Obituaries

AMES ? Cereal rye is a common feed used in cow-calf production, extending the grazing season, providing early spring forage or as an emergency area for spring calving during inclement weather. Understanding how to grow cereal rye and best use the crop is the focus of a new Iowa State University Extension and Outreach publication titled ?Grazing Opportunities with Cereal Rye? (IBC 0128). The publication is written ...

Gary and Carole Lauger, of Swedesburg, are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on Friday, Sept. 7.They are the parents of Timothy (Leilani) Lauger, of Riverside, Ill., and grandparents of Lucas and Natalie.The Laugers began their celebration with a voyage to the Northern Isles on the Koningsdam, which included the Netherlands, Scotland, Iceland and Norway among the destinations.

WEST BURLINGTON ? A 60-Plus Lifestyle Expo is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Sept. 12, at Westland Mall, 550 S. Gear Ave., West Burlington.The expo is for people who are 60 years old and greater and their caregivers. It will provide information on health care, community services, government agencies, leisure activities, senior housing, volunteer opportunities and more. It is sponsored by Great River ...

Mt. Pleasant Community High School is pleased to announce that the 2018 yearbooks have arrived. All graduate yearbooks can be picked up in the high school office from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m., beginning this Friday, Sept. 7. The latest edition of ?The Target? can also be purchased at this time.

Mary Ann (Mc Keever) McCormick will celebrate her 90th birthday on Saturday, Sept. 8. She was born on Sept. 8, 1928, in Ft. Madison.Cards may be sent to:501 S. Adams St.Mt. Pleasant, IA 52641

NEW LONDON ? On Sunday, Sept. 16, at 1:30 p.m., the Dover Museum will host Caleb Waters as he presents the present the past and the future of the Lake Geode watershed project. Waters is the Lake Geode Watershed Coordinator and fits the role in a unique way. Waters graduated from Mt. Pleasant Community High School and has lived and farmed with his father in Henry County all his life. After majoring in Agriculture ...

Healthy Henry County Communities is pleased to announce that Boot Camp for New Dads, Daddy Boot Camp, will be back on Saturday, Sept. 15, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. to answer all of the questions that expectant fathers have. As an extra incentive, new dads will receive a free car seat if they attend this month. Boot Camp for New Dads uses veteran fathers to orient ?rookie? dads who are expecting their first baby. New ...

The Dover Museum in New London received an exterior update over the summer. The mural by the train depot at the museum, is of Burlington Northern locomotive 5608, which was built in West Burlington in 1936. It was painted by Walldogs Artist, Michael Clark of Aledo, ILL. This project was made possible by funding from the Enhance Henry County Community Foundation, the William M. and Donna J. Hoaglin Foundation, the ...

AMES ? Working parents need access to quality child care so they can go to work knowing their children will be safe and well cared for. However, the people who provide that care often face low wages and lack benefits such as health insurance, sick leave or retirement plans, making it a financial challenge for them to remain in the profession.Providing quality child care is a matter of economics as well as ...

DES MOINES ? For the first time since 2014, the annual conference of the Iowa Forage and Grasslands Council will be held in Des Moines during November. The 2018 Iowa Forage and Grasslands Conference is set for Nov. 26-27 at the Des Moines Airport Holiday Inn. While plans are still being finalized, two featured speakers are sure to draw attention of IFGC members and others interested in forage, grazing and ...