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Take advantage of Citizen Police Academy

I was delighted to read in the paper that the Police Department is going to offer the Citizen Police Academy again in March of this year. I attended it several years ago with a friend and we found it to be an excellent opportunity and experience. In the ten week sessions you get a complete look at all the departments that work together to keep our community safe. You are able to ask questions and interact with the men and women who serve us selflessly twenty-four hours a day. You are able to take a tour of the fine facility that houses our police and fire departments, and even ride ...

Period of Israel’s judges part one

The world has been full of violence against certain cultures. We are looking at the time when Israel had Judges, not Kings. In the early part of the Bible God worked to create these folks; but for what purpose? Apparently, he was looking to create Israel and the Jews, a nation of people who thought and lived as God does-full of grace, forgiveness and peace. God found a man who filled the criteria. His name was Abraham. Of all places, he lived in Ur, present day Iraq, a nation today that hates Jews. Judges started in about 1,000 B. C. right after the death of Joshua. God squashed ...

Sour Grape Syndrome

The letters from Larry Ginter on Jan. 23 and Daniel Wacker on Jan. 24 convinces me they are suffering from sour grape syndrome. Their candidate lost. So their name calling and judgmental attitude is all they have left. Neither one of these guys wrote anything against Joe Biden’s open border policy that allowed 10 million illegals into our country that included drug dealers, rapists, robbers and murderers. By the way, the news said 18,000 young folks die each year from these drugs. Ginter and Wacker reject the collective thinking of the American people who saw through this evil ...

Grateful for Marshalltown’s generosity

The overwhelming generosity of the people of Marshalltown​, helped provide joy to children in need through Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts this season. Across the U.S., the Samaritan’s Purse project collected 10.5 million shoebox gifts in 2024. Combined with those collected from partnering countries in 2024, the ministry is now sending over 11.9 million shoebox gifts to children worldwide. Shoebox packers brought joy and hope to children around the world through fun, full, personalized gifts. For many children, this is the first gift they have ever received. Each shoebox ...

Have you no shame, Senator Grassley?

Have you no shame, Senator Grassley? I’m referring to your recent video defending President Trump’s total pardon of the Jan. 6 rioters. On the one hand, I wasn’t surprised that you would support President Trump’s pardons because you have been a staunch supporter of everything Trump has done, including his claims that the 2020 election was overrun with fraud. On the other hand, weren’t you among the elected officials who had to flee for their lives when the rioters stormed the Capitol? Maybe it didn’t bother you that the people who tried to circumvent the democratic and ...

The inauguration of a felon

Watching the bizarre, the inauguration of a felon onto the seat of the U.S. presidency there can be no doubt the Chamber of the U.S. Capitol became the psychological rabbit hole. All the prayer invocations, political commentary, poems, songs, cheers, oaths, tales of grandeur were mere smoke screens seeping up and away from the stench of the rabbit hole (the betrayal of the rule of law). When the felon announced he was going to reverse the ancient native name Denali and again call the Alaskian mountain Mt. McKinley, he shamefully coded the imperialist White Supremacy mindset which ...