News from 4-27-11 Ida County Courier

ARTHUR LIBRARY FUNDRAISER
The Arthur Library will sponsor “Pancakes for Our Patrons” on Sunday, May 1, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the Arthur Community Center. Pancakes, sausage, fruit and beverages will be served for a freewill donation. Theme baskets will be available for silent auction.

What gets better with age? Wine, cheese and
Zola Gunderson
Please help her celebrate her 95th birthday
on May 5 with a Card Shower
– Greetings can be sent to the –
Odebolt Nursing & Rehab Center
801 S. Des Moines St.
Odebolt, IA 51458
Aged to Perfection!
Thank you for helping her have a FABULOUS day

TO RECEIVE FEDERAL GRANT MONEY 
The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) has selected 23 counties, including Sac, Buena Vista and Woodbury Counties, to participate in a $10.5 million federal grant to reduce binge drinking and underage drinking, and the problems associated with both. In February 2011, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) approved Iowa’s plan for the Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF SIG), allowing IDPH to implement a county selection process. The counties were identified as “highest need” in regard to underage alcohol use, and youth and adult binge drinking.For more information on the Iowa Strategic Plan for the Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant, visit www. idph.state.ia.us/spfsig/. For more information about Iowa’s substance abuse programs, visit
http://www.idph.state.ia.us/bh/substance_abuse.asp

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PRAIRIE PEDLAR SPRING OPEN HOUSE
Saturday, April 30
9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
at the Prairie Pedlar

 We’re GROWING! Another NEW greenhouse is bursting with plants—check out all SIX greenhouses for all your plant needs: Proven Winner Premium Annuals, Savvy Succulents, Zonal & Ivy Geraniums, Hardy Perennials, Flowering Shrubs, Trees, Vines & more Don’t miss THREE sheds filled with gifts and garden pickings—along with iron and concrete merchandise sprinkled outdoors

1609 270th Street, Odebolt, Iowa 51458
712-668-4840
 www.prairiepedlar.com

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THANK YOU LETTERS FOR TORNADO CLEAN-UP

Webster’s Dictionary defines a friend as: a person who helps or supports something. Our definition is: people (some we didn’t even know) showing up within minutes of the tornado hitting our farm & wading through MUCK to ensure that cattle were in & fences were up. Staying until 2 a.m. to help Roger get the generator up & running. Finding out the next week that some of those people who were here had severe damage to their own farms & yet they came to our aid. Sunday a.m. – friendly faces arriving & taking charge. Knowing what had to be done & doing it! Food – Food & More food!!! Hugs – prayersphone calls! Looking out over our field full of helping hands – our young, very pregnant neighbor – not making any excuses pitched in next to her husband & 2 little children helping pick up the debris! Looking across the field & seeing the American flag that had been found in the field – flying on the back of a hayrack – reminding us of how grateful we are!! THANK YOU to all who helped in any way!!!!!
 - Roger & Ellen Buehler, Barry & Abby Duane & Donna Buehler

THANK YOU: After the tornado, there were many people who came to help with cleaning inside the house, boarding windows, pulling the pickup out of the rubble & bringing food & water. Thank you! Not long after Brian came out of the house, the Fire Department was here, checking to make sure everything was OK. Thank you! The next day, the number of people that showed up with equipment, chainsaws, rakes & a willingness to work was incredible. Thank you! As we looked at our place & all of the destruction, it was overwhelming. However, the number of people who came to help & brought food is almost more overwhelming, because of the great outpouring of love & support we’ve received. Thank you! We thank God for our family, friends, neighbors & church family, & we are very blessed to be a part of such a great community. To everyone who helped in any way, THANK YOU!
 - Brian & Jenny Buehler

THANK YOU: Where else but in small town Iowa can you have a major storm destroy a hog building after 9 p.m. & less than an hour later, 19 people show up (some you don’t even know) & are helping you move 2,400 hogs, working until 3 a.m. & then come back the next day to fi nish. What a great community we live in! Many thanks go out to Brad, Vance, Jim, Julie & Brian Lundell. Also to Brad’s hired man, Dakota Miller, along with his friends. Brian, Amy, Michael & Levi Streed. Les & John Fertig, Todd Steinkamp & son-in-law, Jason Hocker, Matt Stehr, Tate Wilken, Ben Scott & Logan Scott, Jenny Licata & Bria Vogt.
 - Mark, Brian & Bill Fertig