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Child and Adult Care Food Program guidelines for school lunch and breakfast programs

The Riverview Early Childhood Center participates as a sponsor of the Child and Adult Care Food Program. Through this program, meals are provided without regard to race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), age, or disability. Child care participants who are members of FIP or SNAP households or who are Head Start participants are automatically eligible to receive free meals. Adult care participants who are members of SNAP households who are SSI or Medicaid participants are automatically eligible to receive free meal benefits. Meals are ...

Get a sneak peek at The Roommate Sunday

Join the Webster City Community Theatre for a Readers Theatre preview of The Roommate by Jen Silverman.' This will be held on Sunday, at 3 p.m. at Webster City Community Theatre,located at 1001 Willson Avenue in Webster City. Whether you enjoy performing on stage, working behind the scenes or simply reading a fun script, all are welcome to join in the fun and laughter. Bring a snack to share and your own beverage, settle in and enjoy an afternoon of theatre. Director Anne Blankenship will lead the reading of this funny, surprising and unconventional story of friendship and ...

Turning Back the Pages of Time

1926/100 years ago Zitterell Company gets power plant contract The W.J. Zitterell company of this city has just been awarded a contract for the construction of a $150,000 power plant at Sibley for the Northwest Light and Power company of Cedar Rapids. This job, together with others for this same company are under construction by the Zitterell company will make a total of some $400,000 worth of work the Webster City company will do for this concern this year. The Zitterell company at the present time has work under construction at Perry, Boone, Correctionville and Peterson, Iowa and ...

Kantor Avenue bridge closed indefinitely

The Hamilton County Supervisors once more had to consider the subject of bridges during their bi-monthly meeting held yesterday. Hamilton County Engineer, Ryan Weidemann talked about the closure of the Kantor Avenue bridge which spanned the Union Pacific railroad track, located just one ...

Welcome Wednesday – new teachers

CALEB OLSON Northeast Hamilton Elementary - Physical Education; Webster City Middle School - Health Caleb Olson is a graduate of Webster City High School. He has earned his degree in K-12 Physical Education from the University of Northern Iowa. He taught 9-12 alternative school and P.E. at Eagle Grove High School for the past two years. This year, he will be teaching PE at Northeast Hamilton Elementary and Physical and Financial Health at Webster City Middle School. Caleb has been married for two years. His wife and he have a nine-month old son named Royce. In his free time, he ...

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Public Health Immunization clinic today An Immunization Clinic will be held this afternoon at the Hamilton County Health Department. This is located at 1610 Collins St., Suite 1, (Sashi Station) and staff will help direct them to the immunization station. Appointments are helpful, as many are already scheduled, so call for appointments at 515-832-9565. There will also be additional immunization clinics that will be held on September 3 and September 23 for back to school immunizations. For measles immunizations, if not sure of the immunization status, the MMR shot, which covers ...