ELBERON - The Elberon American Legion Auxiliary Unit 226 met Aug. 8 with the meeting opening in usual form.
Secretary Norma Riha called the roll of officers and read the minutes of the July meeting. Treasurer Pat Sauer gave the financial report. Both reports approved as read.
Old business ...
DES MOINES - Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced that the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship will provide $2,000 grants to 137 participating school districts including South Tama County Community School to purchase meat, eggs, produce, dairy and other local foods ...
TOLEDO - As the dew was thick and wet on the morning grass, the usual bunch of partygoers spent their Tuesday morning viewing the county supervisors' meeting. After fifteen minutes of silence, as no one in attendance had anything controversial to say about the single agenda item, County ...
Clean Energy Districts of Iowa, a nonprofit consortium of Energy Districts based in 13 counties in Iowa, is offering free energy coaching to assist farms and small businesses in applying for USDA grant funding for renewable energy or energy efficiency improvement projects.
USDA’s Rural ...
ELBERON — The Elberon Area Women's Club met Aug. 19 with six members present. The meeting was called to order by President Norma Riha. A report of the July meeting was given by Amanda and the financial report by Treasurer Doris Parizek.
They discussed contributing to the Sept. 28 bake sale ...
MARSHALLTOWN – Tama County American Legion and Auxiliary hosted the Tama County Iowa Veterans’ Home Picnic on Aug. 3. The Auxiliary provided meatballs, cheesy potatoes, baked beans, homegrown sweet corn, potato salad, tomatoes, coleslaw and various assortment of pies. We served 110 ...
DES MOINES - The top growers claimed awards in the Fruit Crops contest judged at the 2024 Iowa State Fair.
Complete area results below:
APPLE TRAY DISPLAY
Delicious, Red
2) Louis Beck, Buckingham
Any Other Green/Yellow Varieties
1) Louis Beck, Buckingham
Any Other Red Varieties
1) Louis ...
DES MOINES - Iowans from all over the state gathered to show off crops in the Farm Crops contests judged at the 2024 Iowa State Fair.
Area results are below:
Field Corn
Hybrid Commercial, Single Ear
2) Becky Poduska, Chelsea
Popcorn
Commercial, White Hybrid Popcorn
2) Becky ...
DES MOINES — The best in vegetable variety was honored in the Vegetable Container Display, Vegetable Tray and Painter's Palette competitions, judged at the 2024 Iowa State Fair.
PAINTER’S PALLETTE
Red / Purple
3) Kathy Fattig, Chelsea
Orange / Yellow
2) Kathy Fattig, Chelsea
CHELSEA — Rob Fattig grew up in Chelsea, graduated from South Tama County High School in 2006, went to Central College and spent over a decade in the engineering field with Pella Corp. before returning home about two years ago and switching careers in the process, following in his ...