Community’s help needed in bell tower grant app

The Bell Tower Community Foundation is applying for a state Community Attraction and Tourism (CAT) grant to help finance the completion of the 4-octave carillon of the Mahanay Memorial Carillon Tower in honor of its 50th birthday this year. To enhance the application, letters of support from local residents are strongly encouraged.  

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Name change for Caleris with rebranding of INS

Caleris, an inbound call center in Jefferson, will be known as Aureon Contact Center with a rebranding of the INS family of companies. Caleris, along with Iowa Network Services, Alliance Technologies, Alliance Connect, Merit Resources and Portico Staffing, comprise the INS family of companies. Based in West Des Moines, Aureon specializes in support services to businesses. The company has more…

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In the neighborhood

Please send your news item to Jean Borgeson at jeanb@iowatelecom.net March 28, 2016 Upcoming events: The annual Lions Club father/son banquet is set for April 2 at the Rippey United Methodist Church. Doors open at 11:30 am with the meal at 12 noon. Entertainment following the meal will be Rick Fazel playing guitar and singing a variety of songs. As…

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Community Foundation awards $119,000 in grants

~by Jacque Andrew, special to GreeneCountyNewsOnline The Greene County Community Foundation (GCCF) awarded 18 grants amounting to $119,000 at a special recognition Monday at the First Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall in Jefferson. As donors to the GCCF’s annual drive to build its endowment were recognized by president Tom Wind, he noted that 88 Greene county residents donated $9,302.  The principal…

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Fourth graders to perform April 5

Greene County fourth graders will present a spring concert Tuesday, April 5, in the Intermediate School gymnasium in Grand Junction at 7 pm. The students will sing seasonal songs and perform on recorders. Family, friends and relatives are encouraged to attend.  ~The Scranton Journal

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Women’s History Month

~a column by Colleen O’Brien Women’s History Month is done with for another year. Women’s history is sketchy — so little written about so few over the millennia; always there but not talked about, the little woman. Or even talked to, in some eras. We know that women were around because the human race is still around.

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Babysitting Basics class April 2, 9

There is still space available in Greene County Extension’s popular Babysitting Basics course. Youth in grades 5-6 will meet on two consecutive Saturdays, April 2 and 9, from 8:30 am to noon. The workshop will be held at St Joseph Parish Center in Jefferson. Cost is $25 for all registrations received by March 30. If there is room, additional registrations…

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