ALGONA—If you’re looking forward to fair food, the Kossuth County fair will offer a variety of tasty treats  to tempt your palette. You will find some long-standing favorites as well as some new ones.

ALGONA—Whether you have entered open class divisions for many years at the Kossuth County Fair or you are a first year participant, there is surely an open class department: culinary, textile, quilting, garden, agriculture, horticulture, floriculture or photography, that will match your talents. 

ALGONA— One of two at-large seats on the Algona City Council is vacant, and the deadline to express interest in holding the seat is next Wednesday, July 28.

ALGONA—Kossuth County supervisors have put on hold a million-dollar-plus drainage ditch repair project after concerns about federal funding for it arose in the past week. That led to a unanimous vote to halt the project in lieu of seeking legal opinions.
The proposed repair project is in Drainage District 4’s main ditch, which is south of Swea City.
 
For the full report, see the July 22 Advance.

FENTON—Lots of activities are planned this weekend for Fenton’s Annual Sweet Corn Days including a street dance featuring Nashville artist Jesse Allen. The Fenton Community Club has been busy planning the event set for Saturday, July 24 and Sunday, July 25 in Fenton.
 
See the full report in the July 22 Advance print edition.
 

ALGONA—The Clover Kids listened intently for the next step from 4-H’er Evelyn Kramer as she walked them step by step through how to make a dragonfly stencil art project. On this particular day, Kramer was teaching the kids three different art projects: string art, Fourth of July cans and dragonfly stencil art.
Kramer, 14, of Algona, this summer conducted workshops at the extension office to help kids make projects they could take to the 2021 Kossuth County Fair.
 

ALGONA—The board of supervisors on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to explore making emergency medical services (EMS) an essential service in Kossuth County.

ALGONA—The 2021 Heritage award was presented to Dr. Kenton Moss and posthumously to Greg and Julie Buchanan last Thursday night prior to the cemetery walk to kick off Founders’ Day weekend. 
 
See the July 15 edition of the Advance for the complete report and biographies.

ALGONA—The Algona School District is planning a job fair on Aug. 2 for teacher associates, food service workers, substitute teacher associates and substitute bus drivers. 
Prospective employees can walk in at anytime from 5 to 7 p.m. in the high school commons area. Interested applicants will have the chance to hear about the open positions and interview that night with building principals and directors.

Community Health of Kossuth Regional Health Center will begin offering a take home COVID-19 test, made available through Test Iowa.
Test Iowa, a free COVID-19 testing program in Iowa, will transition from offering COVID-19 testing at drive through locations throughout the state to providing Iowans access to free, self-administered test kits. Since launching in April of 2020, Test Iowa has processed over 540,000 PCR COVID-19 tests. 

Auxiliary volunteers have returned to service at Kossuth Regional Health Center, with a new volunteer coordinator at the helm.

The following is a press release from Kossuth Regional Health Center:
ALGONA—Kossuth Regional Health Center administrators and physicians will be impacted by a COVID-19 vaccine mandate made by Trinity Health, the umbrella organization for MercyOne.
As an affiliate of MercyOne, the majority of KRHC's employees will not be included in this requirement. It only includes physicians and senior administrators who are employed by MercyOne, most of whom are fully vaccinated.

The Des Moines National Weather Service has produced a weather briefing concerning the potential for severe weather on Wednesday into Wednesday evening.
* WHAT - Severe storms are possible with the main threats of damaging winds and large hail. A few tornadoes may also occur.
* WHERE - Much of central Iowa with highest potential across northern Iowa.
* WHEN - Wednesday afternoon and evening.
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ALGONA—Tom Henry is being honored this year posthumously by the Kossuth County fair board for the many years he spent volunteering his time and energy to the Kossuth County Fair, 4-H and the kids who participated in the livestock shows. Henry believed that 4-H and raising livestock was as important to learning responsibility as anything and instilled that in his children. 

ALGONA— This year’s Kossuth County Fair was already going to be a special one for Al Lauck, farm director and account executive at KLGA radio, as he is marking 50 years of live broadcasting from the fairgrounds in 2021. 
Now the fair will be even more special for Lauck as he has been chosen to receive recognition by the Kossuth County Fair Board as a fair honoree. 
 
Read the full story in the July 8 Advance print edition.