Obituaries

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News Melinda Huisinga was born the same year as the first Old Threshers Reunion. Not only has she attended almost every Reunion since, but she has volunteered with Old Threshers most of her life, serving more than 2,000 hours since she and her husband, Al Huisinga, relocated back to Mt. Pleasant after retiring in 2009.Although Melinda has volunteered with countless organizations in ...

By Karyn Spory, Mt. Pleasant News In 1909, the Iowa Wesleyan University school newspaper printed a story about a party held at the Harlan-Lincoln House for incoming students. ?Undoubtly the walls of the Harlan House have never resounded with more jolly good cheer and genuine mirth than at this time,? the story read. Anna Villareal, director of the Harlan-Lincoln House hopes to challenge that.Villareal read the ...

By Karyn Spory, Mt. Pleasant News WAYLAND ? The City of Wayland will be purchasing a new police truck and utility truck.During a city council meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 21, members of the city council authorized the purchase of a police truck from Mincer Ford in Columbus Junction, which bid $9,976 plus $207 for cruise control for the patrol vehicle. The city will trade in its current police truck.The city ...

By Karyn Spory, Mt. Pleasant News *Editor's note: This is the first in a four-part series that takes a look at a person's health from head to toe and discusses how one aspect of an individual's health can have lasting affects in other areas. The tooth fairy may only pay $1 a tooth, but Dr. Matthew Wettach, of Family Dental Health Services, says baby teeth are worth so much more when looking at an individual's ...

Rep. Dave Heaton (R-Mt. Pleasant) listens to several members of MPOWER U, including Mt. Pleasant student, Sadie Carrasco, second from the left, during a legislative reception at the Embassy Suites Atrium during Southeast Iowa Days at the capitol.

The Iowa Wesleyan University Chadwick Library in partnership with The Mt. Pleasant Public Library will host a panel discussion on Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's Vietnam War screening on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. in the International Room of the Chadwick Library.Iowan and Former Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, Dr. Kenneth M. Quinn, will be hosted at Iowa Wesleyan University (IW) and be a featured panelist. ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News The men and women walking out of the Henry County Corn Growers Banquet last night left with a challenge: Tell your story.As members of the Iowa Corn Growers Association (ICGA) celebrated the progress of the last year and meditated on the goals set before them in the year to come, board president Ken Helt shared the power in a farmer's testimony.Introduced as a farmer to a ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News With four months left of the fiscal year, Henry County has reached its limit on indigent burials at a time when Supervisors were in discussion to change the ordinance to allow for more.At the Board of Supervisors meeting on Thursday, Feb. 22, funeral home directors were in attendance to voice their concern over the current ordinance, which has caused them to take on the extra ...

Practical Farmers of Iowa invites farmers who sell soybeans into the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) supply chain via its Des Moines plant to participate in a cover crop cost-share program through Unilever's Sustainable Soy program.Practical Farmers is a partner in the program, which provides cost-share funds for planting cover crops and gives participants access to a robust cover crop support system through PFI's ...

The Henry County Conservation Department's maple syrup program has been canceled.The event was scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 24, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Oakland Mills County Park, Top of the Hill area. With the area forecast calling for snow and ice, the program has been canceled. At this time the program has not been rescheduled.