This year’s version of the Kossuth County Advance Progress Edition includes features on all 13 Advance Award winners. They are scattered among 46 pages and six separate sections. In between them, you will find advertisements from 90 local businesses and organizations, without whom these awards and this entire salute to community would not be possible.

ALGONA—EXIT Realty Home/Land Properties is pleased to announce that Katie Harman has joined its growing team of dedicated real estate sales professionals.

Monday, Oct. 31

9 a.m.: Presbyterian Church

7 p.m.: Football vs. Humboldt

9 p.m.: Homecoming Coronation

Tuesday, Nov. 1

9 a.m.: Trinity Lutheran Church

10 a.m.: Grace Church

7 p.m.: Candidate Forum

8:30 p.m.: Volleyball vs. Estherville

Wednesday, Nov. 2

9 a.m.: Faith Assembly of God

10:30 a.m.: Divine Mercy Catholic Church

11:30 a.m.: Candidate Forum

ALGONA—Year 2022 has been difficult for everyone, with things ever-changing. As the holiday season approaches, with the ongoing impact of COVID-19, it has brought even more isolation to seniors. They need support now more than ever. In some cases, seniors are living on a very limited income and may not be with their family at Christmas.

Gifts should be wrapped and ready to go when they are dropped off to one of the designated addresses:

To update this information, email news@algona.com or call 515-295-3535. Some changes to schedules may occur without notice.

____Libraries, Museums, Recreation, Events_____

Algona Nativity Scene: Small groups by appointment. Call 515-295-7241.

Algona POW Museum: Saturday and Sunday, 1-4 p.m.

Fundraiser

in Titonka

A quasquicentennial fundraiser soup luncheon is set for Sunday, October 30 at the Buffalo Center Activity Center in Titonka. Free will donation serving chili, chicken noodle and cinnamon rolls.

Noon Kiwanis pancake breakfast

Peter 50th

David and Debra Peter of La Mirada, Calif. will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on November 4. A card shower is planned in their honor. Cards will reach them if sent to 4726 Fairhope Dr., La Mirada, CA 90638.

Cora Lynn Buscher

Matt Buscher and Emerald Shipler of Algona announce the birth of their daughter, Cora Lynn, on October 21, 2022, at Kossuth Regional Health Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces and was 19.5 inches long. Cora is welcomed home by a brother, Braxton Buscher and a sister, Aliyah Buscher.

Maternal grandparents are Chad and Molly Berte of Algona and Bobby and Jenna Shipler of Algona. Paternal grandparent is Liz Buscher of Algona.

LONE ROCK—The Lone Rock Presbyterian Church will host its annual harvest turkey dinner on Sunday, November 6 from 10:30 to 12:30 p.m. in its dining hall. A free-will donation will be accepted to help to defray the expenses of the meal consisting of roast turkey and traditional Thanksgiving side dishes including an array of desserts.

ALGONA—The Des Moines Register names Pharmacists Mutual Insurance Company a winner of the Iowa Pharmacists Mutual Insurance Company Top Workplaces 2022 award by Iowa Top Workplaces for the sixth consecutive year. The award is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by employee engagement technology partner Energage LLC.

DES MOINES—Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig has commented on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report is released weekly April through November.

DES MOINES—Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in Iowa feedlots with a capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 600,000 head on October 1, according to the latest USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service -- Cattle on Feed report.

This was up 2 percent from September but unchanged from October 1, 2021. Iowa feedlots with a capacity of less than 1,000 head had 465,000 head on feed, down 3 percent from last month and down 5 percent from last year.

AMES—The 2023 garden calendar from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, “Garden Lore,” is now available for gardeners and outdoors people alike.

DES MOINES—Iowa egg production during September 2022 was 1.02 billion eggs, up 2 percent from last month but down 18 percent from last year, according to the latest Chickens and Eggs report from the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.

The average number of all layers on hand during September 2022 was 40.1 million, up 3 percent from last month but down 18 percent from the same month last year.

Budget shortfalls challenge county-wide ambulance coverage

By Joanne Roepke Bode

Guest writer

KOSSUTH COUNTY—The field of emergency medicine is facing a great challenge in Kossuth County and across the state: how to continue to provide timely ambulance service in the communities and rural corners of Iowa with fewer volunteers, a handful of staff and no sustainable source of funding.