Obituaries

Leah Hunter, Emorry Davis, Audra Turner, Michal Wohlleber and Bernice VanAmerongen

Hy-Vee, Inc., based in West Des Moines, is voluntarily recalling its frozen Hy-Vee Vegetable Fried Rice and frozen Hy-Vee Chicken Fried Rice products across its eight-state region due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.Listeria monocytogenes is an organism, which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune ...

Your relationships matter to God. He?s called us into a relationship with Him, and He calls us to love. Love Him first, and others next.In marriage, drifting and isolation can occur, and it disrupts almost every marriage at some point. Couples can slowly drift apart, and don?t even recognize what is happening. Isolation is like rust that silently, slowly eats away at your marriage. By the time couples become ...

The Henry County Ministerial Association would like to invite all 2016 graduating seniors and their families to the annual baccalaureate service.The annual service will be held on Wednesday, May 18, 2016, at 7 p.m, in the Mt. Pleasant Community High School Gymnasium. Seniors should meet in the library at 6:30 p.m., prior to the service.All members of the local community are welcome to attend.

Young professionals in Henry County are invited to join Access Mt. Pleasant (AMP) for the new, quarterly Lunch and Learn Series.This quarter's topic will be "Successful Meetings" presented by Sue Prochazka of Southeastern Community College, on Thursday, May 26, from noon to 1 p.m., in the Access Energy Cooperative Meeting Room, located at 1800 West Washington St., in Mt. Pleasant.A free lunch will be provided ...

DEAR ABBY: A couple of months after moving in with my boyfriend, I have realized that his mattress is not a good fit for me. He says that it?s 12 years old and it still has 10 to 15 years left in it.Every day, I wake up with an aching, stiff back. I have a job that keeps me standing all day, so my back pain is starting to affect my performance.I like living with him, but how can I get him to replace the ...

The Mt. Pleasant Kiwanis Club will hold a pancake breakfast on Friday, May 27 and Saturday, May 28, at the Greater Iowa Swap Meet.Pancakes will be served from 6 to 10:15 a.m., both mornings, at the Wright Family Pavilion, in McMillan Park.There is a charge for both adults and children.

The following are upcoming Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center (MVRBC) blood drives in the local area:-Mt. Pleasant Treatment Center will host a community blood drive from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., on Wednesday, May 11, at 1200 E. Washington St., inside the Brown Room.-New London Lions Club will host a blood drive from 1 to 6 p.m., on Wednesday, May 11, at 106 N. Division St., inside New London Community ...

The Community Meal this Wednesday will be hosted by Lincoln Street Baptist Church.They will serve the following menu items:-Chicken and homemade noodles-Mashed potatoes-Corn-Salad-Pudding cake-Peach cobblerAs always, card games will follow the meal.

Chapter NZ of the P.E.O. Sisterhood met for their regular meeting on Monday, April 25, 2016, at the Union Block meeting room with Elizabeth Garrels, Brenda McCabe, Jan Lange, Chris Prellwitz and Christine Broeg serving as co-hostesses.Garrels shared that in June of 1869, five of the P.E.O. founders graduated from Iowa Wesleyan University on the third floor of the Union Block building.President Betty Lowe ...