Over 7000 runners participated in the Living History Farm Cross Country Race yesterday in Urbandale. The living history farms race is no ordinary race. Runners who participate in this 7 mile race end up going through 6 different creek crossings, up several steep muddy hills, dodge the occasional deer, all while enduring temperatures in the […]
St. Paul Congregational United Church of Christ 2010 Holiday Bazaar looks to have been a good time for those who attended. They had craft items, treasurers of yesteryear, pecans, assorted specialty nut items, a country store and tons of wonderful looking homemade baked goods. The day started with coffee time with varieties of pastries from […]
North Carolina On November 21, 1789, North Carolina ratified the Constitution to become the twelfth state in the Union. The vote came approximately two hundred years after the first white settlers arrived on the fertile Atlantic coastal plain. Originally inhabited by a number of native tribes, including the Cherokee, Catawba, Tuscarora, and Coratans, North Carolina […]
1990: Warm late autumn weather resulted in daily record high temperatures across much of the state. Highs of 74 F at Des Moines and 73 F at Waterloo are the highest on record at both locations for this late in the season and a high of 70 F at Mason City marked their latest occurrence […]
December 16, 1918 – November 20, 2010 Visitation: will begin at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday morning, November 23, 2010 at Garland-Van Arkel-Langkamp Funeral Chapel. The family will be at the funeral chapel from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. to greet visitors. Funeral Service: 10:30 a.m., Wednesday morning, November 24, 2010 at Central United Methodist Church with Reverend […]
The holiday season has many sights and sounds that help to bring back many memories. One of those is the red kettle of the Salvation Army, and the familiar ringing of the bell. The local chapter had their kick off meeting Saturday morning starting at 10:00 at the VFW building in Oskaloosa, but 94 year […]
Chicago, Ill.–The Statesmen basketball team started a three-day, three-game road trip in Chicago by defeating Roosevelt 92-81 in non-conference play Thursday. Penn (4-2) defeated the Lakers (1-4), who are one of the newest members of the NAIA and who reinstated an athletics programs that had been dormant since the fall of 1989 (basketball was last […]
Approximately 7:40 last evening, 52 year old Brenda Lea Devries was driving Northeast on T-15 in Marion County. Devries lost control of her 2002 Chevrolet Silverado pickup when she lost control on the curve. The pickup left the roadway causing the vehicle to roll. Devries was not wearing her seat belt and was ejected from […]
Howard University On November 20, 1866, ten members of the First Congregational Society of Washington, D.C., gathered in the home of Deacon Henry Brewster for a missionary meeting. While there, they resolved to establish a seminary for the training of African-American clergymen. By early 1867, the founders had broadened their mission to encompass colleges of […]
1975: Low pressure moved from Kansas over Iowa and into Wisconsin producing heavy snow and blizzard conditions in far northwestern Iowa from the afternoon of November 19th into the morning of the 20th. Snowfall accumulations ranged up to 8.0 inches at Hawarden and Rock Rapids, which along with winds exceeding 50 mph paralyzed the region […]
