Welcome to the Diet Club. This is the comedy club for people who feel the need to diet but would rather laugh about it. The season of excess calories is upon use. All those high-calorie holiday foods and sitting around watching TV during the cold weather will take their toll. Soon it will ...
Dear Citizens of Webster City, First, I want to thank all those kind souls who have already sponsored an Angel from the Angel Trees located at Kendall Young Library and Peoples Credit Union. The Webster City Ministerial Association is proud to administer this program, and your generosity is ...
This week, as I held my dear friend’s hand, I tried my darndest to focus on gratitude. She is 93 and dying. Frankly, she is looking forward to it. But God hasn’t yet allowed her to cross the threshold from this world to the next and that is testing her patience. She is grateful she ...
Once in a while, the matter of choosing a subject to write on can become a bit overwhelming. With Veteran’s Day taking place last week and a gathering of our kids and grandkids the same week, I have to admit it was daunting to come up with an individual to cover in this column. So, in ...
When I learned to read I quickly became a little nerd, reading anything I could get my hands on. It’s amazing what a kid can learn by reading, especially when he finds stuff he shouldn’t be reading. That’s a topic for another column. While I have learned a great deal from reading, ...
As I write this, all the news (whether it’s fit to print or not) is about the elections of 2024. I am not going to write about politics or anything else quite as controversial. I am, however, going to write about something that does have local historical merit. One of the results of ...