Plan now for family fire prevention

By Mitch Ulrick

Fire Chief

The Algona Fire Department will take part in a 100 year tradition in a couple of weeks when we recognize Fire Prevention Week from October 9 through 15.

Christian Greeting Card 101

By Rev. Thomas Cowell

Pastor, St. John’s Lutheran Church, Burt

Partnership Pastor, Trinity Lutheran Church

ALGONA—First Congregational United Church of Christ, in recognition of the International Day of Peace, will host a service of music and prayer for peace on Sunday, September 25 at 4 p.m. on the west lawn of the church, located at 315 South Moore Street in Algona.

Thursday,  Sept 15

Beef stew, whole wheat roll, coleslaw, fruit, dessert

11 a.m. – Exercise

12 p.m. – Kiwanis

1 p.m. – Cribbage

Friday,  Sept 16

Ham balls, roasted sweet potatoes, mixed vegetables, dessert

10 a.m. – Bingo

Monday,  Sept 19

Scalloped potatoes and ham, green beans, pudding

10 a.m. – Bingo

6:30 Kiwanis Bingo

Tuesday,  Sept 20

As Bishop Garrigan gets ready to celebrate their Homecoming for 2022, take time to enjoy a glimpse into the past at their Homecoming festivities from the October 10, 1977 issue of the Kossuth County Advance newspaper. Recognize anyone?

Blessed and Tested

By Rev. Kent Madison, Pastor, First  Presbyterian Lakota,

In the churches that I serve we have been studying the man Joseph, found in the last several chapters in Genesis.

By Shane Goodman

It was a late-1960s era Volkswagen Beetle, but this car was not owned by any hippie. Quite the contrary. This “Bug,” and several others like it, was owned by a farming family in Kossuth County where I was born and raised.

More questions than answers

I always have more questions than answers every time I drive past a Grassley campaign sign.

Grassley’s campaign slogan, “Grassley Works” is technically a grammatically correct sentence. However, it’s confusing. Not only because it has a dual message, but because both those messages highlight how ineffective Grassley is for Kossuth County. 

By Amanda Schmidt

Superintendent of West Bend-Mallard School

By Jim Sloter

Out of the Past by Gene Miller

150 Years Ago

We need leaders that are pro-life

To the Editor:

Louis Kossuth honored in Hungary to this day

By Gene Miller

Kossuth County contains some of the richest and most fertile farm ground in the world and takes its name from the Hungarian patriot Louis Kossuth.

Louis Kossuth was born in 1802 in Monok, Hungary which was then part of Austria. As an adult he long advocated for a separate Hungarian republic which for a time landed him in prison, but he was eventually released by popular demand.

Of my late-to-the-party shopping adventure 

By Molly MacDonald