Father’s Day is a national holiday celebrated on the third Sunday of June each year. However, most are not aware of how Father’s Day came to be. To fully appreciate the day,we must look at the history of Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day was …
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6/21/21
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The evening of June 28th, 1969 patrons at a local New York bar called Stonewall Inn were forced out of the bar and into the streets. The patrons at the time had broken a law by actively and openly dancing with one another. Around 13 people were …
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6/7/21
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Despite an abundance of World War II novels and nonfiction over the past several years, one novel stands out in its depiction of soldiers and civilians.
Until Then by Gail Kittleson of St. Ansgard, Iowa, tells the separate yet slightly merging …
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6/3/21
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Mayor Joseph M. May I applaud you and thank you for your message to all of us. So very true and timely.
With Liberty and Justice for all.
Sincerely,
Dona Opsal
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4/8/21
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As a resident of Estherville for many years, I would like to say how much I appreciate the letters to all of us written by Mayor Joseph May almost every week and published in the Estherville Daily News. He obviously cares deeply about the citizens …
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4/8/21
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I noticed in the March 29 issue of the Estherville News
that my Congressman, Randy Feenstra, visited Estherville
Friday and reviewed solar energy panels at New Fashion
Pork with eight city officials as “guests.” I wish I had …
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4/1/21
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With the world so strange it’s difficult to cull fiction from fact without a footnote, our newsroom had a hard time writing a prank story or creating any journalistic sleight of hand. The levity of April Fool’s Day, even if this year it comes on …
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4/1/21
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President Newhouse,
I am writing today in regard to the upcoming Spring
Commencement at Iowa Lakes. My son is on track to graduate
and will be participating in commencement ceremony.
For a kid who struggled academically thru high …
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3/29/21
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I just want to say this: I
like Oprah, even though I’m
about the only one who never
got a car. I think she went
through a lot and she has a
good heart. I was in junior
high when Prince Harry
was born, so at no time did …
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3/19/21
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Do you run on solar power?
Are you one of those people
who waits through the long,
cold, short, dark days of winter
to finally bask in the glow of
that great big ball of gas in the
sky? Is that why we lose an hour
in the …
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3/12/21
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