Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and Wedding Plans
Lisa Landegant visited her grandmother Grace Van Middendorp Sunday. Visitors from North Hollywood arrived to attend the wedding of Steve Abma and Lavon Van Den Top on August 12. The Klein family reunion drew 80 people from Minnesota Nebraska South Dakota and Iowa at Valley Park. Various local households hosted guests from Hull Canton Inwood Sioux Rapids Maurice and other nearby communities last week and over the weekend.
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Lisa Landegant
Grace van Middendorp
Esther ,Soltes
Sharon
Patty
North Hollywood
California
Alfred Claussen
Ray Abma
Houston
Texas
Edwin Abma
Steve Abma
Lavon van den Top
Doon
Klein
Hoorays for Margaret Mead and other voices
Editorial roundup notes Mead praising grandparent grandchild bonds, NYT skepticism on Olympic games, a critic labeling Carter squishy, Leslie Fiedler irony, Bee news anxiety, paranoid VFW on Legionnaire's disease, James Flansburg critique of polls, and sharp insights from anonymous mailers and the Iowa Association of School Boards.
Soper Praises Halt in Postal Service Cutbacks
Iowa candidate Joanine Soper commends USPS pause on rural post office closures and Saturday mail cuts in Iowa's Sixth District. She vows to press Congress to preserve rural services, citing rising costs, stagnant service, and large deficits from postwar reforms.
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Joanine Soper
United States Postal Service
Sixth
Iowa
Soper
Superior
Scarville
Congress
Hansen to Play In Second State Meet
Rock Valley star Roger Hansen to compete in the second state baseball tournament in Cedar Rapids starting Friday August 20. He helped Larchwood junior legion to wins over Sioux City and Mapleton earning a Cedar Rapids berth and was named tournament outstanding player after batting .469 and homering in the Sioux City game. Hansen plans to attend Iowa State on a baseball scholarship this fall.
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Roger Hansen
Rock Valley
Marshalltown
Cedar Rapids
Hansen
Larchwood Junior Legion
Sioux City
Mapleton
Larchwood
Sioux
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Society Notes
John Vande Street
Canton
South Dakota
Gilbert Vande Street
Gerald Brands
Inwood
Hubert. Loverink
Joel Kragt
Sioux Rapids
John Kragt
Fenn Oe
Margaret Mead
New York Times
Carter
Leslie Fiedler
VFW
James Flansburg
the Register
Gallup
Harris
The
Iowa Association of School Boards
Reagan
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