TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (03/31/23). Beat your personal best this year. Prioritize private reflection, imagination and planning to recharge. Develop new springtime talents and capacities. One summertime financial door closes and another opens, before autumn partnership and romance heats up. Winter collaboration generates shared financial gain. You’re a shining star.
The Hamburg Charter School culinary students, back row from left, Taven Hanseling, Cooper Christo, Ian Thompson, Keith Thompson; front row from left, Hailey Woolard, Kaydence Kimpston, and Hilda Thompson, recently catered the annual Career Day event at Tarkio Tech College. Mace Hensen, who attended the event, shared the photos on Facebook. He said, “I had noticed they catered an event at Grape Community Hospital and I knew Tarkio Tech College was looking for a caterer for their annual Career Day in Tarkio. Invited Amanda Graham to give us a proposal and the kids absolutely blew it out of the water. Catered the event with almost 200 students, teachers, presenters and Tarkio Tech administration.” Hansen added, “They visited a local coffee shop in Tarkio after the event and absolutely wowed the owner there with their professionalism and presence.”
The Fremont County Courthouse is scheduled to start a major window replacement project the week of April 10. The project is expected to take four to five weeks to complete.
The Fremont County Tourism Board oversees tourism funds generated by the Fremont County Hotel/ Motel tax and allocates those funds for projects or events that are anticipated to increase tourism within Fremont County.
The Army Corps of Engineers released the following information on the spring flood forecast for the Missouri River Basin on Friday, March 24. Flood Risk While the flood risk across the Missouri Basin varies for this spring, much of the basin is expected to have a reduced flood risk due to the ongoing drought. However, there are parts of the basin where near-normal or even enhanced flood risk is possible due to near-toabove average mountain snowpack and a significant plains snowpack. Below normal mountain runoff is expected for all but the North Platte basin, where an above normal runoff year is expected. Flood Risk Considerations Soils are still very dry across much of the Missouri Basin.
U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) has announced that high school students across Iowa’s 4th Congressional District are invited to submit their artwork for the 2023 Congressional Art Competition. This competition is conducted by members of the U.S. House of Representatives to encourage students from across the country to express their artistic talents.
The 2023 Women Gaining Ground Conference was held in a new location. The event took place on Saturday, March 4, 2023, at the Clarinda High School in Clarinda, Iowa. More than 90 participants, vendors and presenters were on hand for a day of fun, learning, relaxation, and community.
When her husband passed in 2000 from complications with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Jean Driscoll found herself stepping up in some big ways to operate the family farm. A swine and crop producer from Cedar County, Driscoll had been involved with the farm from the start, working with her husband, the late Dennis “George” Driscoll, on barn chores, recordkeeping and occasionally some fieldwork.
Work anniversaries Patti Hammons Tuesday, Feb. 27, was Patti Hammons’ 50th anniversary at Grape Community Hospital! She works as an RN House Supervisor currently. Patti used to be an OB nurse and delivered many babies here at Grape!
The Iowa Department of Public Safety’s Governor’s School Safety Bureau in partnership with the Department of Education, has launched a free and anonymous school safety threat reporting platform called Safe+Sound Iowa.