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CRESCO - The Iowa Health Care Association (IHCA) recognized the 2017 IHCA Excellence in Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) Award recipients at its annual convention of long term services and supports providers on Sept. 27 in Des Moines. The Excellence in LTSS Awards recognize individuals’...
Cresco - This October is the 30th anniversary of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The numbers are staggering.
In Northeast Iowa (Allamakee—64 clients, Bremer—34, Chickasaw—23, Clayton—39, Fayette—94, Howard—29 and Winneshiek—46) in one year, there were 270 new female victims, 266 information/...
CRESCO - Wayne Kreitzer of Cresco is the Kiwanis 2016-2017 Layperson of the Year.
Kreitzer was given the Nebraska-Iowa District Kiwanis International 2016-2017 Layperson of the Year Award at the Cresco Kiwanis regular October meeting.
He currently serves as a board member on the Cresco Kiwanis...
CRESCO - Motivational Speaker and Mental Health Professional Jeff Yalden is not the kind of guy who will happily tell you everything in your life is going to be great every day, but he will encourage you to assist yourself and live a purposeful life.
Students, faculty and staff learned this...
CRESCO - The family and friends of Kyler Bina, who lost him to suicide on April 17, 2017, have brought motivational speaker and mental health professional Jeff Yalden to Cresco. He will answer questions about teen depression and suicide at Crestwood High School for students at 12:45 p.m. and...
CRESCO - The CARE (Communities About Reaching Everyone) Board met last week to prepare for Christmas. That’s right. Christmas. The Christmas Program assists families with children with gifts for the holidays.
Many children are lucky enough to get everything on their Christmas wish list. A new...
Howard County - Owners of commercial properties in Howard County were in for a shock when they picked up their mail last week and found property assessments increased 22 percent over last year. The last commercial equalization order was passed in 2009 for a nine percent increase.
The raises will...
CRESCO - A&W/Long John Silver’s hosted the first Coffee with a Cop event on Oct. 4 featuring members of the Cresco Police Department and Howard County Sheriff’s Department.
Police Chief Tim Ruroden noted the event was a helpful way for community residents to talk freely with members of the...
CRESCO - Wikipedia defines caning as, “a method of weaving a chair seat and other furniture, either while building new chairs or in the process of cane chair repair.”
Wikipedia defines upholstering as, “providing furniture with a soft padded covering.”
Finding someone who knows how to do caning...
CRESCO - Approximately 50 people from Howard County and surrounding areas gathered at Kessel Lodge last week to listen to Iowa gubernatorial and congressional candidates, along with a surrogate for the first declared presidential candidate for 2020, John Delaney, at a meeting of the Howard County...
