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Garden Club appreciates support

To the editor: The Fort Dodge Federated Garden Club expresses appreciation and thanks to all who supported our recent 18th annual garden tour. To the homeowners and gardeners who so graciously displayed your gardens to the public, thank you. We know that you lovingly tend your gardens routinely, and that you gave extra time and effort to showcase your gardens for our tour. We also thank The Messenger for publicity and photo coverage, the area businesses who allowed us to post flyers, Becker Garden Center for handling the advance tickets, and all who bought tickets to view the yards ...

Appreciates help with Stay A-Breast event

To the editor: Over $7,600 was raised after expenses from this year’s Stay A-Breast making the six-year total at almost $60,000 raised with the funds being evenly split between the Trinity Cancer Center and the American Cancer Society. We did it! Together, we are making a difference. Thank you to those who swam, donated, purchased at-shirt or shared information about the event and thank you to the following people for their help and support: My family, Hans Madsen, Chad Thompson, Britt Kudla and The Fort Dodge Messenger, The FDSCSD, Matt Ellsbecker, Matt McCormack, FDSH, Lindsay ...

Votes not there to impeach

To the editor: Since the effort to prove collusion has failed after two and a half years, many Democrats have moved on to “obstruction” and the call for impeachment. Those Democrats seem to think impeachment on a charge of obstruction is a slam dunk. It will be interesting to see the exact charges brought forth by the House and even more interesting to see the evidence. From the beginning, Trump felt the collusion investigation was a “witch hunt” and was surely frustrated as months turned into years of resistance by Democrats, mainly because they hate him and don’t care if ...

Oakland Cemetery Walk was a success

To the editor: The 17th annual Oakland Cemetery Walk was a great success thanks to several people and businesses. We would like to take the time to thank them: DART bus, Iowa Central Community College, Friendship Haven, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Gunderson Funeral Home, Graham Tire, The Messenger, C & S Products, Bruce’s Funeral Home, Shimkat Motors, Calvert & Johnson Insurance, Party Productions & Ashley, Meg Beshey, Kemna Auto, Becker Florist, Bill Grady, United Bank of Iowa, Alpha Media, Webster County Genealogical Society, Webster County Historical Society, Fort Dodge Public ...

Disappointed at Oakland Cemetery

To the editor: When I visited Oakland Cemetery where some of my relatives in the five Haviland families that settled here decades ago and planted the huge apple orchard south of North Lawn are buried, I was saddened to find the flag I had left in the ground (because there was no flag holder for my World War I great-uncle) with six cuts by a weed trimmer and one complete piece gone. I would have appreciated your removing the remnants of the flag rather than leave it in shreds. At least Memorial Park was spared this. Susan Erickson Eagle Grove

Volunteers work at Memorial Park

To the editor: I would like to give a shout out to the good people of Fort Dodge. On May 23, my wife and I went to Memorial Park Cemetery to decorate family graves. I was very upset that the grass was 8 to 10 inches tall and a lot of headstones were covered with grass. I vented on Facebook. On May 24, someone posted that the owner was having a health problem. On May 25, Bradley Edgerton asked for people to come out with their mowers and help out. I showed up at 10:30 Monday morning and saw one young man mowing the north end of the park. I found out later that it was Ryan Vanderpool ...