Obituaries

With winter seemingly behind us (bar a surprise late March or early storm), area residents are taking advantage to rid their vehicles of winter grime, salt and dirt. Local car washes have been very busy as they were during the mild month of February. Here, a motorist takes advantage of a recent nice day to spring clean his car.

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 ...

The Pekin boys? and girls? track teams continued their strong seasons Thursday at the state qualifying district meet in Highland.Both teams finished in their first overall and will be sending multiple individuals to the state meet in Des Moines Thursday. Just like in Class 3A, the Class 1A individuals who finished first or second in an event automatically qualified for the state meet.Gwynne Wright continued her ...

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 ...