Markets Brace for Shortened Week Amid Christmas Holiday
The stock and commodity markets will close at noon Wednesday for Christmas with lighter activity expected. Treasury bills, GDP, personal income, durable goods, home sales, and earnings reports from ConAgra Foods American Greetings and Freddie Mac frame a holiday week of data releases and market closings.
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Lynn Rowat a Des Moines Paperboy to Des Moines Register
Lynn Rowat of Iowa City age 53 works as market president at West Bank overseeing two Iowa City branches. He emphasizes honesty and timeliness as guiding principles and plans future growth for West Bank in Eastern Iowa and the Iowa City area.
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Iowa Scholarship Fund
Iowa
Office holiday parties scale back in lean year
Companies face a tight end of year balance as they host December events. Marriott properties see stable party numbers but fewer lavish spends, favoring departmental lunches over large corporate celebrations to preserve funds for bonuses and tough business conditions.
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Washington Post
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Marriott
Renaissance
Washington
Quail Business Targets Hunting Clubs Amid Population Downturn
Ray and Donna Schulte expanded a medicated game bird program to avoid disease and improve hatching. They seek contracts with major hunting clubs as Iowa quail decline follows a national trend, with biologists citing farming changes and pesticide use reducing weed cover critical to quail habitat.
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Norway
Iowa
Todd Bogenschutz
Boone
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Cable Dog Fred keeps life on line after army days
Fred, nicknamed Cable Dog for his training in building and moving communications cables, recalls avoiding a repeat court appearance and instead joining the National Guard. He later became a Mediacom system technician, sobriety for 12 years, remarriage, baptism at 41, and plans a faith-driven retirement while continuing civilian work on main lines.
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Iowa
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United States
Hazel
Cedar Hills Evangelical Free Church
Mason City man honored for stopping kidnapping
Mason City pizza delivery man Chris Hamlin was honored by U.S. Attorney Charles Larson after he called police when masked gunmen attempted a kidnap in downtown Mason City on June 16, 2002. Hamlin’s action helped prosecute eight drug traffickers and earned him a $500 Crime Stoppers reward.
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Mason City
U.S
Charles Larson
Chris Hamlin
C.J. Williams
Hamlin
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