Relationships

Driving down Lovers' Lane, one town at a time (02/12/10)
Love is just down the lane, down Lovers' Lane that is. This term to describe a popular destination for secret meetings with a sweetheart might bring to mind a black and white movie with a grove of trees at the end of a lane where a young couple would sit enjoying the twinkling stars...

Keepng the glass half-full: Akron holds benefit for young father (01/14/10)
An avid fisherman and hunter. A loving father. An amazing foosball player and friend. Those are just a few ways in which friends and relatives describe 27-year-old Bobby Walrod of Akron. From those descriptions, nobody would know that Bobby has a muscle-deteriorating disease called Friedreich's Ataxia...

Facebook safety: Keep predators out and friends in (01/07/10)
If you would have said "I'm going to go check my Facebook" 10 years ago, someone would assume you had a collection of mug shots you needed to thumb through. Fast forward a decade and seemingly everyone is on Facebook, the world's fastest growing social networking website, currently serving more than 350 million people...

Rewind 2009: The good, the bad and the blizzard (12/30/09)
Editor's note: This is the first of two stories recapping 2009's top stories in the Daily Sentinel. Mother Nature put a wet (or white) blanket on Plymouth County's Christmastime plans, nailing northwest Iowa with more than a foot of snow and winds that lowered visibility and drifted roads shut. ...

When life was simple: For Weber, Christmas was always about family (12/23/09)
Editor's Note: This story is the fourth in a weekly series looking back at life decades ago and remembering a time when people's lifestyle was very different than today. In today's world, Christmas has become largely about consumerism. Just turn on your television and count the holiday commercials trying to sell you something that you "absolutely, without a doubt, need" to put under your tree. ...

Supervisors leave veterans' office alone (11/04/09)
Veteran affairs will remain in the Plymouth County Courthouse. The Plymouth County Supervisors determined that Tuesday as they continued to study the layout of a proposed courthouse annex building. Supervisor Craig Anderson wanted to know if his fellow board members were done talking about whether to leave the veteran affairs office in the courthouse...

Local ELCA pastor present at vote on sexuality (09/03/09)

Philo writes about experience with critically ill child to help others (06/29/09)
When Jolene and Hiram Philo's son Allen was born 30 years ago, his family started a roller-coaster ride of surgeries and hospitalizations. It also put his parents into a void where they searched for help and information while trying to be strong for their son...

British TV seeking farm family to teach Brit teens values (06/09/09)
Given two unruly British teens and 10 days, could you transform their lives? That's the question a British TV show is asking Iowa farm families. Makers of TV show "World's Strictest Parents" are seeking an Iowa family who lives on a farm to host two British 17 year olds for 10 days for the filming of an episode...

Sisters' lives come full circle with new digs (05/12/09)
Imagine living with your sister again after many years apart. Three sets of sisters in their 70s, 80s and 90s know what that's like since taking up residence at Prime Living Apartments, in Le Mars. Laura Jarmusz, 96, moved from California earlier this year to be with her sister, Lorena Becker, 93, who already had an apartment at Prime Living...

First same-sex couples marry in Le Mars (04/28/09)
Two same-sex couples from Sioux City were the first to tie the knot at the Plymouth County Courthouse Monday, when a new law allowing gays and lesbians to marry went into effect. People applying for marriage licenses are required to wait three business days to marry unless the judge marrying them chooses to wave that requirement, which is allowed under Iowa law...

Iowa law now effective for same-sex couples to marry (04/27/09)
The Plymouth County recorder and others across the state can today begin accepting applications for gay and lesbian people wanting to marry. The official order allowing same-sex couples to marry was handed down by the Iowa Judicial Branch today (Monday), reflecting a ruling by the Iowa Supreme Court...

Siblings look to "go green" at the Plymouth County Fair (02/18/09)
Choosing to forgo a traditional sibling rivalry, Sarah and Brian Kehm have decided to team up instead. And their parents are not the only beneficiaries of their partnership. All of Plymouth County stands to gain from the collaboration, as Sarah, a senior at Le Mars Community Schools (LCS) and Brian, a LCS junior, are using a 4-H project to help make the Plymouth County Fair a greener place...

Museum's 'Milestone Memories' to honor couples (02/10/09)
"Milestone Memories," a program to honor couples who have been married 50 years or longer, will mark Valentine's Day weekend at the Plymouth County Historical Museum in Le Mars. Several Plymouth County couples who have been married for at least 50 years will participate in the wedding program at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 15, in the museum's Music Room, on the main floor...

Bikers deliver toys for Head Start tots (12/09/08)
Christmas came early to Le Mars Head Start. Members of the Independent Riders for Children and Charities (IRCC), a motorcycle group, delivered toys and money they collected during their 17th Annual "toy run" to Head Start staff Saturday. After opening the bags and boxes of toys -- everything from Hot Wheels to Barbies -- both bikers and staff delightedly sorted them into piles: those for boys and those for girls...

Daycare providers face uncertain future in volatile economy (11/21/08)
Is an uneasy economy affecting local child care providers? Area licensed daycare center directors and state registered in-home caregivers have a mixed reaction to that phenomenon. Deb Kroksh, Akron Children's Center director, said she sees families moving away because of lost jobs or parents opting to stay home with children rather than utilize daycare centers...

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