By CARLA OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Nov. 9, 2015 – Cancer-free. Let me repeat the words, cancer-free. I’ve just been on another cancer adventure, for sure. For many of you, this has probably been confusing. Here’s the deal. My cancer, adenoid cystic carcinoma, has no chemotherapy fix, and it doesn’t really respond to radiation. It requires…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER OAKLAND, Iowa, Nov. 17, 2015 — Getting through this southwest Iowa town of 1,500 on U.S. Highway 59 is now taking people a good bit longer than it did a couple months ago. That’s because our artist pal Zack Jones has an eye-grabbing new mural — the whole side of a building…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, Dec. 19, 2015 — There’s a special feeling when you have a Community Christmas Concert, like we did here last Sunday, Dec. 13, and among the featured soloists were Greene County High School seniors David Petersen and Danielle Johnson, both 18 years old, and another soloist was Doyle Carlson, an 83-year-old retired farmer. The young, the…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Nov. 10, 2015 – The late Glenn Leggett, who was president of Grinnell College here in Iowa from 1965 to ’74, later wrote a recollection of those turbulent times of student activism. He titled it, “There is trouble running any college. When you are president, the trouble happens to you.”…
By DON NORTH FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 7, 2015 – The author, a Vanderbilt University classmate and good friend of Chuck Offenburger, has spent most of his career as headmaster of private college-preparatory schools in North Carolina and Texas. He retired in 2013 from The Kinkaid School in Houston, but is spending this year as…