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Pulled Pork’s Sweet 16 is underway

CLIVE — Sixteen Iowa restaurants are now in the brackets for a full-on competition to find Iowa’s best pulled pork sandwich. The month-long contest sponsored by the Iowa Pork Producers Association (IPPA) mimics the March Madness college basketball tournament craze and will follow the same narrowing process that gets restaurants to the “Elite 8” and “Final Four.” However, in this case, it will be fans who determine the winner as Iowans vote on the restaurant in the competition which they think serves the best pulled pork sandwich. The play-offs will be fast and furious, ...

Sit back and relax

There’s a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘sit back and relax’ at Fort 8 Theatre, 1417 Central Ave. All eight auditoriums at the Cinema Entertainment Corporation theatre are being remodeled with brand new Palliser leather reclining seats — 478 of them. Auditoriums No. 1 and ...

Johnson wins award for Backpack Buddies

Mike Johnson, co-owner of Calvert & Johnson Insurance Services, has received an award for his work with Fort Dodge Noon Sertoma and its Backpack Buddies program. West Bend Mutual Insurance presented its Spirit of the Silver Lining Award to Johnson this week, and also made a $10,000 ...

Connecting farmland owners with farmland seekers

The website FindAFarmer.net, which is managed by Practical Farmers of Iowa, recently underwent a redesign in order to better serve landowners and land seekers. Steve Carlson, next generation coordinator at PFI, said FindAFarmer.net was launched in 2011 on a much smaller scale and has been updated throughout the past eight years. “Due to the nature of technology, the website needs updated, upgraded every couple of years,” he said. “We did an overhaul to try to modernize the website, but also added a few new tools and bells and whistles to make it more friendly. We have been able ...

SMCH to sell Community Pharmacies

LAKE CITY — Stewart Memorial Community Hospital has agreed to sell Community Pharmacies — the hospital’s retail pharmacies located in Lake City, Lake View, Rockwell City, and Gowrie, according to a press release from Stewart Memorial Hospital. Pharma340, of Coralville, will buy Community Pharmacies. The transfer process is anticipated to be complete by July 2019, according to Cindy Carstens, CEO of SMCH. “As providers of health care, our goal is to always provide the best care possible to every patient, every time,” Carstens said in a written statement. “Our pharmacy ...

Scents that bring smiles

MANSON — What started as a class project became a career for Janis Miller, of Manson. Miller was a student in the accounting program at Iowa Central Community College when she and three other students were tasked with marketing a product. That product was scented candles. “We ...