Archive for Family
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Preparing for Estate Planning
By Ryan Denman Duffy Law Office Duffy Law Office is a member of the American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys. Once you decide that it’s time to handle your estate planning affairs, you will need to prepare for the planning process. Preparation makes it easier for you to work with your ...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
The Art of Growing Pumpkins By Kari Smith In the spring of 2009, my husband approached me with what he thought was going to be a wonderful experience. He wanted to use a corner of the yard for a garden, not just any garden, he wanted to plant pumpkins. I grew up taking care of a garden, so I was...
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Stop, Drop and Roll…
By Eloise Graham Do you remember playing the Stop, Drop and Roll game at your school in your youth? I remember playing it at recess and at my Brownie Scout meetings when I was a little girl. Then, as a young mother and scout leader, I taught it to my Brownie Troops, Cub Scout Dens and at Scout Tr...
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Ella’s Kitchen
Autumn Soup 1/2 lb. ground beef 1/2 lb. ground turkey 1 quart (4 cups) hot water 1 large onion, chopped 2 ribs of celery, cut up* 2 carrots, scrubbed or peeled and sliced 1 or 2 potatoes cut up** 1 can cut green beans, drained*** 1 can or small pkg frozen whole cor...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Earlier this year in these columns you may have labored through me creating poems from the regular prose of a news writer and a magazine columnist. They were fun for me and hopefully, for you. Some of us, in choosing our words can work into poetic phrasing. We learned English to ...
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September is National Family Meals Month
By Madeleine Ranshaw, RD, LD Hy-Vee Registered Dietician (563) 391-0213 | mranshaw@hy-vee.com We have all been there. You get home from a long day and you are hungry! You don’t want to take the time to make dinner, so you just end up ordering food to go. And while that idea may be fine every ...
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Sapphire Skies, Fantastic Fall Flowers and Gratitude for Grandparents
By Eloise Graham There just seems to be something about September skies. They always seem bluer; a deeper blue, a truer blue. Have you ever noticed that? A crisper blue, to go along with the crisper air as the days get shorter. The birthstone for September is the sapphire, and it is said that ...
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Do What You Like, Like What You Do
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Over the past nearly three decades, I’ve had my share of plentiful and curious questions about my life’s work. Some questions pertain to legalities and protocols. Some pertain to the technical aspects of embalming and, more recently, cre...
