By MARY RICHE DES MOINES, Iowa, July 20, 2023 — Dear Team (this includes husband Chuck Offenburger and cousin Ellen Roberts): I’m not riding on RAGBRAI. I fell this past Sunday night during a training ride on one of the recreational trails in the suburb of Johnston. Banged up my knee and shoulder; my helmet…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, July 14, 2023 — There are lots of big, important issues unfolding in Iowa, across the nation and around the world right now. This column isn’t about any of them. The little news here is that Monday this past week, the two chapters of the P.E.O. Sisterhood that co-exist here…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, July 4, 2023 – Oh, it looks so good right now – at 9-feet high, maybe higher, lush, thick, so green. But as I often hear my No. 1 farm pal Doug Lawton say, “You never know.” Who would have predicted a “derecho” on Aug. 10, 2020, causing the Lawtons…
By MARY RICHE JEFFERSON, Iowa, July 1, 2023 — The Greene County Historical Society here has just completed a two-year series of museum programs and exhibits on the history of the 1950s, ’60, and ’70s. My husband Chuck Offenburger was the moderator on Sunday afternoon, June 25, as a group of panelists discussed the social…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER WILLIAMSBURG, Iowa, June 24, 2023 – Back in February, when Drake University in Des Moines announced that its business school was being re-named the “Larry and Kathleen Zimpleman College of Business,” DU President Marty Martin pegged the alumni couple well. “They’re both compassionate, kind people,” Martin told Des Moines Register business writer…