Society
The Bolan Schoolhouse & Cultural Center was the place to be on Sunday, January 3, as the community gathered to celebrate the birthday of Bolan’s newest resident, Ida Ivanka Kubler.
Balloons, cake and a delicious meal of Bulgarian food cooked and served by this lovely lady made for an...
"Gourmet Stews: Step-by-Step" is somewhat of a mystery cookbook. It seems to have been published by Bay Books for an organization called Confident Cooking. There is no publication date indicated and it has a definite international style to the recipes and the ingredients. Not often are stews...
Members of the Bolan Schoolhouse and Cultural Center, along with two local area artists, met on Saturday, January 16, with Ivanka “Ida” Kubler. They discussed proposals Ida had for the Board to consider.
Well, we United Methodists won’t be getting back into church soon. The COVID–19 count is too...
I know I got my first blender, an Oster, sometime in the mid-60s. Since then I’ve learned what a great workhorse this kitchen appliance is and I now own two VitaMix models. There is so much you can do that isn’t just making smoothies. The “Blender Cookbook” by Ann Seranne and Eileen Gaden (1961,...
Happy January library friends! We hope 2021 is off to a good start for you. The library is continuing to serve the community, so please stop by to see us during our modified open hours: Mondays and Fridays 1-5 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays 1-6 p.m., and Saturdays 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Hopefully we will...
Easy Food (2004, Sliverback Books, Inc, San Francisco, California) combines, in the title, two favorite words: Easy and Food. I don’t know too many people who, even though they love to cook, want to spend hours and hours prepping, cooking, garnishing and then serving. The recipes in this book,...
It is possible that we may be back into our United Methodist churches soon, if the COVID - 19 count goes down. This would be great. It has been a long time. We’ll see what happens.
It is always great to have volunteers help put up Christmas lights around Bolan, but it is really neat when they...
Well, 2020 is over! I do believe everyone is hoping for a healthy new year with less turmoil. I for one am looking forward to actually going to a Sunday morning worship service at Bolan Trinity UMC without a mask, being able to sing without being muffled, and to shake hands or accept a big hug...
I’ve really been digging around in my “cookbook vault” to find old treasures that haven’t seen the light of day for quite a while. This week the star is “Cooking with Soup: a Campbell Cookbook.” It’s a small, spiral-bound book with no indication of date of publication. Of course, it was compiled...
Chad Nelson, Louisa Montealvo and Paul Rottinghaus have joined the North Iowa Area Community College (NIACC) Alumni Advisory Board.
Nelson, of Northwood, graduated from NIACC in 1997 and Iowa State University in 1999 with a degree in Agribusiness. Nelson is the president of Farmers State Bank,...