by admin | Jun 28, 2003 | Recreation / Entertainment
What’s considered one of the nation’s top ten art festivals is underway today in central Iowa, with prices on items ranging from 25-dollars to 25-thousand dollars. The Des Moines Arts Festival got applications from 865 artists to take part this year and...
by admin | Jun 28, 2003 | Recreation / Entertainment
The famous “Field of Dreams Ghost Players” will open their 2003 season Sunday at the site where the movie was filmed near Dyersville. Since the corn isn’t waist-high yet, the players will gather in left field to set up their temporary diamond and...
by admin | Jun 28, 2003 | Human Interest, Recreation / Entertainment
Time is running out for you to nominate a friend or family member for their fifteen minutes of fame at the Iowa State Fair. Kate McKenna is a spokesperson for the Iowa Sate Fair Blue Ribbon Foundation which is looking for 10 people to serve as “Iowan of the...
by admin | Jun 28, 2003 | Crime & Courts
Manchester police have issued arrest warrants for four people from Chicago and Milwaukee in connection with a string of thefts at Midwestern WalMart stores. They’re looking for Roger Stone and Darlisa Cannon of Chicago, and Shimick Cannon and Shannon Sopko who...
by admin | Jun 28, 2003 | Recreation / Entertainment
Some martial arts students from northeast Iowa are headed to Knoxville, Tennessee, for next week’s National Tae Kwon Do championships. They’re from McDowell’s Midwest Academy of Tae Kwon Do in Edgewood where Bob McDowell is the chief instructor. He...