Please wait to be seated

By Paul Avery, Pastor at Hillside Baptist Church in Algona

If you think snowmobiles are a modern invention, think again. There was· one roaring down ice-covered Algona streets back in 1915. The late Homer (“Doc”) Kelley is shown below with his creation.

Of my life and times with Christopher Robin

Christopher Robin has disappeared. For those who don’t remember, Christopher Robin is the stray cat I’ve been feeding for seven years. His mother, Saint Francis, was the first to sit on my open side porch and meow prettily for food. One day, St. Francis brought her three kittens to be fed. That was the first clue I had that St. Francis was a girl.

To the Editor:

The Department of Purposeful Inefficiency

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down...We want to put them in trauma.”

--quote from Russell Vought, creator of Project 2025 and current head of the OMB: Office of Management and Budget.

Funds for new trees and treatments for EAB

By Barb Smith, City of Algona

This is the time of year many people start thinking about ways to improve their yard, gardens and landscaping around the home. When it comes to taking care of these spring tasks, the City of Algona has programs and services that can help.

Horse sale next Saturday

175 Years Ago

Be it remembered that Iowa voted Franklin K. Pierce for president.

150 Years Ago

Town and County. <+> Hundreds of acres of wheat are already sown, and if the weather continues favorable, the sowing of wheat, oats, and barley will be generally through with by the tenth of April.

125 Years Ago

Hearing God’s message for our lives today, Scripture Luke 4: 16-30

By Robert EnTin, Co-Pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Algona

Brian Buscher [driver] of Algona built this 1923 T-Roadster by himself, only to see it damaged, along with another one of his cars, in the tornado here June 28. With a little help from his friends, however, he was able to take part in the Fourth of July parade. They pushed it along the entire parade route as one of the cars entered by the North Iowa Street Rod Association.

A memoir of a mother’s decline from Alzheimer’s disease

By Michael Tidemann

Child of Earth and Starry Heaven

L. Annette Binder

Wandering Aengus Press

ISBN 9798218516765

$14.99

To the Editor:

Manufactured and purposeful trauma

Russ Vought, author of Project 2025 and now the head of the OMB, said this recently:

"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to NOT want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down … We want to put them in trauma.”

Celebrating Doctors’ Day and welcoming new providers

By Dar Elbert, KRHC

Basic life skills should be required learning

As legislators and common folk debate what subjects or topics should — or should not — be taught in public schools, I can’t help but think of some of the important life skills I learned in one class that I hope are still being taught today.

Concert Association organized

175 Years Ago

The name of Fort Clark has been changed to Fort Dodge.

150 Years Ago

The present term of Algona College is to close on Tuesday next, March 30th. Monday and Tuesday are to be devoted to examinations, and on Tuesday evening there will be literary exercises by the students. We understand that the public are invited to be present at all these exercises.

Seeds of Spring

By Briton Nelson, Associate Pastor at St. John's Lutheran, Burt and Trinity Lutheran, Algona

I wrote some time ago about my adventures with my Lifeline button - mainly that I bumped it accidentally, thereby setting off an alarm that had neighbor Dan rushing over to see if I was okay (he and Denise are first on the call list). When I dutifully dialed the number on the back of the Lifeline thing to say I was okay, a pleasant voice answered, “Murphy’s Pizza, may I help you?” I like pizza as well as the next person, but not so much as to have it delivered from Tyler, Texas.