Celebrate someone you love at the Cedar Valley Hospice Release & Remember fundraiser on Sunday, Sept. 8. This popular event draws hundreds of supporters to the banks of the Cedar River for an afternoon that has become a tradition of honoring our family, friends and neighbors in an extrao…
Join the Hooters Calendar Girls for the Give a Hoot for Self-Help Weekend from Sept. 12-14 in Waverly.
The Shell Rock Swimming Pool will close out its 2019 swim season with two events.
The United States women’s soccer team won on the world’s biggest stage on July 7, when the team defeated the Netherlands, 2-0 in the FIFA Women's World Cup final game in Lyon, France.
The Waverly-Shell Rock Dance Team attended the Marching Auxiliaries (MA) Dance Team camp at Hy-Vee Hall in Des Moines Thursday-Saturday, July 25-27.
Bremer County Sheriff Dan Pickett is asking the public to be vigilant tonight as law enforcement is looking to locate a man and a woman who fled on foot after their vehicle burned down in the wooded area around 39th St. SE, around the Waverly bike trail. A high-speed chase, which started in …
Authorities are in pursuit of a female and male occupants of a vehicle that burned near the bike trail in Waverly, following a high speed chase.
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As a business owner, you can’t afford to ignore your competition. You can’t afford to miss out on the trends affecting your industry. You can’t afford to alienate customers. And here’s one more item to add to the list: You can’t afford not to create a retirement plan for yourself.
The fall field day at Iowa State University’s Northeast Research and Demonstration Farm will be held Aug. 28, from 1 to 4:20 p.m.
Jennifer Staines, Assistant Trust Officer, First National Bank, was recently awarded the Certified Trust & Financial Advisor (CTFA) professional certification from the American Bankers Association.
There are several well-known factors that contribute to aging: smoking, stress, sun exposure and genetics, among them. But what you may not realize is what you put on your plate can also cause you to look beyond your year.
It can sometimes be difficult to get kids outdoors for exercise when the weather is harsh, says Jennifer Jewell, a physical therapist in Jefferson Township. That’s one of the main reasons she enrolled her three children in the iXL Rehab, Exercise and Wellness Center’s Excel Sports Performance youth camp.
While eating meatless has an array of health benefits and even significantly reduces your carbon footprint, there is undoubtedly a price you pay cutting out meat. Vegetarians and vegans commonly struggle with making up these crucial nutrients and vitamins.
Summer vacation is well under way, and with a lack of recess and physical education, parents may be looking for different ways to get kids outside and staying active. A great way to keep children from becoming couch potatoes for three months is to go for a hike.
Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is caused when an individual witnesses or experiences a tragic event. Though they may not surface for months or years, symptoms include sleeplessness, depression, a heightened state of anxiety, flashbacks to the event and avoidance of places, people or activities that are reminders of the trauma. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), 7.7 million adults in the U.S. live with PTSD, though women are more likely to develop this condition.
Watch out for buses as school starts
“Ode to Joy” (Ode an die Freude, L.v.Beethoven & F.Schiller) moves me to tears. Go to www.youtube.com and you’ll find several choices: flash mob gatherings – choose between Sabadell (Spain), Omotesando Hills (Japan), Nürnberg (Germany), or Hartford, Connecticut, there’s even one from Min…
As a business owner, you can’t afford to ignore your competition. You can’t afford to miss out on the trends affecting your industry. You can’t afford to alienate customers. And here’s one more item to add to the list: You can’t afford not to create a retirement plan for yourself.
Nearly four decades ago, Peter Peacock's anonymous sperm donation brought Gypsy Diamond to life. Now, an Australian law erasing sperm donors' anonymity has brought them together.
The New York Times on Wednesday, Sept. 5, printed an op-ed from an anonymous writer who claims to be a senior official in the Donald Trump administration saying, in part, that the president is not fit to hold his current job.
