Obituaries

CEDAR RAPIDS ? Emily Stochl and Jessie Lowe are good at sharing.It makes sense then that the two created and now administer the Cedar Rapids (Central) Buy Nothing group on Facebook.The group's mission is simple: Exchange items with your neighbors. Give things away without asking for anything in return.Individuals make a request to join the Facebook group. Then Stochl and Lowe confirm they are within the ...

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Henry County office will host an Ornamental and Turf grass Continuing Instruction Course (CIC) for commercial pesticide applicators on Wednesday, Nov. 8. The program provided by the ISU Extension and Outreach Pesticide Safety Education Program (PSEP) can be seen at office locations across Iowa.The local attendance site for the Nov. 8 CIC is the Henry County Extension ...

The Mt. Pleasant Police Department is participating in National RX Collection Day sponsored by the Drug Enforcement Administration.The police department will be accepting unused or expired prescription drugs or over the counter medications from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28.Drugs can be accepted in their original containers. The labels do not need to be removed for disposal.Veterinary drugs, both ...

First Presbyterian Church is hosting the community meal this week. The meal includes brat patties on a bun, coleslaw, baked beans and a pumpkin dessert.

NEW YORK ? Target Corp said on Monday it would start free shipping beginning in November and that most of its holiday assortment had been priced at under $15, as the retailer gets ready to take on Amazon.com and Wal-Mart in the most crucial shopping season of the year.Target, which has promised about 1,700 holiday products including ?Star Wars,? LEGO and Netflix merchandise and hundreds of $1 stocking stuffers, ...

Seven Mt. Pleasant Community High School music students have been chosen to the 2017 All-State Choir. Meagan Sutherland, Wyatt Carlston, Charles Greene, Paige Stater, Cara Canby, Callie DePriest and Lucas Lee were selected based on auditions held Saturday, Oct. 21, at Fairfield High School.They will join other selectees at the All-State Music Festival November 16-18 in Ames. The 71st All-State Festival Concert ...

The Henry County Retired School Personnel Association members met at the MD Orthopaedics in Wayland for a very educating video and tour of their business on Wednesday, Oct. 11.The group then traveled to Winfield for lunch and a meeting held at El Oasis. At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 1, they will meet at Jumbo Buffet for a Veterans Day presentation by Pat Coen.

IOWA CITY ? On the second floor at the Iowa City Public Library, a laminated sign in the shape of a police badge shares the story of how a 29-year-old man died in 1996 after the woman he dated hired someone to shoot him.Two silhouettes, painted red, hold up other signs recounting how an Iowa City mother and her four children ? ages 3 to 10 ? were killed by the woman's husband, who died by suicide shortly after ...

Friends of Henry County Health Center invites the public to attend the Annual Fall Soup Supper on Friday, Nov. 3, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church in Mt. Pleasant. The event is sponsored by Friends of HCHC, and proceeds from the Soup Supper benefit the Friends of HCHC Health Scholarship Fund.The evening's menu offers chili soup, cream of potato with bacon soup, or baked potato bar, relish, crackers, ...

Four Mt. Pleasant Community School District music students have been chosen for the 2017 Opus Honor Choir, with two others named as alternates.Andrew Rauenbuehler, an 8th-grader, was picked for the 7th-8th grade boys choir, and Natalie McCormick, a 6th-grader, was selected to the 5th-6th grade mixed choir. Named to the 9th grade choir were Katie McCormick and Evelyn Nygren, with Kionna Parrish and Drake Snavely ...