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Pancakes, planes support Brushy Creek Honor Flight

Pancakes, airplanes and a community effort at the Fort Dodge Regional Airport helped to raise more than $5,600 to send area veterans to Washington, D.C. The Fort Dodge Regional Airport hosted a pancake fly-in fundraiser for the Brushy Creek Area Honor Flight on Sept. 12, raising $5,679.53 ...

In another realm

FARNHAMVILLE — For a few brief shining hours Saturday afternoon, Bob Meyer, of Callender, wasn’t Bob Meyer, of Callender. Instead he was Merlin the Magician from the Realm of Camelot. He was visiting the Kingdom of Farnhamville to partake in the wonders of the town’s inaugural ...

Ulrich outlines Pell grant impact in DC

By BILL SHEA bshea@messengernews.net Iowa Central Community College President Jesse Ulrich was in Washington, D.C., Friday telling national leaders how a new version of federal student aid will make an impact locally. That new form of aid is called Workforce Pell. Iowa Central is the ...

Keeping your money safe from scammers

Michael Larson, commercial market president at First Interstate Bank, shared one of the things that keeps employees at the institution busy on Monday and Tuesday mornings during a Community Fraud and Cyber Security Training session at the Fort Dodge Public Library Saturday morning — ...

Not once, but twice

April Wilson has given away a piece of her liver and one of her kidneys. She says she'd do it again if she could. In October 2019, Wilson donated a lobe of her liver to save her mother, Mary Lou Walker, of Fort Dodge, who had been diagnosed with non-alcoholic cirrhosis. Five years later, ...