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Monthly Archives: February 2016

Don Poggensee finds a new photographic challenge, getting pictures of soap bubbles in winter’s cold

IDA GROVE, Iowa, Feb. 20, 2016 — “I had been wanting to try photographing winter soap bubbles,” Don Poggensee tells us.  “I had seen a few images on the Internet, and they looked like a real challenge to record with my camera.” When the weather gave us some bitter cold recently, he decided it was…

February 28, 2016 in Feature Photo.

Terry Rich dares us all to dream it, then do it, and make it fun, too!

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Dec. 21, 2015 – Terry Rich, the most famous native son of our tiny town, has always had a story. Now he’s put the best of them together in a fun-reading, motivational book that has lots of lessons from his colorful career in communications, business and organizational management. His “Dare…

February 27, 2016 in OFFENBLOGGER.

When the Major League Baseball pitcher in your family gets his high school jersey “retired”

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER GRIMES, Iowa, Feb. 2, 2016 — Tony Watson, our great-nephew who is an outstanding relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, came home Friday night, Jan. 29, to Dallas Center-Grimes High School, just outside Des Moines, for the formal retirement of his his prep baseball jersey. “I want to thank you all,” he told the crowd…

February 2, 2016 in Feature Photo.

Honor should compel basketball star Tucker to bench himself now

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, Dec. 10, 2015 – For now, I am boycotting Greene County High School boys basketball games, despite how much I normally enjoy them, and despite how much I’ve specifically liked watching our likely All-Stater, Trey Tucker, play ball. The 17-year-old Tucker, a junior, is in his third consecutive season in…

February 1, 2016 in Out in Greene County, Iowa.

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