Pair of blood drives slated for January

LifeServe  Blood Center invites Iowans to celebrate National Blood Donor Month in January by giving a lifesaving blood donation. Blood Donor Awareness Month creates awareness about the importance of the volunteer blood donor program and the impact blood donors can have in their communities. Donors who give blood in January will receive a “Proud Blood Donor” window cling at the time…

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Time. And time again.

~a column by Colleen O’Brien It took me a long time to get to the millennium, and now it’s 2015? My dad told me when I was a grade schooler that time would speed up as I got older. “I can remember everything that happened to me before you and your sisters were born,” he said. “And then it speeded…

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Baltimore to head House Judiciary committee

House Speaker Kraig Paulsen (R-Hiawatha) recently announced that Rep. Chip Baltimore (R-Boone) will serve as the chairman of the House Judiciary committee.   Baltimore represents House District 47, which includes all of Greene County and a large portion of Boone County. “Rep. Baltimore never shies away from a challenge – instead he works across the aisle, developing commonsense solutions to improve…

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Statewide commercial manure applicator training Jan. 6

Applicators should contact the Greene County Extension to register Commercial manure applicators should plan to attend the commercial manure applicator training program scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 6, from 9 am to noon. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, in cooperation with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR), will conduct the required three-hour training workshop. There is no fee to attend the…

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In the neighborhood…

Rippey News December 29, 2014 Please send your news item to Jean Borgeson at jeanb@iowatelecom.net Dean Wilson of Los Angeles, CA, (left) and Lynn Wilson of Stillwater, MN, (right) helped their father, Errol Wilson (center), celebrate his 96th birthday, which was Dec. 17, 2014. Errol resides at the Rowley Masonic Home in Perry. The staff sang Happy Birthday to him,…

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