Obituaries

Polishville Community Center will have two dances and one lunch and bingo event in July.The first dance is scheduled for July 10, with Jerry Beauchamp, of Eldora, providing the music. Food will be sold beginning at 4:30 p.m., and dancing will be from 6 to 9 p.m.The lunch and bingo will be July 13. Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., with bingo starting at 12:30 p.m. Plans are for the lunch and ...

The following are the names of the Mt. Pleasant Middle School students named to the second semester 2015-2016 honor roll:6th gradePrincipal Scholars (4.0)Tyler Gardner, Jenna Gilmore and Tina TranA Honor Roll (3.5 to 3.99)Melissa Alexander, Jessi Andrew, Bailey Bain, Kole Becker, Zoe Bentler, Abigail Blint, Payton Boughner, Katarina Carlson, Eneida Carrillo, Dalton Church, Tristen Davis, Christopher Dyar, ...

Deb Sinclair, delegate from Chapter Original A; Betty Lowe, delegate from Chapter NZ; and Janice Jones, delegate from Chapter OX attended the 124th Convention of Iowa State Chapter P.E.O. Sisterhood held June 4 and June 5, in Des Moines.With the theme, ?Wild About P.E.O.?, Kathy Wilke, Chapter DS, Odebolt, presided over the 700 delegates and visitors.Attendees participated in workshops and heard from recipients ...

Henry County Health Center's Diabetes Team will be offering a Diabetes Review Course on Thursday, July 14, 2016.The class will be conducted from 1 to 3 p.m., and will be held in the Health Education Center at HCHC. On the day of the class, register at the HCHC Registration Desk before proceeding to the Health Education Center.Call the HCHC Diabetes Education Center, at 319-385-6518 by noon on July 13 to sign ...

DEAR ABBY: I have fought obesity all of my adult life, and my weight has yo-yoed over the years. My problem is, when I go to the doctor's office and I am taken to the exam area, the scale is right out in the open where other patients come and go as well as all the office personnel.Mind you, I don't care if I am weighed in the presence of people walking around - if they don't peek. However, when the medical ...

Warren Barton and Charlie Kramer is sponsoring a fish fry in support of the Salem Veterans Memorial on Saturday, July 9, 2016.The fish fry will be held from 4:30 to 7 p.m., at Salem Park.Free-will donations will be accepted and music will be performed by The Troubadors. Those wishing to attend should bring their own lawn chairs.

Our largest plants, trees, anchor our landscapes and provide countless benefits, both practical and aesthetic. So we have to feel concerned when problems show up in those all-important plants.Anyone whose tree plantings include conifers may have trouble with spruce spider mites. They do feed on all conifers but seem especially active on Colorado blue spruce, Black Hills blue spruce, dwarf Alberta spruce, and ...

DEAR ABBY: I live with my parents and am not fond of children. My father volunteers me to babysit my nieces while they are right in front of us and before I have a chance to discuss anything. If I stand up for myself and say no, my father lays a guilt trip on me and tells the kids that their aunt is ?being mean.?I'm grateful that my parents took me in after I graduated from university, which has allowed me to ...

Central College student, Zachary May, of Mt. Pleasant, presented research during Central's Undergraduate Research Symposium this spring. The event provided more than 200 students with the opportunity to showcase their research and projects in a variety of disciplines.May participated in the Exercise Physiology Lab symposium session with the presentation, "Effect of Carbohydrate Ingestion on Power Output during a ...

Madysinn Hood, daughter of Carrie Hobbs and Mark Crull; Brianne Potts, daughter of Michael and Jackie Potts, of Mt. Pleasant; and Megan Myers, daughter of Michael and Tracy Myers, of Burlington, were named to the Dean?s List at Simpson College, in Indianola for the spring semester.To be named to the Dean?s List, a student must have a GPA of 3.70 to 3.99.