Obituaries

Happy birthday!December 16Barb Reinier, Ron Kruse, Holly Pratt, Mary Koble and Linda GouldDecember 17Jamie Dockendorff, Norma Whitaker, Betty Hazen and Bob WoodallDecember 18Darla Kelly, Brandt Duffie and Larry Frost Happy anniversary!December 16Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gould

How do you paint a picture of something you?ve never seen? If you had never seen a waterfall, how would you paint falling water? Or worse, what if you were asked to paint a picture of someone you had never seen?I wonder if it would look like them? Probably not. Nobody knew 500 years before Shakespeare was born where he would be born or what he would do. No one predicted Napoleon?s birth 250 years before he was ...

Joshua Stott, an Iowa State University student, was one of 565 persons attending the 2016 Iowa County Engineers Association Annual Meeting, held at Iowa State University on Dec. 6 to Dec 8.This conference provides the county engineers and their staff members with continuing education in technical areas. It also provides the association with the opportunity to honor its own members for their achievements over the ...

The Mt. Pleasant Area Chamber Alliance (MPACA) would like to invite the public to join them at Truth Foundation, Inc., for their ribbon cutting on Thursday, Dec. 15, at 12:15 p.m.Truth Foundation is located at 304 East Main Street, in New London. Truth Foundation, Inc., is a mental health counseling service provider, with a Biblical foundation, committed to serving the needs of individuals, couples and families ...

DEAR ABBY: I became estranged from my family after I came out as gay. I am okay with it and don't really care anymore. Besides having no family, I have no friends either. I always had difficulty making friends. I'm an introvert and was bullied at school, so I found it more comfortable just hanging out at home alone.I have come to accept the absence of friends as my reality. I try to do fun things by myself, like ...

The Enhance Henry County Community Foundation is planning a celebration ceremony and announcement of their eleventh grant-making awards and results.The event will be held on Dec. 13, in the Union Block building on the north side of the Mt. Pleasant square at 11 a.m. Grant recipients, county elected officials and the general public are encouraged to attend.The Enhance Henry County Community Foundation applied, ...

The Swedesburg Luther League, pictured above, held a bake sale on Sunday, Dec. 4. The money raised from the sale was used to buy toys and clothes for local children and youth in need.

At the Iowa Association of School Boards? (IASB) 71s?t Annual Convention on Nov. 17, WACO Community School District school board members, ?Amy McLaughlin and Barb Shelman, were awarded a certificate for completing ?the Basics of Boardsmanship Certificate.Through IASB?s Basics of Boardsmanship program, McLaughlin and Shelman completed four components focused on essential board learning concepts.IASB Board ...

DEAR ABBY: My husband recently retired from the military. We have four school-aged children. The youngest is starting kindergarten, and I would like to go back to work and use my college degree. My husband wants to take a job overseas, but I would likely be unable to work due to the language barrier.I want to settle down in a location I love, doing a job I love. My husband worked hard to get this job and I hate ...

Economic Development leaders from Southeast Iowa traveled to Chicago this week to participate in the Mid America Competitiveness Conference and Site Selector Forum hosted by the Mid America Economic Development Council (MAEDC).Representatives from Lee, Des Moines, and Henry Counties as well as Southeast Iowa Regional Planning Commission (SEIRPC) participated in the conference as part of the Reciprocal Marketing ...