Recent News - 2023

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  Tri-City Clothing a decades-long destination for defining duds

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Wednesday, January 11, 2023

  It's been 40-plus years since Harry and Renee Carson's business, which started out of the back of an automobile, opened up shop in a building on old Logan Avenue. It's been eight years since the Carsons had to re-start and relocate that business after a devastating fire a few weeks before Christmas.

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  Family awaits ID of missing Iowa WWII Navy aviator

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Monday, December 12, 2022

  Family members of Iowan Alden Pearl Anders are still waiting for him to come home - 77 years after he and his crewmates were shot down off Indonesia, in the Pacific theater of World War II.

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  The Sullivan Brothers: 80 years later, 'people do care, and people do remember'

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Thursday, November 10, 2022

  Maybe they were brash. Maybe they were foolhardy. Maybe they were just five more victims in a war with hundreds of millions of victims. But maybe, just maybe, George, Francis, Joseph, Madison and Albert Sullivan were heroes as well.

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  Grout's 'Voices of Iowa' project goes 'on the road' to hear of veterans sacrifice.

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Wednesday, October 12, 2022

  Gordon Mooney went to war at age 49. It was 50 years after one of his teachers at Sac High School, Roland Harklau, did the same. Harklau taught history. Both he and Mooney became part of it, a half century apart.

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  Waterloo vet, dad kept their promise during WWII

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Wednesday, September 7, 2022

  Elmore Herold had a "close shave" in World War II. His father Carl didn't shave at all - not until his boy got home.

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