Mt. Pleasant News

The Mt. Pleasant Area Chamber Alliance would like to invite all area residents to Innovairre for their open house on Tuesday, March 21, 2017, at 4 p.m.Innovairre?s Chief Operating Officer, Mark Schulhof, will be at the event to discuss the future outlook of Innoviarre and Mt. Pleasant with their new technology. With over 450 employees, Mt. Pleasant Innovairre serves more than 500 charities and organizations, ...

Every year in February or March, we have another chance to start over, to renew our effort at self-discipline. Another chance because the most popular first chance is related to New Year?s resolutions. The new calendar provides an arbitrary incentive to make personal changes in habits and attitudes. Well, if those didn?t stick, we just began another season of possibility March 1. We are in the season of Lent, the ...

The date has been set for the first Women in Agriculture Conference to be held at the Washington County Fairgrounds on March 25, 2017, at 8:30 a.m.The event is being hosted by Washington County Extension and Outreach, along with the Washington Women in Agriculture Advisory Board. The conference is geared towards giving women of all ages the tools to cultivate, plant, and grow in their chosen agricultural ...

MARCH 9Joanne Hunsaker and Rosemary Peck

Mt. Pleasant resident Mike Breese, RN, BSN, with HCI Hospice Care Services, has been selected as one of 100 Great Iowa Nurses of 2017 for his outstanding dedication to the nursing field, his patients and to the nurses whom he mentors.Breese, along with the other honorees will be recognized at the group?s 13th annual statewide event held in May to coincide with National Nurses Week. The 100 Great Iowa Nurses ...

MARCH 6DeeAnn PattersonJordon Hervey

MARCH 3John Geiger, Natalie Adam, Danika Roth, Chris Heaton and Amy WeaverMARCH 4NoneMARCH 5Scott Giberson

From there Elisha went up to Bethel?some youths came out of the town and jeered him, ?Go on up, you baldhead! Go on up, you baldhead!? Elisha?called down a curse on them in the name of Yahweh. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled 42 of the youths?Elisha went on to Mount Carmel and ?Samaria. -2 Kings 2:23-25Jesus said that all of what we call the ?Old Testament? points to him (Luke 24:25-27, 44-47). In ...

Unusually mild temperatures through much of February sparked worries among gardeners. While we know that spring-flowering bulbs such as snowdrops and crocuses are very hardy, what about our trees that are budding very early?Iowa State University horticulturists assure us that native species, at least, will be fine. In some cases, what a close observer is spotting is not a leaf bud. Rather, it is a fairly ...

The New London High School Vocal Music Department will present the musical comedy, ?Grease? on Friday and Saturday, March 3 and March 4, at 7 p.m., in the New London High School auditorium.Proceeds benefit future productions of the music department.New London?s production of ?Grease? includes a cast of over 30 students and features set design and choreography developed by the students themselves. A live pit ...

Mt. Pleasant Central Site has announced its schedule for bulk garbage days.The site will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., on March 31, April 28, Sept. 29, and Oct. 27.The site will also be open from 8 a.m. to noon, on April 1, April 29, Sept. 30 and Oct. 28.Mattresses, furniture, rolled up carpet and pads, and other bulky household items will be accepted on those dates only.Items normally accepted, such as ...

Above, Jason Bender, President of Lomont Molding LLC, signs the contract for a 100? x 250? Lomont building expansion in Mt. Pleasant. The expansion will include shipping and receiving docks, and provide additional space for finished goods storage.