In a United in Remembrance program Easter Sunday at Sullivan City Park, the community observed the one-year anniversary of the devastating tornado that claimed three lives and left a path
In a United in Remembrance program Easter Sunday at Sullivan City Park, the community observed the one-year anniversary of the devastating tornado that claimed three lives and left a path
Publisher’s note: Forty-four years ago, when Michael Gartner was editor of The Des Moines Register, he walked over to the desk of writer Bob Hullihan and said, “How about writing me a Christmas classic for the holidays?” Hullihan said, “Sure.” And he did. It ran in the Register and years later in th
By Shane Goodman
“You ever gambled money, Dad?”
That was a question I asked my father as a 12-year-old boy when we were driving down the road. He replied by asking me if I had a dollar bill and if I could show it to him. I peeled one of the three dollar bills I had out of my billfold and held it up. Dad swiped the dollar from my hand, rolled down his car window, and let that dollar bill fly down the highway.
“That’s gambling,” he told me.
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