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Online workshops available for Family Care Givers

Do you help take care of an adult with chronic conditions? If so, you are not alone. Over 43.5 million family caregivers in America provide a vast array of emotional, financial, nursing, social, homemaking and other services on a daily or an intermittent basis.

A can’t-miss holiday side dish

Side dishes are just as important to a holiday meal as the main course. It’s perfectly acceptable to offer a few new and unique dishes on your holiday table, but guests likely will be expecting some tried-and-true classics as well.

Southeast CC to increase tuition in 2023-2024 school year

The Southeast Community College Board of Governors approved a $2 per credit hour increase in the tuition rate and a $2 per credit hour increase in facilities fee for the 2023-2024 academic year during its regular monthly meeting Dec. 13. The motion passed on a 9-2 vote.

Medicare fraud

Q: How is waste, fraud and abuse weakening Medicare for current and future generations? A: Seniors and people with disabilities depend on Medicare for their health care coverage, including more than 650,000 Iowans. Every dollar lost to waste, fraud and abuse rips off the taxpayer and skims resources intended for Medicare patients.

Nonfiction Options Available

The Hamburg Public Library has a collection of nonfiction books to tweak the interest of readers in categories from amazing facts to self-help, from cookbooks to gardening, from crafts to collecting, or from Iowa and Midwest history to biographies.

Repeating Itself

with Phyllis Buell Hearing and reading about the snowstorm that shut down western Nebraska last week, I thought about other years when there were other memorable winter storms. My ancestors didn’t take time to record happenings in their personal lives.

Midwest Crops Conference Delivers Cutting Edge Research

The Midwest Crops Conference (formally Northwest Missouri Crop Advisors Conference) provides the opportunity for farmers and crop advisors to hear about the most up-to-date research from 3 Universities. Planned by specialists in agriculture fields from University of Missouri Extension, Kansas State Extension and University of Nebraska Extension the conference gives an overview of research conducted at all three Universities. Topics cover four areas of concern for producers: nutrient management, soil and water, crop management and pest management.

Grape Hospital Tree of Lights update

The Grape Hospital Auxiliary Tree of Lights glows in 2022 as it has for the past 33 years. Over 200 bulbs are already lit on the tree in front of the hospital in memory or in honor of loved ones. This list is the third installment of their names.