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Today Matt Cosgrove River’s Edge Discovery Center: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., 20 N. First St. Free admission. Noon Lions: 11:30 a.m., The Lion’s Den, 731 Exposition Drive. Blanden Memorial Art Museum: Noon to 5 p.m., 920 Third Ave. S. Admission is free. A.A. 12 x 12 Group: Noon, 1408 Fifth Ave. S. A.A. As Bill Sees It Group: 7 p.m., 1408 Fifth Ave. S. Thursday PICA (Pride in Community Appearance): 9 to 11 a.m., meet at the parking lot area at Kenyon Road and Eighth Street. Matt Cosgrove River’s Edge Discovery Center: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., 20 N. First St. Free admission. Blanden ...

Iowa Lottery

Monday, Sept. 14 Iowa Pick 3 midday 0-8-4 Iowa Pick 3 evening 6-6-1 Iowa Pick 4 midday 6-8-9-0   Iowa Pick 4 evening 9-8-5-1 Millionaire for Life 1-12-37-40-44 Lucky Ball is 4 Powerball 19-20-57-61-67 Powerball is 22 Powerplay is 2 Powerball Jackpot $2-7-1 million Tuesday, Sept. 15 Iowa Pick 3 midday 9-0-4 Iowa Pick 4 midday 5-0-1-4

Mother’s milk gone sour

"Money is the mother's milk of politics," said Jesse M. Unruh, who in the '60s was a powerful Democratic politician and speaker of the California State Assembly. It is a disgrace, if much is disgraceful these days, that we spend so much on getting people elected to Congress, who do little or ...

correx

Due to inaccurate information provided to The Messenger, the date of the Afro Latino festival was incorrect in an article in Tuesday’s edition of The Messenger. The festival is today.

Did Iowa’s largest beginning farmer tax credit create more farms?

As a boy growing up in Spencer, Iowa, Trent Walker spent summers helping on his grandfather’s farm, picturing that he someday would follow in his grandfather’s footsteps and become a farmer himself. During harvest season, he trick-or-treated at his grandpa’s grain bin site as trucks ...