Columbus Junction News

Dwight Hubert Clark, 86, of Iowa City, died Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in the VA Hospital in Iowa City.

Patsy Ruth Courtney, 82, of Columbus Junction, died Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in the Colonial Manor in Columbus Junction.

Ainsworth American Legion Post 351 will sponsor a two-part program at Ainsworth Monday.

Myrlene Stephens and Forrest Eubanks were married in Columbus Junction on May 22, 1948.

The school had long been accustomed to educating the children of the Mexicans, Hondurans, and Salvadorans who came to work at the sprawling Tyson Foods pork processing plant that sits outside this town of 2,000. But then, principal Shane Rosenberg recalled, Tyson informed school leaders that a new group of workers was coming - the Chin, a largely ... (more)

Evelyn Almeda Gingerich, 72, of rural Columbus Junction, died Sunday, May 5, 2013, at her home in Gladwin.

The first Chin Burmese student arrived at Wilma Sime Roundy Elementary School three years ago, a smiling preschooler whose father often checked on his progress.

Meatpacking used to be a middle-class job for Americans, illustrated in the 1990 Academy-Award-winning documentary American Dream , which showed Minnesotans fighting to maintain their wages and benefits at Hormel which had cut them despite healthy profits.

The first Chin Burmese student arrived at Wilma Sime Roundy Elementary School three years ago, a smiling preschooler whose father often checked on his progress.

Ngun Za Bik stands at the front counter of his Grace Chin Store that once housed a pizza restaurant, in Columbus Junction, Iowa, on Wednesday, April 17, 2013.

"Come anytime" and "Come as you are," for a celebration of fun for the 65th wedding anniversary of Warren and Connie Lewis.

"Come anytime" and "Come as you are," for a celebration of fun for the 65th wedding anniversary of Warren and Connie Lewis.

The first Chin Burmese student arrived at Wilma Sime Roundy Elementary School three years ago, a smiling preschooler whose father often checked on his progress.

"Come anytime" and "Come as you are," for a celebration of fun for the 65th wedding anniversary of Warren and Connie Lewis.

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