Despite a worldwide pandemic, a Washington native physician recently took the opportunity to travel outside the U.S. to provide medical services as part of a mission program.
Dr. Lindsey Van Duyn of Washington County Hospital and Clinics spent a week in Haiti last month to serve in a clinic in the town of Gramothe. Van Duyn has done previous mission work in Honduras and the Dominican Republic, so she had long been interested in going to Haiti. She says this clinic is open about five times a year, “We really didn’t know what to expect, so you are essentially a general practice provider and you have hundreds of patients that line up outside of the clinic. Everybody from a pregnant woman and this could be as young as 14 years of age, all the way up to an elderly patient and they could need anything.”
4/7/21
A Washington County man convicted of killing his wife ten years ago has died while serving his sentence.
The Iowa Department of Correction says James Dean Blum was pronounced dead due to natural causes at 7:58 a.m. on Tuesday at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He was originally an inmate at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Coralville. Blum was 81 years old at the time of his death.
In January of 2010 Blum called 9-1-1 saying he had “possibly killed his wife.”
Officers who went to Blum’s home on Highway 92 found 67-year-old Patricia Blum unresponsive. She was taken to Washington County Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
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Washington County businesses, organizations, and other community members gathered at five area restaurants Monday evening for the annual Washington Business Partnership Dinner.
This was the first year for the event to be held since the pandemic, and the organizers decided to offer three different opportunities for the public to watch the prerecorded half hour program. Washington Mayor Jaron Rosien noted during the watch party at JP’s 207 that while they anticipated possibly 200 total attendees out of the usual 400 that are hosted at the Riverside Casino & Golf Resort, around 300 people registered for this year’s event.
Main Street Washington gave its annual volunteer of the year award to Lyle Moen, and the Washington Economic Development Group presented the Harvey Holden Special Service Award to Brenneman Pork and Washington County Hospital and Clinics. The Washington Chamber of Commerce presented Citizen of the Year to Illa Earnest and Business of the Year to KCTC. They also p