In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells a story about a king who commends his subjects for helping him when he was hungry, thirsty, without clothes, in prison or sick. The subjects professed ignorance about ever having done these things for him but the king replied "when you helped the least ...
About 5 decades ago, I took a famous, national inventory in college to see where my interests lie. Many of the findings shocked me while others made sense.It told me to avoid truck driving, interior designing, art teaching and home economics! I don't contest the latter three, but I do like ...
Dear Editor,Everyone is aware that November 5 is Election day. Along with the officials we'll be voting for is another item on the ballot about which I'd like to share some information. The ballot question is whether Iowa Valley Community College should be able to issue $32 million in school ...
Market Report for October 11, 2019The chill was definitely in the air this Friday night of the Toledo Farmers' Market.A few vendors choose to stay home and seven choose to set up to sell those items before the end of the season.Kristi brought cookies, kolaches, twisty, cinnamon rolls, pecan ...
To continue with the rest of this years events at the Wieting Theatre, they are:Nov. 22 - Dec. 8- movie Frozen 2 with a pancake or waffle breakfast one of the Saturdays with a matineeNov. 23 Holiday Explosion Dinner, soup supper before and after the paradeNov. 24- Snow- Seymour Christmas for ...
Cities love big, flashy, expensive projects and miles of infrastructure. But Charles L. Marohn, Jr., says this approach is a recipe for financial insolvency. Here, he explains why making small, incremental investments in struggling neighborhoods yields a far better payoff.In America, it's ...
Fifty-three years ago, I was a high school kid in southern Iowa who knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life: I wanted to be a journalist.The first step on that journey occurred when I walked into the offices of the Bloomfield Democrat and introduced myself to Gary Spurgeon. He was the ...
In many ways, Tama, Iowa, population 2,775, is like many other similar-sized towns around the Midwest. For example, it has its fair share of challenges, from attracting and maintaining retail businesses downtown, to keeping up with an aging housing stock as values decrease and its population ...
As we begin this great month, we all enjoy the superb fall colors that surround us before we head into the big holidays and the cold, frigid, snowy phenomenon called winter. But for now we have October, a most beautiful month of the year that includes so many treasures.First of all, October is ...
Why do we do what we do? I noticed a child the other day sucking on their thumb; but I've seen others the same age, sucking on other fingers. One child was sucking on all of them. What's that about, anyway?Why do some people write with their right hand? I write with my left. Since we know ...