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Gratitude and best wishes

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Throughout November the Webster City Ministerial Association offers reminders about gratitude. When children at Asbury Preschool were asked what they were thankful for, more than half of them listed family and friends. Pets too. Several specifically listed siblings. Do you think they are always happy with their siblings? It seems doubtful – likely they sometimes argue with their siblings. Yet those arguments don’t stop them from appreciating their siblings. When you find yourself annoyed by someone or something, consider also what positives they bring to your life. Amidst the ...

Storm sewer work to insure road beds are not compromised

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The large excavation shown here,just north of Highway 20 near Superior Street and Fair Meadow Drive, is part of a long-term effort by the City of Webster City to improve the capacity of storm sewers to deal with high levels of rain and run-off as experienced this summer and fall. Excessive standing water at this location could have compromised the underlying roadbed of both Superior Street and U.S. Highway 20.

The military not only provides path to future, but ties that bind

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Laurie Epps is a doer. While recently retired from a career in the banking industry, her first experiences after high school encompassed a passion, that spread quietly between siblings and children. Laurie met her husband when she was in the Air Force and that union set a path that wasn’t the most conventional. Born to Larry and Jan Olmstead, Laurie Olmstead graduated from Webster City High School in 1977, then Olmstead, now Epps had different interests than most of her female classmates. “When I was in high school, I took auto mechanics,” she said. “I was the only girl in ...

Veterans Day activities Wednesday

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Veterans from American Legion Post 191 will speak to 8th-grade students at the Middle School from about 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. about their military experiences. The American Legion members have gone into the schools to connect with students for a number of years. The Community Veterans Day program will be held at the Webster City Middle School in the multi-purpose room. This program will begin at 10:45 a.m. Community members, parents and other interested individuals are invited to attend. Please arrive about 10:30 to insure there is enough time to get to the gym and be ...

Forum to address hunger in community to be December 1

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A public forum to address hunger issues in northern Iowa is being held in early December in Goodell, Iowa. Hunger in Our Homes: Connecting Our Community to Food Access Solutions, will be held December 1, to create an opportunity for an open community conversation about the issue of food insecurity right here in our communities. Hunger is a community challenge. Food access is a shared responsibility. And the solutions start with us. We want everyone in attendance to know they are part of the solution, not just an audience member listening to problems. Then we can ask, What can WE do, ...

Iowa Gov.-elect Rob Sand emphasizes need for Iowa government to work together

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Iowa Gov.-elect Rob Sand, emphasized Friday that his priorities, and those of Iowa lawmakers, will need to be the product of collaboration now that Republicans’ trifecta majority has been divided. “We don’t elect a dictator, right? We don’t elect a king or a queen,” Sand said during the taping of “Iowa Press” on Iowa PBS. “We elect a governor, and what that governor does is dependent in part on what the Legislature does.” Sand, a Democrat who is currently serving as Iowa state auditor, won against Republican candidate Zach Lahn in the Tuesday election. While ...