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  • Thankful for Nanny

    By Sarah Duggan on November 16, 2017

    A few weeks ago Murphy went through a stage where she didn’t want to leave daycare and Nanny who cares for her and her sister when I arrived to pick her up after work. Typically I can redirect her...

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  • Something to Squeal About

    By Becky Fitzgerald on November 2, 2017

    HOGtoberfest boosts Good Samaritan Fund The numbers are in! Well, most of them anyway. The fourth annual HOGtoberfest, a FOOD, FRIENDS and FUNdraising event to benefit the Good Samaritan Fund,...

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  • Pucker Up! Five candidates vying to kiss a hog on Oct. 26

    By Becky Fitzgerald on October 6, 2017

    Adept at selling acreage and houses, five members of the local real estate community are selling the home-for-many mission of Meadowlark as contestants in a HOG & Kisses Contest. The candidates...

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  • 2017 Auction: Necklace top-seller at 3rd annual event

    By Becky Fitzgerald on September 28, 2017

    Two jewelry cases filled with gold, silver, rhinestones and turquoise were flowers to several bidding bees at Meadowlark Foundation’s 3rd annual auction of furniture and other household goods. The...

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  • Verna Belle's Renovation progress

    By Becky Fitzgerald on September 21, 2017

    The renovation progress in Verna Belle’s continues to move forward and remain on schedule. For those who are curious about the work that has been completed so far, here’s a peek behind the plastic!

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  • Autumn or Fall, its all a delight!

    By Sarah Duggan on September 21, 2017

    Summer as we know it is over (the first day of Fall technically isn’t until Sept. 22), and school has started again. This change ignites an almost daily question at my house, “Is it Halloween today...

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  • Oink! Let's go HOG wild!

    By Becky Fitzgerald on September 21, 2017

    Friends of Meadowlark have a fun and tasty opportunity to support the Meadowlark Foundation’s Good Samaritan Fund when the doors to Cox Bros. BBQ open at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26. Brothers Bud...

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  • Outdoor Encounters, 9/7

    By Nathan Bolls on September 8, 2017

    To quote Eli Sprenkle, fisheries biologist at Tuttle Creek State Park, “algae and blue-green algae are everywhere.”  Including our Bayer Pond.  Some would say the same for ticks and mosquitoes.  Blue...

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  • Steady As You Go: Fall Prevention Seminar planned for Sept. 22

    By Becky Fitzgerald on September 8, 2017

    Leaves are supposed to fall. People aren’t! Falling is NOT a normal part of aging.    In conjunction with the National Council on Aging’s 10th annual Falls Prevention Awareness Day, fittingly set...

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  • I winned!

    By Sarah Duggan on August 31, 2017

    When I told Murphy she was signed up for a race she beamed with excitement, shot a fist in the air and said, “I’m going to get a race shirt! And a medal! And a chocolate milk!” We dream big at the...

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