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‘Cash for Cougars’ Phone-a-Thon is Monday

MANSON — On Monday evening, the Manson Northwest Webster Education Foundation will sponsor its 22nd annual “Cash for Cougars” Phone-a-Thon. This event has been very successful in past years at soliciting and accepting pledges and raising funds for MNW Seniors to use for college expenses. Last year’s “Cash for Cougars’ telethon raised over $8,000 in donations, which were distributed to those seniors who helped with the event. With college costs continuing to rise, another successful year is hoped for as well. All monies generated through this telethon are distributed to ...

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When Greg Edmondson began college in the ’70s as a biology student, he couldn’t have imagined that he would go on to become a well known artist, displaying his works across the country, including an exhibit at the Blanden Memorial Art Museum in Fort Dodge. Even though Edmondson had ...

King Band Irish concert Sunday

The second in a series of three indoor concerts by the Karl L. King Municipal Band of Fort Dodge will be held at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Fort Dodge Middle School Auditorium, 800 N. 32nd St. There is no admission charge, with these concerts being provided free of charge to everyone by the City of Fort Dodge. Conductor of the band is Jerrold P. Jimmerson, with Dan Cassady as the assistant conductor and Paul Bloomquist serving as announcer. This concert is the band’s traditional Irish Concert in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. Many familiar Irish tunes will be performed, including ...

Little Luncheonette of Terror

Strange things are happening at Fort Dodge Middle School. Odd frequencies on the CB radio. Cats walking down the street backwards. Ice melting in the freezer. Earthquakes in the middle of lunch. All of these strange happenings seem to have one thing in common — a mysterious being from the ...

FD Choral Society unites for music

Fort Dodge Choral Society will present “Together Again for the First Time,” a celebration of famous musical partnerships, at 3 p.m. today at Trinity United Methodist Church, 828 N. 25th St. The concert is filled with familiar tunes from Broadway shows and popular artists. Guest ...

‘The First Kennedys’ gives insight to early years of a dynasty

A fresh new page. No matter how old you are, that’s always a treat: the first clean page in a new book or journal. It’s like a spritz of chilled water on a hot day; like crisp, clean sheets on a hotel bed. A new page, a fresh start, a different step, as in the new book “The First Kennedys” by Neal Thompson, a whole new life of opportunity. On his way home from reporting on the accident that killed John Kennedy, Jr., Neal Thompson drove past the cemetery where his Irish grandparents lay and he began to think about his roots. His grandfather, Patrick, and his grandmother, ...