Obituaries

With cooler evenings on the horizon, warm meals and comfort food start to make a comeback this time of year.With jam packed schedules and school activities in the evenings, it can be difficult to find the time to make a healthy meal at home. This will often lead to fast food, take out, and more easy dinners on the go.Unfortunately, this can also add up to a lot of extra money and calories. In this month's ...

WEST BURLINGTON ? Great River Friends is sponsoring its last jewelry fair of the year from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18, and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29 and Friday, Oct. 20, in the Mercy Plaza lobby in West Burlington. Thousands of items from Masquerade jewelry will be available for purchase.

Henry County Health Center invites all individuals with a chronic disease to join them for a free program ?Coffee with Katie? on Thursday, Oct. 26, from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. This will be held in the Diabetes Education Center, located in Suite 25 at HCHC. RSVP by Oct. 25 to reserve a seat.Join Katie Westphal, RN, BSN, for a social hour, fresh coffee and fruit, plus a discussion on the topic of ?Living Well with ...

By Vanessa Miller, The Gazette AMES ? Iowa State University's standing in the prestigious, invitation-only Association of American Universities is not secure, and it needs to be, according to the second of four finalists seeking to become the university's 16th president.Pamela Whitten, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Georgia in Athens, on Tuesday laid out goals she ...

The family of Kenny Clark, of Wayland, invite you to celebrate with him on his 80th birthday. The celebration will be held Sunday, Oct. 22, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Wayland City Hall. Cake and refreshments will be served.The event is being hosted by Clark's children, Michelle (Heath) Boone, Tammy (David) Erwin, and Cathy (Randy) Lee, along with his grandchildren. Cards are welcome but no gifts. Your presence will ...

The Hillsboro Fire and Rescue Department's Annual Soup Supper is Saturday, Oct. 21, at the Hillsboro Community Center. This event is to support the fire department's needs so they can better assist the community.Soup will be served from 5 to 7 p.m. Bingo with prizes will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Some of the soups on the menu will be regular chili, hot chili, oyster, broccoli cheese and possibly potato with ham. A ...

Henry County Health Center will be implementing a new co-payment process for Emergency Department patients. Beginning Nov. 1, all Emergency Department patients will be asked for a co-payment after seeing the Emergency Department physician.When a patient checks into the Emergency Department and the physician completes the medical screening, registration staff will gather and verify the patient's insurance and ...

Before Miriam Alarcon Avila moved to the United States from Mexico 15 years ago, she had never heard of pumpkin carving.Now the artist looks forward to fall as a time when she can spend hours creating intricately decorated gourds.Alarcon Avila, who lives in Tiffin, is also a photographer and is currently working on the Luchadores project, an effort to document the lives of Latino immigrants in Iowa through ...

Factory farming has a stranglehold on rural Iowa, but can that grip be broken? Celebrated syndicated columnist Alan Guebert will dive into the realities and the possibilities during the JFAN annual meeting Breaking the Grip of Corporate Agriculture on Rural Iowa on Thursday, Oct. 19 at 7:15 p.m. at the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center, 200 N. Main Street, Fairfield.Penned an ?agricultural insider? by Civil ...

Members of Original A PEO were given a lesson in how to ?stop the bleeding? during their regular meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 5, at the Henry County Health Center.The program was titled ?Department of Homeland Security ? Stop the Bleed Campaign.? Members found the program timely and important in light of the Las Vegas mass shooting that left 58 people dead and over 500 injured.The program was presented by ...