Obituaries

Bi-weekly column by Hy-vee dietitian, Melissa Boncher.

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By Jeff McPheron, Trenton United Methodist Church It has been said that we should remember to be patient and kind with each other because everyone has difficulties. Some of the difficulties come one at a time, and some of them come in groups. Some we can work through pretty quickly, but others come to linger. Simply moving through a day, and primarily aware of our own needs, we may not know who is successfully ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News I remember when I was just nine or 10 years old and my parents bought our first family computer.We had a Gateway, one of the more popular computer brands at the time. It had crummy dial-up internet that got disconnected every time you got a phone call, and all we really did for the first few months was take turns playing one of the three or four popular computer games that ...

To the editor:Does anyone in Mt. Pleasant know there was a basketball team that was undefeated this year? The eighth-grade boys? C team was.The Mt. Pleasant News is a local paper and yet we see no result in the paper showing the middle school results. We don?t need a full page write-up, but it would be nice to see the scores. The A and B teams also had outstanding seasons, again no mention.The coaches, Tim ...

By State Sen. Rich TaylorIowa, like the rest of the nation, is aging.As of 2010, Iowa ranked seventh in the nation -- behind such states as Florida -- for the percentage of our state?s population that is 60 or older. Iowa ranks third for the share of our population aged 85 or older. Between 2000 and 2010, the share of Iowa?s older residents increased from 18.9 percent to 20.4 percent. (The federal Older ...

DEAR ABBY: I am recently divorced and now seeing a wonderful woman who is pretty much everything I was looking for except for a couple of issues, which concern going out to eat - which we do often. Not once has she offered to pay for a meal.I make good money, but she is not financially strapped by any means. While I can live with her not paying, what annoys me is she rarely says thank you after a dinner date. ...

To the editor:Wow! Nine former members of the MPCSD Board of Directors serve a combination of 101 years on the board - remarkable and commendable. Thank you for serving.However, based on their proposal, I cannot for several reasons support their effort to encourage voters to vote ?no not now? on the MPCSD Bond Issue Sept. 9, 2014.My reasons being:If ?no not now,? when do they propose our schools be brought up ...

By Mary Zachmeyer Men are blessed with pockets, deep, dark pockets ? hip pockets, back pockets, bib overall pockets, even shirt pockets. Men even have secret pockets made of acetate fabric hidden near their hearts. The rest of us humans carry PURSES: round purses, sequined purses, strawberry-shaped purses, midget purses. Every size, shape, color, design and fabric that a woman could desire crouch on shelves in ...

By STEPH TAHTINENMt. Pleasant NewsAs I was trying to figure out what I was going to write about for this week?s column, my mind immediately went to Mother?s Day. However, after being told by my intended subject that she did not want to be featured in my column, I had to come up with something different.So then I started to think about Mother?s Day itself, and I came to the conclusion that it is ridiculous to ...