Archive for March, 2010
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Speaking Out – How Much is Enough?
By Pam Brammann, R. N. I was raised in Iowa, a city girl and an American. I have always been proud to be an American. That’s why it scares me when I see a possibility of America’s demise not too far off into the future, especially if we do not change our current path of greed and selfish ...
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Marching to his own drumbeat
By Gary Metivier Ken Martin—An Everyday Hero I'll never forget hosting my first Festival of Trees Holiday Parade more than a dozen years ago for KWQC-TV6. It was heart-warming to see the huge crowds of families, the marching bands, the handmade floats, and of course the helium balloons, but ...
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March Facts
By Jennifer Kohel Monthly Observances American Red Cross Month Deaf History Month Employee Spirit Month Honor Society Awareness Month National Caffeine Awareness Month National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month Sing with Your Child Mon...
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Publisher’s Corner
By Eloise Graham March - a time of uncertainties but a time of promise! The weather in March is certainly an uncertain given. In like a lion and out like a lamb. Or vice-versa. Do you remember that from your childhood? To me that phrase proves that March has always been an unpredictable, turbu...
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Preserving those Precious Memories
By Harry G. Coin Industrial/Systems Software Architect CEO, Quiet Fountain LLC 563-332-4970 • hcoin@quietfountain.com So, there I was: just under 50 years old, looking at about 100 boxes of photographs on slides taken from the 1950s through the 1980s, holding all the memories of our pare...
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Keeping Photos Out of the Fire
By James N. Graham, Attorney at Law Staff Contributor Jacques Lowe died in March of 2001 after a life spent behind a camera. Lowe had been the personal photographer of John F. Kennedy. In order to preserve 40,000 images taken over the course of JFK’s life, Lowe took the precaution of storing h...
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Ask the Audiologist
By Laura Kauth, M. A., CCC-A Audiology Consultants, P.C. Why should I get 2 hearing aids vs 1? If you have similar levels of hearing loss in both ears, your audiologist will most likely recommend hearing aids in both ears (binaural), for much the same reason as a person with vision prob...
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Tales by Triplett – It’s never too late to learn
By Patrick Triplett God love my mom. She means well. But try as she may, she just doesn't quite get it when it comes to sports. Granted, she didn't start getting involved until her grandson, Mike, became a sportswriter a few years ago. She began reading his articles and watching his interviews on...
