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Education

Stewardship Week contest winners

To help spread the message of Stewardship Week, April 29 through May 6, the Tama Soil & Water Conservation District recently held a grocery sack decorating contest in local schools. 271 students created contest entries.This year's theme is "Watersheds: Our Water, Our Home" which ...

Ortiz and Pesina place at WaMaC Art Show

Seniors Noah Fonseca, Joel Medina, Kaylee Chyma, Kacee Hamor, and Victor Pesina, juniors Chaysen Old Bear and Parker Noe, sophomore Selena Ortiz and freshman Molly Savage all represented South Tama High School at the WaMaC art show on Wednesday, April 11."Many of the students are seniors and ...

Toledo Public Library to offer creative arts workshops

The Toledo Public Library will offer special creative arts workshops, titled, Express Yourself, for adults ages 55-plus on four different days in May. Keeley Weeks will teach four workshops; painting, mixed media, card making and jewelry making at the library. The events are free and ...

Tama Library adds gift of magnifier

The Tama Library has received a very nice donation of a magnifier from the family of Jim and Shirley Wacha. This machine allows a person to place an item, book, letter or magazine in it to increase the size of the print to make it possible to read. You could also use it for stamps, coins or ...

New Ellsworth Community College Nursing Club makes an impact

MARSHALLTOWN The Iowa Valley Community College District nursing programs continued to impress this month when Ellsworth Community College nursing faculty and five students told the IVCCD Board of Directors about their new Nursing Club.Last month the District's nursing instructors were ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder Program May 2 at Historical Society

-The Tama County Historical Society will host a program on Laura Ingalls Wilder on Wednesday, May 2, at 7:00pm in the genealogy library, 200 N. Broadway St., Toledo. The program is free and open to the public.Sarah Uthoff, reference librarian and historian, will present a follow-up to her ...

School hirings, contracts before South Tama School Board

The contract and appointment for new South Tama Schools Superintendent Jared Smith was made official and other staff positions and personnel assignments were approved by the South Tama School Board Monday night, April 23 on 5-0 votes. Board members Mandy Lekin, Jackie Dvorak, Alan Kline, Penny ...

Tama County 4-H participates in Monarchs on the Move Challenge

Abby Sandvick and Frances Jackson, Tama County 4-H members are now prepared to help solve a real-world challenge after having participated in the 2018 4-H Ag Innovators Experience (4-H AIE) Monarchs on the Move Challenge in Ames.The 4-H AIE Monarchs on the Move Challenge focuses on the ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder Program May 2 at museum

The Tama County Historical Society will host a program on Laura Ingalls Wilder on Wednesday, May 2, at 7 p.m. in the genealogy library, 200 N. Broadway St., Toledo. The program is free and open to the public.Sarah Uthoff, reference librarian and historian, will present a follow-up to her ...