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North Iowa and Southern Minnesota are so close we can shake hands. Our friends in Glenville, Minnesota love to cook and eat as well as we do. The Deer Creek Valley Lutheran Church celebrated 100 years of good cooking and Christian worship in 1994. The cookbook they created found its way to me...
Here we sit sweating it out under a heat dome. It’s supposed to get hot in an Iowa summer, but like this? One heat dome after another. Then a shower just in the nick of time. They say it’s a sign of climate change — that seasonal extremes like a hot August day become more extreme, and linger....
Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting
Hot enough for you?
No, I wish it were hot enough to melt the soles of my shoes as I walked.
Well, at least it’s not a dry heat.
Driving by Bruce’s drive
I have a wonderful neighbor named Bruce. Whenever I pass his drive, thoughts occur to me. When I asked...
Dear Savvy Senior,
I take several medications for multiple health conditions and the prices keep going up, even with my Medicare prescription drug insurance. Can you recommend any tips that can help cut my costs?
Tapped Out Tina
Dear Tina,
The high cost of prescription drugs is an ongoing...
Now that school is starting again we all need to help protect our young people by driving defensively and SLOWING DOWN. The speeds on ALL of our City streets seem to be getting faster and faster. Help make our community a safe one by being a good and courteous driver. Driving is a FULL TIME job. NO...
That fictional kitchen maven, Betty Crocker, will probably “live” forever unless someone becomes offended by the idea of a woman in the kitchen. Until that unknown time, we see Betty’s name on kitchenware, food products, books and magazines. One of those is New Slower Cooker Meals, a supermarket...
After Kansas Reflector reported on the ignominious and unconstitutional raid of the Marion County Record on Aug. 11, news outlets and commentators from across Kansas and the nation followed suit throughout the weekend. The voices of those who value a free press and free expression were overwhelming...
Echoes from the
Loafers’ Club Meeting
Do you have mosquitoes around here?
Big ones. See that eagle over there?
I do.
Well, that’s no eagle.
Driving by Bruce’s drive
I have a wonderful neighbor named Bruce. Whenever I pass his drive, thoughts occur to me. Everything was nearly copacetic except...
Dear Savvy Senior,
What retirement planning tips can you recommend to single women? I’m a divorced 58-year-old women with a teenaged son and have very little saved for retirement.
Financially Vulnerable
Dear Vulnerable,
It’s an unfortunate reality, but many single women – whether they’re...
Until I did a bit of internet research, I had never heard of Royal Neighbors of America. This is a women-led insurance company established in 1895 and was one of the first such companies to realize that women as well as their husbands needed life insurance. The company is alive and well,...