ALGONA—The Kossuth County Vaccine Call Center will be open on Thursday, February 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to schedule appointments for a Wednesday, Feb. 24, vaccine clinic. The Call Center phone number is 515-395-9111.

WESLEY—She asked him to her junior prom.
“I thought he was a pretty neat guy,” she said.
“And then nothing really happened,” he said. “But then she invited me to her senior prom. After that, I thought maybe I wanted to date her, so I asked her for a date and we started dating. That continued for two years and then we made the big step.”
David Youngwirth and Helen Dorweiler literally were the boy and girl next door.
 

ALGONA—The Algona Brownies were a baseball team from 1898-1904 and organized again in the 1930s. They won at least one state semipro tournament. Between 1898 and 1901 the only reference to their team name was the Algona Base Ball Association.

ALGONA—Algona Community School District’s Board of Education got an update on legislative, financial, tax levy and personnel matters at its meeting Monday, Feb. 8.
Superintendent Joe Carter reported on the preliminary budget for fiscal year 2022, which starts July 1, 2021. 
“Our tax rate will be very close – within pennies – to the rate that we approved last year,” Carter said. 
 
Get the details in the Feb. 11 print edition of the Advance.

ALGONA—Seven community organizations requested funds from the city of Algona for the next budget year. Some of their representatives provided information about their activities and details about their requests during a city council work session Monday evening, Feb. 8.

ALGONA—Kossuth Regional Health Center (KRHC) will take the next step in a renovation project by holding a public hearing on the project next Wednesday, Feb. 17 at noon. The hospital board of trustees will hold a special meeting for the hearing.

LU VERNE—The fourth graders at Lu Verne Elementary were excited to participate in Ag Day this year. They had the opportunity to learn about how byproducts from our crops are used in Iowa and the embryology of an egg. 
The embryology unit started with an introduction into the process of hatching chickens. The fourth graders then got to take six fertilized eggs into our classroom and watch them as they developed. 
 
See the full story in the Feb. 11 Advance print edition.

ALGONA — The Girl Scout Cookie Program kicks off in Iowa Feb. 1, and Girl Scouts are selling in creative, socially distant, and contact-free ways to keep themselves and their customers safe. Girl Scouts are adapting their sales methods to share the joy of Girl Scout Cookies through the largest girl-led entrepreneurship program.

ALGONA—The Kossuth County Genealogical Society (KCGS) has published a new book, and it is sure to be a hit with history buffs and those interested in local people.

ALGONA—The Algona Senior Center was filled to capacity and people were being turned away at the door on Wednesday, Jan. 27. Health care professionals from Kossuth Regional Health Center were there to answer questions and address concerns regarding the next phase of the COVID-19 vaccine. Dan Peterson introduced the speakers and said “We can leave here a better informed community.”

ALGONA—Brooke Sudol is resigning her position from the Algona City Council, effective Feb. 15.
The seat Sudol holds is an at-large position, meaning all residents of Algona are eligible to hold the seat and vote for it in an election.

ALGONA—Kossuth County supervisors Tuesday morning said they are willing to increase their contribution to the county emergency medical services budget by $30,000, but only if the city of Algona agrees to contribute at least $75,000 in property tax revenue from its next budget.
 
Get the full story in the Feb. 4 print edition.

ALGONA—Algona Municipal Utilities (AMU) trustees got a briefing about a potential wind farm energy power purchase agreement during their monthly meeting Jan. 27.
According to John Bilsten, AMU’s general manager, a preliminary review is starting on a proposed 10-year agreement to buy wind energy from an established wind farm at a set price.

ALGONA – Local public health officials have announced an additional COVID-19 vaccine clinic on February 10, with Call Center hours of Thursday, February 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to register for an appointment.

Eric Wieland, a 1994 graduate from Algona High School, closed out 2020 as a Colonel in the Iowa National Guard.
Wieland received word in March of 2020 that he was up for the promotion to Colonel in the National Guard, which is commissioned by Congress. 
 
Learn more about this in a full feature in the Jan. 28 Kossuth County Advance.