Visitation: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 10:00 AM until 11:00 AM Pierschbacher Funeral Home 914 Roland St. Chariton, IA 50049 Service: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 11:00 AM Pierschbacher Funeral Home 914 Roland St. Chariton, IA 50049 Services for Wilma Clothier, 96, will be Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 11 a.m. at the Pierschbacher Funeral Home in […]
The value of mineral production in the U.S. increased 9 percent in 2010 from that of 2009, suggesting that the nonfuel minerals industries, particularly metals, were beginning to recover from the economic recession that began in December 2007 and lasted well into 2009. The value of raw, nonfuel minerals mined in the U.S. was $64 […]
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Thursday, January 27, U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Deputy Secretary Scott Gould, and U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness Director Barbara Poppe joined volunteers around the nation as they participated in a national count of homeless persons and families as part of HUD’s national […]
Announcement at Pheasant Fest Marks 25th Anniversary of CRP, Opens New Conservation Opportunities to Landowners OMAHA, Jan. 28, 2011 — Speaking today at National Pheasant Fest 2011, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the next general signup for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) will begin on March 14, 2011, and continue through April 15, 2011. […]
The December 4, 2010 fire that struck Keota has had it’s lasting effects on those impacted by the destruction, and the town as a whole. Bill Miller, owner of the old lumberyard where it’s believed the fire started, said that the State Fire Marshal has determined it to be arson. Miller stated that the State […]
Kansas Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29, 1861. About two hundred years earlier the French Jesuit priests, Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, were among the region’s earliest European explorers. A map drawn by Marquette in 1673 indicated that the Kanza, Ouchage (Osage), and Paneassa (Pawnee) tribes dominated the area that […]
1909: A very severe blizzard struck most of Iowa from January 28-30. The storm began with light rain during the day on the 28th then changed to heavy rain that evening and to snow overnight. Very strong northwest winds whipped the snow into large drifts, reduced visibilities to near zero, damaged homes and businesses, broke […]
DES MOINES – In the last election, Iowans overwhelmingly supported the requirement of a photo ID to vote with their choice for Secretary of State. Today, the Iowa House of Representatives showed they are listening to Iowans by passing changes to Iowa’s voting laws to require photo ID. HF 95 requires that all voters show […]
DES MOINES, January 28, 2011 – Iowa Insurance Commissioner Susan E. Voss has completed her review of the Wellmark rate increase request filed with her office in November. The company will not be permitted to raise individual health insurance policy base rates by 10.8%, as they had requested, but will be allowed an 8.5% increase. […]
May 10, 1916 – January 28, 2011 Visitation: Will begin at 10:00 a.m., Sunday morning, January 30, 2011 at Garland-Van Arkel-Langkamp Funeral Chapel. the family will be at the funeral chapel from 2 – 4 p.m. to greet friends and relatives. Funeral Service: 10:30 a.m., Monday morning, January 31, 2011 at First Christian Reformed Church […]
