Archive for History
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Grandparents Day – September 12th
By Mike Mickle On September 12th, we get the opportunity to celebrate Grandparent's Day. Welcome to September everyone! I hope you are getting used to the new faces popping up in the Publisher's Corner. Dave Deuth, Dan Adams and I are thrilled to be joining Eloise in this endeavor. We are pla...
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September Dates & Facts
By Jennifer Kohel September Daily Observances National Lazy Mom's Day Sept 3 Newspaper Carrier Day Sept 4 Labor Day Sept 6 Rosh Hashanah Sept 8 Stand up to Cancer Day Sept 10 Patriot Day Sept 11 National Grandparent's Day Sept 12 International Day of Democracy Sept 15 Mayflower Day ...
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Scouting Corner – Year of Celebration
By Thomas McDermott Scout Executive, Illowa Council Boy Scouts of America Scouts put the OUTING in SCOUTING Summer is over and the campsites are empty now, but the memories will linger forever with the boys! What a wonderful experience for the boys as they celebrate the 100th anniversar...
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August Dates & Facts
By Jennifer Kohel August is the only month that has no special national day. January has New Year’s Day and MLK Day; February – Valentine’s Day and Presidents’ Day; March – St. Patrick’s Day and the Ides of March; and so on, but not August – or so it seems! I did a little digging an...
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Center For Active Seniors – CASI
By Mary Schricker, SRES Realtor Ruhl&Ruhl Real Estate “Age is opportunity no less than youth itself except in another dress.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Shortly after I began my real estate career I ventured out to Baltimore, Maryland to obtain a special des...
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Scouting Corner – Year of Celebration
By Thomas McDermott Scout Executive, Illowa Council Boy Scouts of America Scouts put the OUTING in SCOUTING Did you know that even after one hundred years, the mission statement of the Boy Scouts of America has remained about the same? In 1910, the statement said, “The purpose is to t...
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Scouting Corner – Year of Celebration
By Thomas McDermott Scout Executive, Illowa Council Boy Scouts of America Scouts put the OUTING in SCOUTING Cub Scout summer camp experiences – Day camps are a mainstay for summertime fun for Tigers, Cub Scouts and Webelos. These boys, along with their families and leaders, all take ad...
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July Dates
By Jennifer Kohel July 1st 1963 ZIP Code introduced for United States mail July 2nd 1962 First Wal-Mart opened for business in Rogers, Arkansas July 3rd 1986 U.S. President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty July 4th 1838 The Iowa Territory was o...
