Obituaries

The annual Midsummer Fest was celebrated at the Swedesburg Parish Hall in Swedesburg on June 22. The families of Swedish immigrants Selma Anderson (Mrs. Victor Anderson) and her brother Manfred Anderson were chosen to carry and place the majstång (maypole) with its decorative flowers. The family history was read Dean Anderson of New London and Edna Scully of Ottumwa, son and daughter of Manfred Anderson, with ...

On Monday, June 20, the Hillsboro Public Library Summer Reading Program ?Open a Book, Open the World? began with a presentation from Janis Kelsick, who shared her adventures as an illustrator.Kelsick, who lives in rural Hillsboro, illustrated the book Annabelle?s Amazing Discovery, written by Ron Deen, who at the time was a Ft. Madison prison guard. She described her adventure as an illustrator as something ...

Jeanine Thurston, left, management for Park View Apartments in West Point, and Harold Neuweg, board president, display an award from USDA Rural Development for providing quality housing services to their residents since 1981.Park View Apartments, managed by Liberty Realty, opened in 1981 and provides housing for the elderly, persons with disabilities and their families.USDA Rural Development currently ...

Mt. Pleasant?s Community Band will offer a benefit concert at 7 p.m. tonight in Central Park.During the final two concerts (June 30 and July 7), a collection will be taken to support and rebuild the music and band programs in the Joplin, Mo., School District. The band?s hope is to provide some assistance to the students, teachers and community members of Joplin so they can continue to have the opportunity for ...

Jesse Aynes of Mt. Pleasant has been named to the 2011 spring semester dean's list at Loyola University Chicago. Aynes is majoring in communication and marketing. He is the son of Shari Phipps and the grandson of Peggy Aynes and Raymond Aynes.

Tickets are now on sale for the Des Moines County Heritage Society?s next series of cabaret performances in the Bart Howard Room, Burlington. Mary Carrick and Todd Brooks will bring their Broadway-infused show, ?Songs with a Twist of Lime? to the cabaret room for a two-night engagement, Friday, July 15 and Saturday, July 16. Both shows are at 8 p.m.Carrick, now based in Omaha, Neb., is the daughter of Dave and ...

The University of Iowa has announced its dean?s list for the 2011 spring semester. All students named to the dean's list carried at least 12 graded hours during the semester.A minimum 3.5 grade-point average (based on a 4.0 scale) for current work is required for inclusion on the dean's list in the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nursing, Business Administration and Engineering. College of Pharmacy ...

DEAR ABBY: My wife had an unhappy five-year marriage to her high school boyfriend. They divorced when their son, "Noah," was 20 months old. Then she met me, and we have been married for 34 happy years.I adopted Noah with the consent of his birth father, who also remarried and had a family. My wife and I added a daughter to ours.I was aware that Noah had re-established contact with his birth father and ...

By STEPH TAHTINENMt. Pleasant NewsBefore the managed services contract with Solutions Inc., expires on July 1, the board of supervisors will need to decide whether or not to renew the contract, potentially saving the county $21,000.?I don?t see the benefit of paying them to do the managed services,? said Derek Wellington, who spoke to the board of supervisors about the contract on Thursday. The cost of ...

By ASHLEE STALLINGAMt. Pleasant NewsMt. Pleasant Christian School and FCOC will be taking a group of about 30 volunteers down to Joplin to aid in the relief efforts in the aftermath of the tornados that devastated the area.The group, made up of MPCS high school students, alumni, and faculty as well as members of FCOC and its pastor, leaves Sunday afternoon, June 26, and returns on June 29.According to ...