COLORADO -- Robert and Wilma Jean Nicolaisen will mark their 70th wedding anniversary on September 1. Their family is requesting a card shower in their honor to wish them Tillykke.    Cards will reach if them if sent to Nicolaisen %Dianne Cooper, 231 Westcott Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO 80906.
 

    HARLAN -- Rex Buckley of Harlan will celebrate his 70th birthday on September 9.  His family is planning a card shower in his honor. Cards will reach him if sent to 1612 16th Street, Harlan, IA 51537.    His family includes Troy and Helen Buckley, Danville, IN; Kevin and Beth Buckley, Ankeny; Trisha Buckley, Ankeny; and five grandchildren. His wife is the late Irene Buckley. They were married 45 years.

    HARLAN – For more than 10 years Rik Zortman has been running throughout Iowa, the nation and even internationally. “The Human Etch-a-Sketch” this summer hit a milestone running at least one “sketched” name in all 99 counties in Iowa.    Zortman was back in Harlan Friday, Aug.

    HARLAN – The Harlan Community Schools has been provided personal protective equipment (PPE) from the state, and will have the items available across the district to keep students and staff safe when they headed back to the classrooms this week.    Brian Gubbels, HCS Director of Finance, said the school district received the items Monday, Aug.

HARLAN -- Harlan Community Elementary Principal Jeff Moser welcomes back to school Jose Torres and Barbara Torres.  Students haven’t been in the classroom since mid-March.  Extraordinary efforts have been made in the HCS District to keep students and staff safe amid the COVID-19 pandemic.  Here, all are wearing masks as they enter the building.

    HARLAN – The City of Harlan will save approximately $200,000 in interest costs by refinancing three of its current bond issues, and coupling them with a proposal to bond for fire department needs including a new fire truck and fire breathing apparatus.    Bids were let last week and came in lower than expected, with Banker’s Bank of Madison, WI providing the low bid true interest rate of 0.8104 percent on the combined $3.85 million bond is

    PANAMA -- Richard “Dick” Keane of Panama works in the electronics field but he also thinks being a “full-time” grandpa would be a fun job. He and his wife, Kathy’s, first grandchild, Gabe, just celebrated his first birthday in July.    “I know that I am in the technological world but there is nothing like the drool on my arm from a one-year-old baby boy cutting three teeth at the same time.

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