A delicious dive into Franklin County’s cultural makeup returns later this month.
La Luz Centro Cultural on Tuesday, Feb. 25 will bring back Cultural Cooking Classes.
Each month, La Luz will invite an area resident to instruct “students” on how to make a dish from her respective country. The first class will be enchiladas, instructed by La Luz staffers Maria Guadiana and Lily Velasco.
Members of Mid-America Publishing got the chance to honor longtime publisher Jack Zimmerman of the Sheffield Press during a reception last Wednesday at the Hampton Chronicle.
Zimmerman was the recipient of a special plaque presented recently by the Iowa Newspaper Association in recognition of his 64 years in the profession.
“ I bug my teacher!” Is the theme for nearly 200 middle school students, as part of the 10th annual Kiwanis “BUGs” program. Fifth graders earned certificates and bugs buttons a recent assembly at hampton-dumont middle school.
BUGs is an acronym for "Bringing Up Grades"...an academic achievement program developed by Kiwanis international and implemented by local Kiwanis clubs at schools across the country. BUGs is designed to recognize students for achieving success from one grading period to the next.
History and camaraderie collide at one of Hampton’s newest clubs.
The Hampton Men’s Book Club held its first meeting last Tuesday at the Hampton Public Library. Founder Linzey Collins said he had the idea to start the club because of the lack of a group targeted towards men in the area. By starting a book club, he said men now have a place to gather and discuss classic literature and historically geared works.
Parents attending the Hampton-Dumont-CAL basketball game Friday learned that there’s more than meets the eye.
H-D-CAL and Prairie Ridge Integrated Behavioral Healthcare on Friday, during the basketball games, hosted “Hidden in Plain Sight.” The program was a simulated teenage bedroom complete with items that resemble one thing, but may have uses harmful or illegal towards children.
Permitted for parental viewing only, the simulation was meant to show parents to look closer at some of the items in their children’s room, as illicit items are not always immediately visible.
Hundreds of newspaper workers and related industry professionals descended on Des Moines last week for the annual Iowa Newspaper Association convention, but few traveled as far as Piotr Marek.
Marek is the CEO of CMS4Media, a developing web company specializing in helping news organizations improve their online presence.
Previously a journalist himself in his homeland of Poland, Marek became frustrated with the options available for building a website tailored for delivering news and selling advertisements.
Area students pursuing a career in a technical field will receive a unique recognition later this month.
On Thursday, Feb. 20, North Iowa Area Community College (NIACC) will host a National Career and Technical Education Letter of Intent Signing Day at the Muse Norris Conference Center in Mason City beginning at 10 a.m.
The Hampton Chronicle claimed more than a dozen awards at the 2020 Iowa Newspaper Association Awards Banquet last Friday.
Each year, the INA hosts the Iowa Better Newspaper Contests ceremony to celebrate journalistic accomplishments from the previous year in connection with the annual Convention and Trade Show.
This year’s contest saw 3,335 entries across five classes based on circulation numbers. The Hampton Chronicle competes in Weekly Class II, for newspapers with circulations between 961 to 1,550.
Lunchtime at CAL feels less like school and more like a restaurant thanks to some new furniture.
Earlier this year, high top, circular and four seat square tables took the place of the traditional school lunch tables in the CAL cafeteria. CAL Principal Abby Meyer said the new furniture gives the lunchroom a more casual, friendly atmosphere but also cuts down on noise because of the proximity of the students to one another with the new seats.
Russell Wood recently received an opportunity to further his involvement with people in the area who live with disabilities.
Wood, the Hampton mayor, was named the CEO of Central Iowa Community Services, an 11 county mental health and disabilities service region. Wood currently serves as planning officer with CICS and has been with the regional organization since its inception in 2013.
CICS provides funding, coordination and development of services for people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities, brain injuries and mental illness.
