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Shenandoah, Iowa, to Paris, France, what a trip! Harriet Welty Rochefort takes a bunch of us along

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER SHENANDOAH, Iowa, Dec. 1, 2020 – Back in the 1960s here in my ol’ hometown, there surely must have been some wondering, “Whatever is going to become of the youngest Welty girl!” You want it short and sweet? In the late ’60s, Harriet Welty meandered half the world by herself, twice jumping…

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Out in Greene County, Iowa

Carla prepares for life on the other side, with help, kindness and care from the angels of hospice

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Nov. 3, 2020 – I slid into bed the other night next to my wife Carla Offenburger, kissed her goodnight and, like I always do, told her I love her. She grabbed my hand, like she always does, then said something real different: “I’m afraid I’m slipping away from you.”…

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Carla started hospice in August, with advice to “live life like you want, until you can’t”

By CARLA OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Sept. 1, 2020 —We won’t forget the date.  August 20, 2020.  We won’t forget the message. On Thursday, August 20, I was to have a routine visit with my oncologist Dr. Matthew Hill, of John Stoddard Cancer Center at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.  Plus another regularly-scheduled infusion…

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Shenandoah must rally to save soda fountain that has long made the best malts on Earth

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER SHENANDOAH, Iowa, Aug. 2, 2020 – Well, I’ll be damned. You’re telling me a business operates for 132 years in a solid, people-serving, community-building way in my hometown – including making the best malts on Earth at its classic soda fountain – and it’s now going belly-up? Not on my watch, brothers…

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Now 60 years a newsie! He started at 13, before he could type. It’s taken him ’round the world.

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, July 12, 2020 — Three things happened this past week that put me in a reflective mood: 1) Lindsay Offenburger, oldest granddaughter, turned 13 and I was telling her what I was doing at that age; 2) after too many years of forgetting to re-subscribe, my new subscription started up for…

Carla’s joy & inspiration in “earthing” is restored, thanks to 125 hours of garden help from friends

By CARLA OFFENBURGER  COOPER, Iowa, July 30, 2020 — Throughout my adult life, gardening has been a real joy for me.  Ever since I’ve had my own yard, I’ve been digging in the dirt, planting seeds and watching things grow. And I’ve been fairly successful at perennials, annuals and vegetables.  I’m just getting started with…

July 29, 2020 in My View from the Front Porch.

Jim Ross Lightfoot: “Get off the couch, turn off TV, get out & make a difference.”

By JIM ROSS LIGHTFOOT WHITE OAK, Texas, June 15, 2020 — My voice has been silent for quite some time. However, I am moved to comment on our current situation in this country we all love. Quite frankly, I am irritated, a bit confused, very tired of corona virus lockdown, appalled and, quite honestly, a…

July 10, 2020 in Guest Column.

Lawton corn head-high on the 4th of July but will it be profitable? “Probably not.”

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, July 4, 2020 — As we were taking our traditional measure of the corn crop and the general health of agriculture on the eve of this Independence Day, our friend and neighbor Karen Lawton hit upon what may be the happiest thing you can say about it right now: “The farm…

July 4, 2020 in Out in Greene County, Iowa.

T.J. Sebolt offers an economic development coup for Jefferson

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, April 30, 2020 — When the advance agenda for this week’s Jefferson City Council meeting reported that one of Iowa’s greatest wrestlers, T.J. Sebolt, would present an economic development proposal, I immediately reserved a chair at the media table — although that really turned out to be a spot on…

May 2, 2020 in Out in Greene County, Iowa.

“Emotional and mental roller coaster ride” is really testing Carla

By CARLA OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, May 2, 2020 — This is way overdue and I apologize to all of you who follow my health updates. It was in January when I gave you my last update – four months ago. What have I been doing? I told you in January that I got a feeding…

May 1, 2020 in My View from the Front Porch.

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