Archive for Personal Growth
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RSVP – Lead With Experience
By Bill Sedlacek Retired and Senior Volunteer Program of Eastern Iowa and Western Illnois Joy Andrews sharing a love of learning RSVP Director’s note: RSVP partners with schools, after school programs and organizations like CASI to train tutors and mentors throughout the region. Training ...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER – Optimism: Should We Complain or Be Grateful?
By Eloise Graham Next month is a big election. According to the polls, one half of the country will be happy about the outcome, and the other half will not. But we, as individuals and as a country, must keep moving forward. We can be grateful that we are allowed to go to the polls to plac...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Although I do not focus on lifestyle, lives and styles of poetry and poets have been subject to more scrutiny than their poems over time. I want to reflect on our lifestyles some, for your October column of Max’s Musings. Late summer, I was in a bookstore to search out and pur...
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“The Mother Road”
By Mary Schricker Gemberling John Steinbeck and his wife Carol had just arrived in Chicago where they purchased a Victory Red 1936 Chevrolet sedan. They headed west on Route 66, a voyage that would later become fodder for one of the greatest American novels ever written. In his famous social c...
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A Dream Come True – Local author realizes dream with the release of her debut novel
By Katie Ganshert The love affair began in third grade, when my teacher read my story about Mr. and Mrs. Leaf out loud to the class. While most kids my age spent their free time watching Nickelodean, I spent my time lying in bed, filling spiral-bound notebooks with stories. Oh sure, I still fi...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER – Patriot Day
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Known now as Patriot Day, we take pause as we come to September 11, remembering with gratitude the patriots of our country whose lives were claimed during the 9/11 attacks. These senseless acts of terror and cowardice, now 11 years past, ha...
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Happiness Defined?
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “When I was in school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment; I told them they didn’t understand life! ………..John Lennon On a recent...
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Present Circumstances
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home “Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” .......Nido Quebin According to his website (www.nidoquebin.com), “Dr. Nido Qubein came to the United States as a teenager with ...
