Society
Robert and Janet (Candee) Wilder of Northwood will be celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary. They were married on June 12, 1955, at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Manly, Iowa.
The couple have three daughters, JoAnn (Boyd) Manges, Marcie (Todd) Missman, Amy (Tim) Parcher; eight grandchildren...
On May 21-22, 12 4-H youth of varying ages planted the Worth County ISU Extension 4-H vegetable garden plots at the fairgrounds.
These plots are usually planted by Northwood-Kensett sixth graders, but the N-K Schools closed on March 16, so this year is an exception.
4-Hers who planted a garden...
Each year the Worth County Cattlemen have, for a number of years, done a brief review of the previous year's activities.
May 2020 finds our industry in a very unusual position, market ready cattle, with no one to buy them, or the ability to slaughter them. Local locker facilities booked full out...
The Twenties Study Club has hosted a festive spring tea party each year for the girls of the Senior Class at N-K.
This has been a tradition for decades, at first being held in the private homes of club members and later in larger places such as the Country Club or the Olson Community Room.
This...
The annual Vacation Bible School event in Bolan has been cancelled for 2020.
The VBS gathering of children and volunteers from several area churches had been planned for June 22-26, with a theme of "Rocky Railway."
Currently the plan is to hold VBS with that theme in 2021, in the week following...
Ryan and Amy Rollene are delighted to announce the marriage of their daughter, Ivy Lynn Rollene, to Benjamin Marwedel of Waukee, Iowa.
The couple will get married on May 23, 2020, in a private ceremony attended by immediate and close family members. The family has enjoyed renovating Ivy's...
"In The Shadow of Rattlesnake Mountain" (2004, The Donning Company Publishers, Virginia Beach, Virginia) has this statement on the front cover: “A Treasury of Recipes, Photos and Memories from Lewis and Clark Through the Great Depression.”
That’s a long period of time! The pictures in this...
Along with my love of cooking and eating, I very much enjoy sewing quilt tops of all types. Keepsake Quilting is a very large quilt store in New Hampshire with catalog and online sales as well as in store sales of fabric and all things quilty. They even published a cookbook! “The Keepsake Quilting...
No, people wearing masks in public are not on the way to a masquerade party. They are certain at-risk or cautious individuals protecting themselves from the contagious COVID-19 virus.
After commercial mask inventories were quickly depleted, the medical profession has reached out to home...
We are in “shoulder season”, where on a few days winter is somehow not yet done with us but spring isn’t truly here yet. But, it IS coming and with it a craving for salads and fresh foods that are missing during the cold months in Iowa. Produce that has been shipped in over long distances just...