Restaurants receive IDPH guidance about reopening

Governor’s Invest in Iowa proposal “on hold” The number of cases of COVID-19 in Iowa continues to increase even as residents in three-fourths of Iowa’s counties look forward to relaxing some of the mitigation requirements put in place last month. Gov Kim Reynolds started her daily press briefing with the news that there were 508 new positive cases of the…

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Dixie Mengel, 1932 – 2020

Dixie Mengel, the daughter of Earl and Leone (Koebrich) Witcraft, was born February 8, 1932, in Fraser,  and passed from this life April 25, 2020, at Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines. She lived her life to the age of 88 years, 2 months and 17 days. Dixie grew up in Fraser and graduated from Pilot Mound High School in…

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