The Paper Vol. 11 No. 23 Our Town , Our Paper! www.thepapernow.com Laurens, Iowa October 4, 2017 Local News Please plan to attend the Laurens Volunteer Firefighters Association’s Annual Pancake & Sausage Breakfast on Sunday, October 8th from 8:00 am to noon. Come and enjoy a great breakfast and support your local Firefighters! Laurens Fire Department — Front Row (l-r): Allison Graff, Marc Stewart, captain; Pat Murray, chief; Dennis Sandvig, captain; Dennis Leuer, captain; Brian Hoffman, Julian Johnsen, Cory Bailey, and Troy Stockwell. Back Row (l-r): Mike Hertz, John Runneberg, Jake Graff, captain; Brad Tendal, Joe Ahlers, Ben Storms, Matt Hertz, Al Sandvig, Justin Bailey, and Dave Bailey, assistant chief. Absent from photo: Matt Tate, captain; and Mike Hayek. Photo by Chris Vrba Biggest Little Paper In Town! © Copyright My Laurens, Inc., 2010 All Rights Reserved. 1 Announcements Manufacturing Day 2017 IOWA’S YEAR OF MANUFACTURING 10.06.2017 Manufacturing OPEN HOUSES in Pocahontas County Please join us on Manufacturing Day for some refreshments! FISHER HYDRAULICS Where: 603 Highway 10 West, Laurens, IA 50554 When: Friday, October 6 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Plant Tour • Refreshments • Meet Our Staff Fisher Hydraulics is a leader in manufacturing quality custom engineered hydraulic cylinders. We serve the agriculture, railroad, and aerial work platform industries. We have remained committed to delivering excellence, having manufactured solid solutions for the toughest applications. BOBALEE HYDRAULICS Where: 137 N East Street, Laurens, IA 50554 When: Friday, October 6 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Refreshments • Learn About What We Do • Meet Our Staff Bobalee Hydraulics has been delivering State Of The Art Technology for more than 40 years. Our commitment to quality begins by meeting customer specific individual needs. From the initial design to manufacturing field support, we combine technology and qualified personnel to give quality and confidence in every product. SPONSORED BY: Our Town Our Paper! 2 At the Library & Advertising Library Foundation is, the frosting At the Library that makes our library so much more with Glenda Mulder Start your weekend off fun! The frosting is the entertaining with supper at the Club October 4, 2017 programs the Foundation sponsors, on Friday night, the CD audiobooks, the kids’ October 6th! Weekly We’ve gotten lots of new fiction e-books, preschool outreach tubs, Special or you may order lately, including: Origin by Dan Summer Reading supplies and off the full menu! Brown, The Last Balladby Wiley programs, and if all goes as planned, The club is open Cash, Wicked Deeds by Heather next summer, the Music Garden! All Monday-Friday for lunch Graham, Fairytale by Danielle Steel, this frosting, I mean funding, comes from 11 a.m-1 p.m. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan, from donations. So, to continue, we The Christmas Roomby Catherine need your financial support. Limited lunch menu and to Anderson, Witches Tree by M.C. Speaking of that, make plans to go ordering available. Beaton, Christmas Blessing by Melody join us for pancakes October 19th. Carlson, Stolen Marriage by Diane The Kiwanis will again be flipping Chamberlain, Don't Let Go by their famous pancakes. All proceeds Harlan Coben, Winter Solstice by go to the Library Foundation to Elin Hildebrand, Lies She Told by continue our fun projects, and start Cate Holahan, Christmas in London that new one – the Music Garden! by Anita Hughes, Western Star by I have a plan that will inspire your Craig Johnson and Merry and Bright support of that project. But I better by Debbie Macomber. not spill too much until I know if it We also received some interesting will come together! looking nonfiction: Killing England by Bill O'Reilly, The World of Laura COMING EVENTS Send Your News to Ingalls Wilder by Marta McDowell, It • Tot Time Every Monday at 10 am Takes Two; Our Story by Jonathan & • Take it Tuesday - 1st Tuesday 6:30 Drew Scott and Sky Below by Scott • Open Scrapbooking –4th Tuesday The Paper! Parazynski. (this month only) 5-8 pm I had someone ask me the • Card Making – 3rd Tuesday (this www.thepapernow.com difference between the Library and month only) at 6:30 pm 100% User the Library Foundation, so I think • Book Club 4th Monday at 7 pm it’s time for a refresher. You all know • Library Foundation’s Pancake Generated Content! how much I like food, so I’ll take Supper 5-7 October 19 this opportunity to use one of my • Magician Larry Dunbar 7 pm favorite things in an analogy. The October 31st (of course!) library is publicly funded and that • Death Comes for Us All (Victorian Subscribe and budget takes care of our regular death and funeral practices) – 7 pm operating expenses. Think of that as Wednesday, November 1st Submit TODAY! the cake – it’s pretty good by itself, but how could it be better? Frosting, of course! Well, that’s what our Biggest Little Paper In Town! 3 Announcements & Advertising interacting,” Tootle said. “And if you talking about how to make things Leading don’t have people interacting, you happen.” don’t have people reacting and you Program pilots in Kossuth and Lee Communities don’t have the ability to move forward. counties helped evaluate and assess its A town can remain the same or it can overall impact and improve it. This Program Helps go into decline, but to do better, we’re year, the program hopes to expand to going to have to work at it.” as many as four counties, including Communities Leading Communities is built Henry County. around understanding the importance The goal is to spread the program Build Local of community leadership and learning even wider, and get people involved the four key competencies associated and excited about their communities with that leadership: understanding across Iowa. Engagement community leadership and the “We need to be aware of When Iowa State University’s Small community, correctly identifying communities and more engaged,” Town Project asked small-town Iowa community issues and framing ideas, Tootle said. “We want people to learn residents about why they weren’t more building social relationships and how to plan. And not just plan – but involved in their communities, two capital, and mobilizing resources for develop and implement the strategies answers were revealing. community action. Participants learn they’ve planned.” No. 1: No one asked me. how to use tools relating to those core No. 2: I just don’t feel like I have the competencies to address community time. issues and opportunities. “We find people want to be The program involved,” said Deborah Tootle, an is taught in six associate professor with Iowa State’s sessions, each lasting two to three Department of Sociology and Iowa Ladies Night Out! State University Extension and hours, and gives Outreach Community Economic participants skills Development. “But they don’t know to bring people BooBS, how to be involved.” together to change A new program aims to change for the good of their community. er that thinking. Leading Communities: Be Bubbly, A Place-Based Leadership Program “We’re part of the & Bites has been developed by ISU university and want Extension and Outreach and the to make sure the University of Wisconsin-Extension. extension programs Tuesday, October 201 Based on cutting-edge community we provide are based H 6-9 p.m. leadership research, it is designed to on research,” Tootle O R E P E C U simultaneously provide participants said. “It’s learning • FA ITH • with community-based skills while and understanding meeting the specific needs of the places how we Join us for a fun Ladies Night Out!! communicate and where they live and work. $25 ticket gets you drinks, a wine glass to take home, By building community identify local issues, engagement, small towns can retain or learning about door prizes, endless munchies & a night of fun! regain their vibrancy. social networks *Tickets must be purchased by Oct. 5 to guarantee a door prize* “If you don’t have community and building social 5 drinks per ticket - Choose from wines, wine slush, vodka slush and beers. capital – bringing engagement, you don’t have people *Live Music by Rod Johnson* Tickets available at: Woodley Insurance it all together and Event held at: Laurens Country Club, 12582 Hwy 10, Laurens Our Town Our Paper! 4 Announcements Bridal Shower Thank You! The Paper Whether you attended our party or Published weekly by Join us for a come and go bridal sent a card, we thank you for all the My Laurens, Inc. shower for Destiny Wiley, daughter kind wishes on the celebration of our 112 Walnut St. of Mike & Kathy Wiley. Destiny is 60th wedding anniversary. All your Laurens, IA 50554 the bride-elect of Tyler Rommel of thoughts were greatly appreciated. Polk City. Phone: A come and go bridal shower for Stanley and Donna Erickson (712) 841-2684 Destiny will be held on Saturday, October 7 from 2-4 p.m. at the Fax: United Methodist Church in (712) 841-4662 Laurens. th The couple is registered at 90 Birthday! Website: Lizziedoodle in Laurens, Target and www.thepapernow.com Bed, Bath & Beyond. Verale Nicol is celebrating her 90th birthday! A celebration in her honor is being held by her children on E-mail: Sunday, October 8 from 2 -4 p.m. at [email protected] the Methodist Church in Laurens. No gifts, please just come and Publisher: celebrate. If you would like to send Rodney Johnson her a card, they will reach her at: 511 East Olive Street, Laurens, IA 50554. Editor: Amanda Tendal Rights to Use Content: The Paper, its content, archived materials, and our websites, are provided solely for your personal, non-commercial use.