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    Ye Olde Homecoming

    Among those attending the 50-year class reunion in Glenwood this weekend will be a tall, slender woman with grey hair and kind eyes. She doesn’t live in Glenwood; in fact, she doesn’t even live in the United States.

    Judy (Nightingale) Bain attended Glenwood High School for one year. She was the school’s first female exchange student, arriving in Glenwood in August 1962 from her hometown of Truro, England.

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    Glenwood Pet Lodge

    By Daisy Hutzell-Rodman

    People walking in the door of the Glenwood Pet Lodge are often greeted by a tan and white Jack Russell terrier named Gracie.  Gracie, the unofficial operations manager, sniffs at patron’s hands and wags her tail back and forth.

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    Free Movie Night At Amphitheater

    The Davies Amphitheater, Frontline Church and LTD-Leadership Through Drama, Inc., are teaming up to present “Family Movie Night at the Davies Amphitheater” Saturday, July 20.

    The free evening of entertainment will include a showing of the LTD film “The Elpis Orb” and movie-themed activities and games beginning at 7:45 p.m. on the lawn east of the amphitheater.
     
    Dan Hardcastle of the Frontline church said he’s hopeful the movie night will be the first of many in Glenwood.

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    Artist In Residence

    MALVERN - Artist Zack Jones has worked in various mediums.

    Digital animation, watercolor, film, pen and ink, oil on canvas.

    Nowhere on that list does “139-year-old former Presbyterian church” appear.

    But that is exactly the “medium” Jones is working in with his Art Church Project.
     
    Jones bought the former Presbyterian church just off Main Street in Malvern on the brick-lined street corner of Prospect and East Fourth Streets from the Malvern Historical Society last May.

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    Relay For Life Ambassadors

    Exercise has long been known to reduce a person’s risk for getting cancer, and walking is often one of the easiest ways to exercise.

    Hundreds, potentially more than a thousand, people will walk during the 2013 Mills County Relay for Life. The event runs from 4 p.m. June 1 to 8 a.m. June 2 at Ram Memorial Field in Glenwood. Leading the event will be four Relay for Life ambassadors - Bob Blasi of Glenwood, Mary May of rural Silver City, Mary Renze of Glenwood and Roger Wyant of Malvern.

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    Mother, Teacher, Blogger

    A Glenwood preschool teacher and single mother of two children is making a name for herself as a blogger for a San Francisco-based website geared toward issues of interest to women.

    “The website is Lipstick and Politics and I’m not the lipstick” Bobbi Jo Rohrberg said during a recent interview.

    “I’m not into fashion and entertainment. The politics is what I like most, but I’m also a single mom who’s been through divorce so I also like to write things for co-parenting and general parenting.”

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    Eat Healthy, Mills County

    BY ALLIE FORD
    SPECIAL TO THE OPINION-TRIBUNE
    Mills County businesses and community members are working together, making exciting changes to create healthier lifestyles. One way that this is occurring is through support and changes from local restaurants.

    Live Healthy Iowa helps bring more awareness to what Iowans are eating and the importance of being physically active.

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    MEMPHIS, The Musical

    OMAHA - Memphis, the musical the 2010 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, will play at Omaha’s Orpheum Theater Tuesday, Jan. 15 through Sunday, Jan.  20, as part of the Omaha Performing Arts Broadway series.

    Tickets for Memphis start at $25 and are available online at TicketOmaha.com; by phone at 402.345.0606  or at the Ticket Omaha office in the Holland Performing Arts Center.

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    90 Years Of Service

    In all reality, little has changed for the Glenwood Rotary Club over the past 90 years.

        Members still meet on Thursday nights for dinner and an evening of fellowship, the club has 22 members (the same number it had in 1922) and most importantly, the club is continuing its mission of giving back to the Glenwood Community.

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    The Pedal Pull Guy

        Attendees at Keg Creek Days in Glenwood may be familiar with watching children pedal Ken Myers’ small tractors down a stretch of sidewalk.
     

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    Mission Work In Sudan

    Glenwood Pastor Evan Welcher has a vision.

    “I want people to be obedient to Christ,” the senior pastor at Glenwood’s First Christian Church said.

      Welcher and his wife, Danielle, are passionate about being disciples of Christ. In June, the couple took a mission trip to Emmanuel Christian Training Centre and Academy in Goli, South Sudan.

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    Laura's Blessings

    Laura Millar, once she gets going, can’t sit still very long. She snaps her fingers, bounces slightly in her seat and travels between the vending machine containing small toys and the dining table. She loves sports.
         “In the summer I like to swim,” said the 9-year-old with curly red hair and a big smile. “Sometimes in winter I play hallway soccer.”

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    FACEBOOK Prize Winners

    Congratulations to the following winners in The Opinion-Tribune's "Like us on Facebook" prize give-away for the month of April:

    $50 gasoline gift card - Sheryl L. Speegle-Morris.

    6-month online subscription to The Opinion-Tribune - Maggi Wyatt and Amellia Hansen.

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    WIGS - An Investment Club For Women

    Several ladies, nearly all retired, sat in the non-fiction section of the Glenwood Public library recently for their monthly meeting. Minutes from the last meeting were read, a treasurer’s report was read and a presentation was given.  From the outside, it seemed like the monthly meeting of any social club in any small town across America.  Listening in, however, one notices their treasurer’s report does not include funds coming from a bake sale.

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    A Passion For Giving

    Rachel Salerno wants to help people, no matter their age, vitality or nationality.

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    National Champions

    When you hear about a team winning a national
    championship, you assume some type of athletic competition was involved, right?

        Maybe football, basketball or baseball.
        Ever heard of a team winning a national championship for donating blood?
        That’s exactly what a

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    Mills Masquers Have Proud History

    Mills County residents looking for good entertainment don’t need to look far from home. The Mills Masquers community theater group has entertained southwest Iowa residents for 35 years.

      The theater troupe began in 1977, when resident Marge Smith wanted to put on a play for Mills County residents. That play, a melodrama, was called No Opry at the Opera House Tonight.

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    Fairy Tale Wedding

    Glenwood Community High School graduate Jeremiah Barns (class of 2000) and his fiancee, Becky Martin, walked into The Fountains Ballroom near Mineola to book a modest wedding in May 2011. They never dreamed that their modest wedding would turn into a $50,000 fairy tale.

        “We were going to try and keep it to $10,000,” Martin said. “Then we found out they were having a contest, and we asked ‘can we get in on that even though we have already booked?”

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    Glenwood 12-year old wins second...

        Glenwood tween Madison Morris, like many 12-year-olds, keeps very busy. She is a nearly straight-A student, plays clarinet in the Glenwood Middle School band, and plays volleyball and basketball for the school.  Morris, however, has one special activity that many of her fellow seventh-grade classmates do not. She has become the Iowa triple-crown champion in ATA Tae kwon do for the second year in a row.

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    Tractors Headed To Belgium

    Five antique tractors from Mills County have begun a month-long journey to their new home in western Europe.

        The tractors were among 25 sold during an auction last month at the Robert Leick property north of Glenwood. Four of the tractors sold to online bidder Marc Geerkens of Belgium belonged to Leick. The fifth was owned by Elmer Niemoller of Mineola.