Mt. Pleasant News

By Karyn Spory, Mt. Pleasant News The traffic from Washington Street can be heard rumbling by as Timber Roden, membership and communications director at the Mt. Pleasant Chamber Alliance takes a seat at her desk. After almost two months in the position, Roden still is excited about the challenges and professional development that lay ahead.Roden, a native of the Lake of the Ozarks, Mo., has been in the Mt. ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News In keeping with HIPAA standards, the Henry County Board of Supervisors signed a business associate agreement with Iowa County Technology Services during their meeting on Tuesday, June 19.Coordinator of Disability Services Sarah Berndt said that the Iowa State Association of Counties wants counties using Iowa County Technology Services (ICTS) to have a business associate ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News Iowa Wesleyan University is launching a new Bachelor of Social Work degree this fall.Iowa Wesleyan University (IW) President Steve Titus said the university is responding to the needs of the region in creating the Social Work degree, which has been three years in the making. The proposal was unanimously approved by IW's board of trustees this past spring.?I can't express ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News Mt. Pleasant resident Al Huisinga was named the first Ambassador of the Year by the Mt. Pleasant Area Chamber Alliance with a tree planted in his honor on the campus of Iowa Wesleyan University.The distinction of Ambassador of the Year was conceptualized by Chamber Executive Vice President Kristi Ray in an effort to encourage Chamber ambassadors to attend ribbon cuttings and ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News Administrators at Henry County Health Center are working on a proposal by July 31 to convert patient information to an electronic health record.A Henry County Health Center (HCHC) task force identified Cerner Electronic Health Record as the best option to automate health records ? and they want to partner with Great River Health Systems in West Burlington to do so.?The way to ...

By Gretchen Teske, Mt. Pleasant News NEW LONDON ? The New London school board has begun preparations for the new school year, including constuction projects at Clarke Elememtary school and hiring several new staff members.Several classrooms at the elementary school are receiving a makeover. Volunteers have been hard at work painting the steel beams in the ceiling as well as the walls in the classrooms to ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News Keiran Luitjens strolled onto the Swedesburg Parish Hall lawn from Olds United Church of Christ with his dog Mittens panting in his arms.While the Pomeranian-shiatzu mix held her own for the majority of the two-mile hike from Olds to Swedesburg during the Swedesburg-Olds Fun Day on Saturday, June 16, it was the last quarter of the mile when the 95-degree heat exhausted her and ...

Adam Creager welcomes the community to the first Community Band Concert of the summer Thursday, June 14. Creager said he is very proud of the community band, with 41 people turning up to the first practice. The Community Band performs in Central Park every Thursday.

Monie Hayes talks about the chair she decorated with Ed Kropa during ?Chair-ish the Arts? on Thursday, June 14 in Central Park. Hayes' chair was theatre themed, painted to draw awareness to the National Society for Preservation of Art, Folk and Repertoire Theatre.

By John Butters, Mt. Pleasant News George Lutz, founder of America's Run for the Fallen, is blazing a memory trail across the United States.Lutz, who lives in Virginia, is leading a rotating team of voluntary runners, military and civilian, in a 6,000 mile trek across the U.S. in five months. The run started in April at Fort Irwin, Calif., and will end in August at Arlington National Cemetery. On Wednesday ...

Every week, the Mt. Pleasant News will feature a Henry County resident in a profile snapshot. The questions will appear in bold.This week's 'Friend on the Front Page' is Emily Anderson, whom you may know from Sanity Coffee House.Are you originally from Mt. Pleasant? If not, what brought you here? I live in Wayland and am originally from there.What is your favorite part of living there? The close knit community ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News The City Development Board will pay a $384 special sewer assessment for the Community Building in unincorporated Mt. Union.Henry County Auditor Shelly Barber approached the Development Board a couple weeks ago requesting they pay the special assessment for the community building as the building still is legally owned by the city of Mt. Union, despite it being unincorporated. ...