Rep. Dave Heaton (R-Mt. Pleasant) listens to several members of MPOWER U, including Mt. Pleasant student, Sadie Carrasco, second from the left, during a legislative reception at the Embassy Suites Atrium during Southeast Iowa Days at the capitol.
The Iowa Wesleyan University Chadwick Library in partnership with The Mt. Pleasant Public Library will host a panel discussion on Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's Vietnam War screening on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. in the International Room of the Chadwick Library.Iowan and Former Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, Dr. Kenneth M. Quinn, will be hosted at Iowa Wesleyan University (IW) and be a featured panelist. ...
By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News The men and women walking out of the Henry County Corn Growers Banquet last night left with a challenge: Tell your story.As members of the Iowa Corn Growers Association (ICGA) celebrated the progress of the last year and meditated on the goals set before them in the year to come, board president Ken Helt shared the power in a farmer's testimony.Introduced as a farmer to a ...
By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News With four months left of the fiscal year, Henry County has reached its limit on indigent burials at a time when Supervisors were in discussion to change the ordinance to allow for more.At the Board of Supervisors meeting on Thursday, Feb. 22, funeral home directors were in attendance to voice their concern over the current ordinance, which has caused them to take on the extra ...
After finishing their mural, the Scouts of Troop 1077 continued their art lesson by painting pictures of their emotions.
Practical Farmers of Iowa invites farmers who sell soybeans into the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) supply chain via its Des Moines plant to participate in a cover crop cost-share program through Unilever's Sustainable Soy program.Practical Farmers is a partner in the program, which provides cost-share funds for planting cover crops and gives participants access to a robust cover crop support system through PFI's ...
The Henry County Conservation Department's maple syrup program has been canceled.The event was scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 24, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Oakland Mills County Park, Top of the Hill area. With the area forecast calling for snow and ice, the program has been canceled. At this time the program has not been rescheduled.
Pekin head football coach Bud Blakely knew his team could compete with anyone in the state going into their first round matchup at undefeated Hudson Friday night, all they had to do was play their ballgame.Unfortunately for the Panthers, everything went the home team's way in a 35-0 victory fueled by five touchdowns from the Pirates' backfield. The tandem included juniors Christian Seres who had 27 carries for ...
Saturday afternoon at the 2017 state cross country meet in Fort Dodge, Ashley Bloomquist did herself and the town of Fairfield proud as she put on a tremendous performance, shaving almost 33 seconds off her qualifying time from less than two weeks ago.On Oct. 19 at Pella, Bloomquist ran 20:06.6 which qualified her as the third place finisher from that region. Saturday in Fort Dodge, the junior's time improved to ...
The Fairfield Trojans swam at the regional meet Saturday in Indianola, finishing eighth place overall with 51 points.Individual and relay results from the Trojans' events were as follows: 50 yard freestyle17th Blair Bowman 28.40 and 19th Danielle Elliott 28.69 100 yard freestyle14th Danielle Elliott 1:04.36 200 yard freestyle relay8th Tessa Seibert-Erica Olson-Blair Bowman-Danielle Elliott 2:01.99 100 ...
The Girl Scouts Brownie Troop 1077 ran back and forth between tables during their troop meeting as they hurriedly chose paint colors to splatter on their collective mural.The second- and third-graders had to hurry and finish because the mural will be their calling card, the masterpiece that will draw customers to their cookie booth outside of Hy-Vee in Mt. Pleasant on Sunday, Feb. 25, from 1 to 5 p.m.This kicks ...
Cadettes Troop 9565 talked about their strategies for cookie selling during their meeting on Thursday, Feb. 15. As veteran cookie sellers, they enjoyed working with the younger Troops and teaching them the ropes of cookie selling during a Cookie Rally in January.
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