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Do stress pills remove the stress in your life? Promoters of “stress tablets” would like us to believe all we need to do to keep stress under control is pop their pills. If only it were that easy.
“Stress” is well-known, but not well understood. Its source may be psychological (nervous tension, rage, fear) or physical (extreme hot or cold, burns, infections). Regardless of the source, the body has a three-stage reaction to stress.

The members of the Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital are actively recruiting new and returning members to join them during the month of June and their annual membership drive.
The Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital is devoted to providing the hospital and its patients and visitors with many services. The Auxiliary also holds annual fundraisers, such as the April Pillow-Perk and the June bake sale, to help raise funds for purchasing equipment for the hospital.

The Iowa State Patrol responded to a one vehicle motorcycle accident on June 17, five miles west of New Albin on county road A26.
The accident report indicates Robert Sturch, 52, of Waterloo to have been operating a 1991 Harley Davidson motorcycle west bound on A26 when he failed to negotiate a sharp curve and entered the south ditch. Sturch and his passenger, Sandra Sturch, 52, also of Waterloo, were both ejected from the vehicle.

I heard a story last night about a couple dear to me spending the night on their trailer roof last week out in Village Creek.
Seems the water came through the valley and carried both their vehicles away as well. Whether they scraped, crashed or landed against each other or the shaking, bending trees remains unclear to me, but I can report that the cars both suffered complete, irrepairable damage.
The trailer, tightened up, didn't fill with water. So neither the baby pictures nor their collection of rare, old blues records sang themselves back down to Memphis.

Bobbie’s Greenhouse, located one quarter mile south of Rossville on Volney Road, opened in April of this year. Owner Bobbie Cunningham, who works full-time as a lab technician at Prairie du Chien Memorial Hospital, says “I have always liked plants. Gardening is my passion. I have never seen a flower I did not like.”
As a result, her husband, Steve, a retired schoolteacher and counselor, built her a greenhouse. “Whatever I want, he builds for me,” she said.

Sailing from Fiji to New Caledonia, we left a former English colony to visit a former French colony. Captain James Cook first discovered present day New Caledonia in 1774. The islands so reminded him of his native Scottish highlands that he named the islands New Caledonia. Caledonia was the name the Romans gave to Scotland.

On Sunday, April 2, the Invent Iowa State Convention was held at the Iowa Memorial Union on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City. Over 325 Iowa students exhibited the best student inventions from around the state.
An invention convention was held January 27 at East Elementary in Waukon. Students then advanced to the Keystone AEA Invention Convention in Elkader. Students from this area advancing from Elkader were Brittany Wood and Allison Martin with their refrigerator organizer invention and Nic Lloyd and Hans Walleser with their EZ Feed invention.

The Waukon Swim Club opened its 2000 season on a successful note, winning its first dual meet of the season at Sumner Tuesday, June 13. The Waukon team won 48 of the meet's 78 events, also claiming a number of multiple placewinnings in the meet to outscore Sumner by a 418-284 final result.
Waukon will next host Elkader/Strawberry Point Tuesday, June 20 before swimming at Decorah Thursday, June 22 and hosting Calmar Thursday, June 29.
Results of the Waukon Swim Club's efforts at the Sumner meet follow:
100 Yard Medley Relay

Waukon tumblers Vanessa Herman and Melissa Wicks have earned qualification for the United States Tumbling Association National Championships to be held at Kansas City, MO this upcoming weekend, June 23-25. Both earned qualification by placing in the top four at the USTA State Championships in Ames April 30, Herman placing third at the meet and Wicks claiming a fourth-place finish.

Just like Geppetto’s workshop in the delightful fairytale Pinocchio, Mayhew “Make” Eaton’s workshop is filled with machinery, wood of different shapes and sizes, and just started carvings waiting for his hands to brush off the dust and finish them off.