Last Call OACDG Scholarships High school seniors living in Mahaska County and attending any high school are eligible to apply for an Oskaloosa Area Chamber & Development Group Scholarship. Pick up an application from your school counselor or from the Oskaloosa Area Chamber office. Scholarships will be offered in the amounts of $500 and...
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EATING AT HOME IMPROVES YOUR OVERALL WELL-BEING The Eat At Home Missouri website seeks to encourage consumers to eat together as a family, help people plan better meals, and prepare healthier choices. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Obesity has become a raising concern in America. For instance, the National Center for Health Statistics states that obesity...
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Ottumwa Regional Health Center’s parent company Regional Care Hospital Partners along with Medical Mobile Disaster Relief in Nashville, TN, will be building a 40- bed hospital and outpatient clinic in the town of Thomazeau outside of Port-au-Prince. With this, several staff members will be joining a relief team that will be traveling to the...
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Gary Brooks of Ottumwa has been appointed to the position of Staff Chaplain for Ottumwa Regional Health Center. Pastor Brooks primary role is to support the spiritual needs of the in and out patients at the hospital along with conducting support groups in the Cancer Center. ” He will also be supporting the needs...
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On January 2nd, 2013, at approximately 1:30 P.M., officials from the Ottumwa Community School District reported the theft of the Ottumwa High School’s victory bell. The bell was reported to have been stolen between December 28th and December 31st, 2012. The bell was mounted on a trailer and described to be bronze in color...
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brought to you by Community 1st Credit Union This is your opportunity to nominate the person in your community making a positive difference. Do you know someone within your local community that has made a positive impact? A hero? A difference maker? Someone who has influenced the people of your community in...
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Meet Gabriella van Rij International Activist, Advocate and Author of “With All My Might” and “I Can Find My Might” As a frail brown-skin child adopted from a Pakistani orphanage struggling for acceptance in an all-white European school, international activist and author Gabriella van Rij learned at an early age what it’s like growing...
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As a result of a legislative mandate presented earlier this spring, to reduce Iowa’s Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) from 13 to six, Seneca AAA (Ottumwa area) and Generations AAA (Davenport area) chose to work together to create and facilitate a new service area comprised of their existing counties with the addition of the...
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Scholarship application forms are now available for the Fahrney Education Foundation Scholarship Program. This year, 86 students received $215,000 in scholarships. In the thirty-three years of the existence of the Fahrney Education Foundation Scholarship, 1,142 students have been recipients of 2,965 scholarships totaling $5,576,000. The scholarship fund was established by the trust estate of...
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The rent reimbursement form has been redesigned this year. The form can be accessed online at http://www.iowa.gov/tax/forms/11541320.pdf. If you choose not to calculate the amount, the Department of Revenue will do it for you. If you’ve applied for a rent reimbursement before, you will receive a pre-printed form in early January 2013. The Department...
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