The LifeServe Blood Center announced this week that the blood drive held last week at the Van Diest Medical Center was a great success. The blood drive had 28 registered donors, with 22 successful procedures. 26 units of blood and plasma were collected, which could potentially impact 78 lives. During the drive, there was one new donor, 1 who reached their first gallon of donations, and 1 person who hit the 14 gallon mark.
NOLAN FABER Webster City Middle School - Special Education Nolan Faber is a graduate of Roland-Story High School in Story City, IA. He earned his degree in Physical Education from Buena Vista University. He completed most of his observation in the Storm Lake area and finished with his student teaching back home in Roland-Story Community School District. He has also done some substitute teaching at Roland-Story in their Special Education Department. This year he will be teaching Special Education at Webster City Middle School. His parents are Steve and Jenny Faber and he has three ...
As a boy growing up in Spencer, Iowa, Trent Walker spent summers helping on his grandfather’s farm, picturing that he someday would follow in his grandfather’s footsteps and become a farmer himself. During harvest season, he trick-or-treated at his grandpa’s grain bin site as trucks came in from the fields. He was particularly drawn to the changing seasons and how no two days were quite the same. “I would never be able to work in a factory,” said Walker, 30. “I would just get so bored.” With the passing years, Walker learned that access to land is one of the biggest ...
The Iowa Utilities Commission proposed hearing dates Monday for a permit on segments of a carbon sequestration pipeline project proposed in Iowa. Supporters of the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline said the early 2027 hearing dates should be moved up to before the end of 2026, while opponents said the proposed hearing schedule interferes with harvest, winter holidays and calving season. Opponents of the pipeline also argued that the hearings on the company’s second phase of the project should not be heard until the lawsuit over the permit for the pipeline’s initial route has ...
The Karl L. King Municipal Band will be moving out of its home of some 25 years in the Fort Dodge Public Library because of upcoming renovations to that building. The band has been offered space in the Municipal Building, 819 First Ave. S., but the details of the potential move are still being resolved, according to Assistant City Manager Ryan Maehl. “Obviously, moving and changing isn’t something everyone likes,” he said Library Director Rita Schmidt said the band has been asked to move out of its room in the library by January with the expectation that renovations will ...
Webster City from the Lincoln High School class of 1958 met on August 27 for their 68th class reunion. Those attending include, front row: Sherryl Asklund Rairdin, Marlene Wearda Jackson, Shirley Rinehimer Juon and Nancy Holkan Pilcher. In the second row, from left to right are Lois Hicks Rodwell, Paul Fugate, Sandy Wiggins Short, Wayne Johnson, Carol Wagner Wells, Sally Ladd Wilson and Ann McMurray Balderson. During the day, the class toured The Elks, the Jane Young House and Fuller Hall. Another reunion is being planned for June 2027.