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Seven Washington Students Performing at State Individual Speech at Winfield-Mt Union

(L-R) Keegan Colby, Hannah Rees, Molly Klinzman, and Jenna Messer. A year after COVID-19 closed Iowa schools and cancelled the state individual speech contest, seven Washington High School students will be competing at the state contest at Winfield-Mt. Union High School tomorrow. Quinn Wubbena, Hannah Rees, Mathew Osborn, Jenna Messer, Molly Klinzman, Keegan Colby, and Brynn Beenblossom all advanced from the district contest that was also held at Winfield-Mt. Union on February 27th to perform for the chance to receive All-State nominations, though there will be no festival for the second year in a row. Spectators are allowed to watch the contest in person, and they must wear face masks, as well as the students performing. Messer says they chose the option of wearing face shields as it allows them to better emote, and she says this is a step up from the large group contests that were held virtually this year, “We didn’t have a state competition last year because of COVID and s

PAWS & More Holding Livestream Fundraiser Today

PAWS & More Animal Shelter is being featured by a nationally-known social media personality today to raise funds for ongoing expenses. Kris Rotonda of Jordan’s Way is hosting a Facebook livestream from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. from PAWS & More, where he’ll be enlisting the help of local officials and community leaders for challenges and surprises to encourage his roughly 70,000 followers to donate online to the shelter. Rotonda is on a 50-state tour to help fundraise and increase adoptions for animal shelters, and he’s held recent campaigns in Des Moines and Fort Madison. PAWS & More Director Amber Talbot shares why they’ve set their goal for $15,000, “I think our biggest needs currently are going to be kind of just our ongoing medical care that we provide to the animals. All of our veterinary services are often unpredictable, we don’t know what those expenses are going to be. We just transferred in a dog yesterday who happens to be heartworm positive, and so those are unforeseen

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