Obituaries

Renea Reichenbach of WACO Community School District was the recipient of the Civil Rights/Civil Liberties: Excellence in Teaching Award on Oct. 2, at the Iowa Council for Social Studies Conference.The Iowa Council for Social Studies (ICSS) appreciates Reichenbach's leadership, innovative teaching practices and tireless effort to promote social studies. Her dedication to the students of Iowa and to the teaching ...

CEDAR RAPIDS ? The worst months for deer-involved vehicle collisions have arrived, and state officials caution Iowa motorists to be alert so they can avoid spending big bucks on auto repairs, or worse.Tom Kinney, vice president at Andrews Collision Center, 815 Third St. SE., said the auto repair business sees a noticeable uptick in vehicles after car-deer collisions in the year's later months.Vehicle damage ...

BONN, Germany ? The global agricultural sector can curb emissions immediately and provide a window for fossil fuel-guzzling energy and transport sectors to decarbonise before global warming spirals out of control, the United Nations said on Friday.?In the next few years ... agriculture ... could produce early results immediately, cost-effectively and all over the world,? said René Castro of the U.N.'s Food and ...

LONDON ? A large long-term study on the use of the big-selling weedkiller glyphosate by agricultural workers in the United States has found no firm link between exposure to the pesticide and cancer, scientists said on Thursday.Published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI), the study found there was ?no association between glyphosate?, the main ingredient in Monsanto's popular herbicide ...

Mt. Pleasant Community High School is debuting their fall play ?You Can't Take It With You? on Friday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at Heatilator Performing Arts Center. There will also be performances Saturday, Nov. 11, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 12, at 2 p.m.

LONDON ? The World Health Organization urged farmers on Tuesday to stop using antibiotics to promote growth and prevent disease in healthy animals because the practice fuels dangerous drug-resistant superbug infections in people.Describing a lack of effective antibiotics for humans as ?a security threat? on par with ?a sudden and deadly disease outbreak,? WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The U.S. State Department will stop accepting new applications at midnight on Thursday for a program that allowed children fleeing violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to apply for refugee status in the U.S. before leaving home.President Donald Trump's administration told Congress in September it would phase out the Central American Minors (CAM) program during fiscal year 2018, ...

Healthy Henry County Communities is holding Boot Camp for New Dads, or Daddy Boot Camp, on Saturday, Nov. 11, from 9 a.m. to noon. This class exists 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 grandfathers...

City offices will be closed Friday, Nov. 10, to celebrate Veterans Day. Garbage collection will be on its regular schedule.

WEST BURLINGTON ? A public ground breaking ceremony for Great River Health Systems' new clinic in Keokuk wll be Tuesday, Nov. 21, at noon. The 19,000-square-foot facility will be built in the 3200 block of Main St., between Hampton Inn and Sonic. Estimated to cost $6.85 million, the clinic is expected to open in late 2018.The health system purchased The Keokuk Clinic Jan. 1, 2012. It has grown from a practice ...