March 2022

Occupational therapy may sound like something exclusive to people who are injured on the job. Though occupational therapy helps people in the workplace every day, it also helps men and women, including those with arthritis, perform everyday activities that may or may not be work-related.

In 2010, a majority of Iowans voted for a constitutional amendment that established a Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation Trust Fund. The purpose of the fund is to provide resources to invest in the conservation of Iowa’s land and water. The amendment stipulated that the trust fund would be financed through a future three-eighths of one percent increase in sales tax, which has not yet occurred.

The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts is presenting “Ice Works” by Jody Boyer through April 29. Boyer is an artist based in the Omaha/Council Bluffs Metro area. Her latest body of work began in April of 2020 at the start of the pandemic. While Boyer sheltered in place with her family, she found herself reflecting not only on self-care but also on the roles and responsibilities of how we tend to each other, our shared communities, and our shared humanity.

March 20, 2022 Sheriff Kevin Aistrope Reports on March 20, 2022, at approximately 19:30 hrs, Fremont County Deputies were called to the 1900 Block of Park Street in Hamburg, for a report of a possibly intoxicated female driving recklessly in the yard of a church. The vehicle, a 1998 Dodge Dakota, driven by Ashley Frost, age 32 of Hamburg, Iowa, fled the scene prior to deputies’ arrival.