First December thoughts and festive cookie recipes from The Rock Valley Bee
Pam Thorsen reflects on the Christmas season with card planning and quirky family moments. She shares two favorite colored cookie recipes with almond, molasses, and candy cane shapes, plus icing ideas and variations. The Rock Valley Bee invites signed letters to the editor.
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Todd
Nuny Mother
Flag desecration prompts community response in Rock Valley
In a Rock Valley Bee letter to the editor dated December 1 1977 a resident recalls four flag thefts over ten years and describes securing a flagpole with reinforced pipe. The writer links Patriotism to the poem In Flanders Field urging readers to fight hatred and indifference.
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Roger
A. Johnson
Flanders Field
Rock Valley Published Weekly on Thursdays
Rock Valley’s official weekly newspaper marks a 90 year community tradition. Valley Publishing Inc publishes the Rock Valley paper with staff including Marge Harmelink, Geri Koldenhoven, Pam Thorson, Cheri Gacke, Pam Van Holland, Dorothy Sage, and others.
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Valley Publishing Inc
Rock Valley, Iowa
Cheri Gacke
Pam van Holland
Dorothy Sage
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