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Happy Birthday to the Interstate Highway System

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Though no major celebrations are planned, the United States is experiencing an important anniversary this summer. Our nation’s Interstate Highway System turns 65 years old! On June 29, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal Highway Act which created our Interstate highway system. Today the 47,622-mile super highway network ­­- representing only one percent of all U.S. road miles­­ - carries 21 percent of the nation’s traffic. President Eisenhower’s primary motivation for building an interstate highway system was national defense. The former general wanted a ...

Grateful for those who attended benefit

Letters to Editor

To the Editor: On behalf of Wong Thongsouk’s family, we are extremely thankful for those that came and bought from Kona Ice on Wednesday, June 23. Also, we want to thank those who dropped off a donation. Thank you Emily Baker for doing this fundraiser for Wong and his family. Shylo Olson Webster City

Fish for the hungry fish

Local Columns

When anglers go fishing, they want to catch a fish. In fact, most anglers want to catch lots of fish. While you’re probably not going to always catch lots of fish, there are some things that people who fish can do to increase their odds of getting bit. Finding the biters is a big part of ...

What do you think about love and marriage?

Local Columns

Love and marriage have changed in my time on earth. Rules have blurred since I was a teenager. Upon my first marriage I was only 21 years old. God gave me 43 years with Cindy, the bride of my youth. After her passing, He blessed me again and now Julie and I have been married nearly seven years. If my ciphering is correct, I have been married for more than two-thirds of my life. That’s fine with me. I’m not the brightest bulb in the string but I do know a few things about love and marriage and I know that marriage is a good thing when you are married to the right ...

Congratulations, Class of 2021

Editorials

To the Graduates of 2021, What a long, strange trip it's been. You may not know where that comes from, but it's never been more true this year. You spent the last year and a half taking classes from home, not being sure how long it would be before you could hang out with your friends and family without the shadow of COVID-19 hanging over you. And yet you got through it. Whatever your plans for the next few years, at worst they had to be adjusted or postponed, but not canceled. Nobody escaped this last year unscarred and unchanged — not you or the adults around you, who were ...

Serendipity; I love it when it happens

Local Columns

Serendipity. It’s such a fun word to say but you don’t hear it used often. Serendipity not only sounds good; it is good. Merriam-Webster’s official definition of the word is “the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for; also: an instance of this.” Serendipity can occur in many ways. For some, it may be finding a $100 bill on the sidewalk. For me, it usually involves meeting people in a surprising setting. An instance of serendipity occurred on a recent weekend. Julie and I had driven to Orange City in Northwest Iowa to spend the ...