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Bridge brings new life to park
T-R PHOTO BY ANDREW POTTER
Carol Krantman and John Winters of the Noon Lions Club talk with County Engineer Royce Fichtner, right, after a bridge was installed at the Lions Club Park on Iowa Avenue west of Marshalltown Friday.
November 7, 2009
A 10,000 pound bridge is bringing new life to the Noon Lions Club Park just west of Marshalltown on Iowa Avenue.
The club purchased the used bridge for $175 from Marshall County and had a crane place it over a creek at the entrance to the park on Friday.
The 9-feet by 40-feet steel bridge will take the place of an old wooden walking bridge at the park which was unsafe.
“It’s going to be a safe and attractive entrance to the park,” said Carol Krantman of the Noon Lions.
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Hospital CEO announces retirement at end of year
November 7, 2009
After 19 years leading Marshalltown Medical & Surgical Center, CEO Rob Cooper will retire at the end of the year, the hospital announced Friday.
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Conrad teen dies in car accident
November 7, 2009
A Conrad teen died Thursday after a single vehicle automobile accident in Hardin County.
Leo Barten, 17, of Conrad was ejected from the vehicle. Police said the BCLUW senior was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident.
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Harkin: Health care bill will pass by January
November 7, 2009
JOHNSTON — Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin said Friday his prediction that a sweeping overhaul of the country’s health care system would pass this year was too optimistic, but he remains confident Congress will approve the landmark changes.
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You've Got to Read the Book!
Fri, November 6, 2009 @ 11:28AM
Now as a book lover I think that books show so much more than movies. They have so much more description, but yet you also get to use your imagination to give yourself a picture of the characters or certain places. Maybe it’s just me, but I absolutely hate it when you go to watch a movie about a book you've already read and the characters are all wrong, the events are just less real, and it just is a complete disgrace to the book. Like take the Harry Potter books for instance, Harry's eyes are green just like his mother's. J.K. Rowling gives an explicit description of Harry's green eyes at least once or twice a book. Then in the movie they zoom in on Harry's eyes or just the face, and you see that his eyes are not green but blue! Now this is just one of the minor changes that they made from the book to the movie. I mean, hello, have they heard of colored contacts. Another movie, let’s say Twiligh.
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Dental Hygiene
Mon, November 2, 2009 @ 4:00PM
As many of you know, I have a completely unnatural and utterly baseless fear of going to the dentist. I'm not alone. It seems as though with most of the human population there's a fear of death, public speaking and dentists. The first one bothers me a little. The second not so much. The third, yeah. So it was with great trepidation that I made my way to the dentist's office this morning, preparing for the worst. This in spite of the fact that I've only had one cavity in my life and it didn't even require an injection to fix. Nevertheless, the fear was there. I happen to be watching a Bill Cosby standup routine the night before my trip (Sunday evening). He talked about (you could probably already guess) going to the dentist. "The dentist tells you not to scrape your teeth with any sharp, metallic object," he said. "But yet when you go to the dentist, what's the first thing that happens?" I thought there was some truth to tha.
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Vote today!
Mon, November 2, 2009 @ 3:58PM
"Now go out and vote, it will make you feel good." CBS correspondent Bob Schaeffer attributed those words to his late mother after he moderated a McCain-Obama debate last year. It is wise and timeless advice. Today voters in Marshalltown and citizens in other Central Iowa communities will vote in town elections. Is voting in a town election important? Yes. The men or women we re-elect or elect, will be making decisions, large and small, for us beginning in 2010. Eventually, some of their decisions we will like. Others we will not. But not everything in life turns out the way we want. And that includes politics locally, at the state level and nationally. A vote is like saying "this is who I think should be making those decisions" Not everyone feels comfortable standing up at a city council meeting. Nor do some like writing letters "to the editor.
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You're interviewing HIM????
Thu, November 5, 2009 @ 2:21PM
This is all very amusing to me. I lucked out getting an interview with Lisa Bloom last summer. I also snagged a nice talk with the founder of Slipknot and Buddy Holly's family. I've interviewed several worthy of an honorable mention in Applause, and who can forget a Cosmo Bachelor? It's all a part of the biz, so no big whoop ... until ... I was given a piece of U.S. mail the other day stating that Curious George - the lovable little monkey that kids can't get enough of - is coming to Des Moines the end of this year. So, I grasped onto that letter and said aloud, "I'm going to interview Curious George!" Man, you should have seen that newsroom come alive! Although to be fair, most of whom were present have children, but one made a copy of the letter to take home to their own offspring, another spoke of taking his grand children to see the little protagonist, and not a one of them looked disgusted in the process.
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Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx
Wed, November 4, 2009 @ 3:05PM
It's time to see how the Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx stands up to the University of Iowa football. Hawkeye wide receiver Derrell Johnson-Koulianos is on this week's cover along with the headline - "Still Perfect: Iowa stays in the title chase after another close call." "I haven't thought much about it, to be quite honest. We're not on the cover, are we? Oh, we are. Oh, Geez, thank you," said Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz during his weekly press conference. "So what game was it with the black cat running out? Was that Penn State? We survived that, we'll survive the cover jinx. "You've got to be kidding me? We're on the cover? Isn't the World Series going on right now?" Last week's comeback win over Indiana didn't help Iowa in the world of public opinion, which is unfortunately a huge factor in determining the national championship, and the Hawkeyes dropped a spot to No. 8 in the national rankings. "I don't have time to do that stuff.
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Banner year for football fans
Tue, November 3, 2009 @ 11:29AM
If you are a Marshalltown Bobcat fan and an Iowa Hawkeye fan you are having the time of your life this football season. The two teams are a combined 20-0. Iowa fans can’t remember the last time their team lost — it was Nov. 1, 2008 when Illinois defeated them, 27-24. Both teams seemed to come out of nowhere and rise to elite status. Before the season, many figured Iowa to be a middle-of-the-pack Big Ten team. Marshalltown had a good group of players back this year but no one could have predicted this magical run. It’s great how the whole town is swept up in Bobcat fever. Enjoy these historic gridiron moment.
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Wed, November 4, 2009 @ 11:00AM
I had a few days off of work during the week, so I have been on yard detail for my family. We still own my grandfather’s old house after he passed away three years ago. It has served my family well for storage and other things. The only problem is there are a ton of trees on the property. Therefore, every Fall the place is littered with millions of leaves. There was finally consistently nice weather for a few days where I didn’t have a million other things to do so I decided to rake the yard. Four hours later, I had more than 15 piles of leaves and a ditch full ready to be burned. As soon as my parents were done teaching, we began the burning process. After another two and a half hours and well into darkness, most of the leaves are now off the yard and burned. The next day I woke up and could hardly move. So here’s to a day of rest and then start on my own hou.
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Dogs have leashes. Not kids.
Thu, July 16, 2009 @ 11:58PM
I hate being in a store when you hear a child crying or see one throwing a fit and their parent is not paying attention to their offspring. Not that a parent has to coo at every sound their child makes, but when the crying and/or fit throwing is excessive, that's when a parent should acknowledge the child and either a) try to fix what is wrong, b) discipline the child, or c) decide it is time to go home and take the child out of the store. (Depending on what your personal child-rearing philosophy is. However it seems some parents are without a particular philosophy or brain, rather.) Understanding that children can throw unpleasant fits in stores and can also run away like an Olympic sprinter down a aisle, I get why parents may find it frustrating to take their children into stores. But at the same time the parents did make this choice.
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