Mt. Pleasant News

By Brooks Taylor, Mt. Pleasant News A road trip to Mt. Union is on the docket for county supervisors in the near future.?We have to have a meeting in Mt. Union to give them direction on what will happen, services, etc.,? noted Marc Lindeen, supervisor chairman, at Thursday?s regular meeting.Mt. Union was granted permission March 8 by the State of Iowa City Development Board to unincorporate. By granting ...

Great River Health Systems? summer Junior Volunteen Program for youth 16 (by June 1) to 18 years old is scheduled from Monday, June 12 to Friday, Aug. 4.The eight-week program provides opportunities to explore health care careers, gain work experience and fulfill volunteer requirements for school and service projects.Positions for Junior Volunteens are available at Great River Medical Center and Great River ...

Learn tips for eating healthy on a budget at the next community wellness workshop on Tuesday, April 4, at 5:30 p.m., in the Fellowship Cup community room.Melissa Boncher, Mt. Pleasant Hy-Vee Dietitian, will discuss tips to save money on your grocery bill and provide recipes that are both easy and inexpensive.Bring the kids for a ?Kids in the Kitchen? lesson at the same time with Erin Heaton from Iowa State ...

By Brooks Taylor, Mt. Pleasant News WAYLAND ? Open enrollees are flooding into the WACO Community School District.Flooding may be too strong a term, but the WACO School Board approved 21 enrollments into the district and five open enrollments to other districts Monday night during its regular monthly meeting.Two of the open enrollments into the district are for the current school year while the other 19 are ...

By Karyn Spory, Mt. Pleasant News It was an easy decision for Joy Lapp?s Social Justice and Service class to decide what their next cause was going to be.When the six Iowa Wesleyan students learned the governor?s proposed budget included plans to cut $3 million from victim-services funding, which helps fund programs that assist sexual assault and domestic violence victims, they knew they needed to do something....

Dairy Queen may have been open for awhile now, but the warm weather earlier this week made it the perfect day for a sweet ice cream cone.

By Brooks Taylor, Mt. Pleasant News Henry County Emergency Management?s large-scale search-and-rescue training exercise planned for Friday night and Saturday at Oakland Mills has been postponed, according to Walt Jackson, county emergency management director.Jackson made the decision yesterday to pull the plug after talking to National Weather Service meteorologists.?I was told that we are supposed to have ...

By Brooks Taylor, Mt. Pleasant News Henry County supervisors figuratively took a stroll on the sidewalks of Mt. Union Tuesday.Joe Buffington, county director of planning and zoning, visited with the board during its regular meeting about liability concerns over Mt. Union sidewalks, now that the community has become unincorporated.Buffington said there are about 7,700 feet of sidewalks in Mt. Union and as of ...

The second of the last Legislative Breakfast series, hosted by the Mt. Pleasant Area Chamber Alliance, will be held on Saturday, March 25.Elected state officials, Sen. Rich Taylor (D-Mt. Pleasant) and Rep. Dave Heaton (R-Mt. Pleasant) will be joined by Sen. Rob Hogg (D-Cedar Rapids) and Jack Hedgecock, general manager of the Mt. Pleasant Municipal Utilities as they discuss water quality.Emery Styron will be the ...

The Mt. Pleasant Utilities Office will be closed on Tuesday, March 28, from 11:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m., for Regulatory Safety Training.In the event of an emergency, call 319-385-2121.

By Christinia Crippes, WCF Courier WATERLOO ? Three members of Americans for Democratic Action Iowa delivered a message to U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley?s Waterloo office Monday, asking the Republican to oppose Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.ADA Iowa, a member of the Why Courts Matter coalition, presented a petition with more than 1,500 signatures asking Grassley and U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, to oppose ...

By Brooks Taylor, Mt. Pleasant News During his five-plus years as the Henry County Emergency Management Director, Walt Jackson has organized many training exercises for county law enforcement agencies, fire departments and rescue teams.But some of those would pale in comparison to what Jackson is planning for this Friday and Saturday (March 24-25).Actually, Jackson will be having two similar, but yet different...