In the amazing albeit crazy world of "Shedaville," it's time to empty the circular file and share needless and useless information for you. Not needless or useless to me but definitely so for you. But, what the heck, as long as you started reading this column, you might as well as finish ...
Supervisors have taken drastic efforts to bring the road fund expenditures down to a level where it will be possible to stay within the 1948 budget. They are laying off 29 men from the maintenance and construction crews and all construction will stop on county roads. The supervisors will ...
Back to school reminds me of bicycling to school as a kid. For some reason, it seemed cool to use wooden close pins to attach playing cards flapping against the tire spokes so that we could make simulated motorcycle sounds up and down the street. Equally cool was a large headlight on your ...
Alright, I've been putting this off for a while. I went to Chicago a few weeks ago. I know what you're saying, "Hey, Mike, what the chestnuts? You don't travel unless there's a funeral, so who died?" The answer, my friend, is my sister's taste in music. Ya see she got these tickets to a ...
When my dad was living, I shopped for groceries for him in his elder years. He wanted his “3 P’s” to life: Pizza, Pop, and Potato Chips! How could life go on without these? Cleaning out his home when he went to a nursing home, I found an array of untouched foods that boggles the ...
TAMA - The iconic Lincoln Highway bridge here will have to be replaced in some manner, but the exact strategy has yet to be decided. The Tama City Council held a work session last Monday (Aug. 14) to go over the options. The tug-of-war between the 1915 bridge’s status on the National ...
My dad never kicked me, and I appreciate that so much...even though I certainly deserved swift kicks! I knew a man who got mad at his son and booted him right out into the front yard! That’s wrong, but I can think of a time when a brutal, swift kick was warranted to one. They had committed ...
From Kindergarten, and even Pre-School, on through the 12 grade, students will very soon begin another chapter in their lives--as will each teacher. Everyone begins fresh and pretty much on the same level field. It's up to each student to decide how their school year will be and it's also ...
Everyone has a beat in their feet and a song thumping away on their eardrums once in a while; I'm talking music, man. First of all, I don't prescribe to just one genre of music; I've listened to a little of this, a little of that, and it all mixes together. On my custom playlist, Tina ...
Let me begin by saying this is my stomach talking. All opinions I bring to the table with a healthy appetite, and a slight infatuation with this delicious dessert. Can you make me a more versatile treat? As I let my hunger guide me, I think of all the variations of this most delectable ...