Dana News

The P.E.O. Society ladies were in a dither. Here it was September 1918, and they hadn't done anything for the Appanoose County boys of Company D. The ladies had sent books to soldiers, saved rags for the base hospital at Camp Dodge, and bought War Saving Stamps, but they needed to reach out to those boys who had been fighting in France since August ...

Chapter D, P. E. O., the organization spearheading the refurbishment of the Arch of Remembrance at Oakland Cemetery, would like to find the descendants of the 55 "Appanoose County Boys" who gave their lives and who are listed on the bronze plaques attached to the Arch.

Coming soon to a gym near you: a local staging of the Disney musical "Beauty and the Beast." By soon, I mean this weekend when the Notre Dame High School Music Department stages three performances of the classic tale in the elementary school gym, 700 S. Roosevelt Ave., Burlington.

Easter Seals Camp Sunnyside is looking for more than 30 volunteers for the Crop for Camp Sunnyside from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Feb.

With Ottumwa Manor closed, Good Samaritan is trying to bring in a solution. Dana Holland, executive director of the Good Samaritan Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, asked Wapello County supervisors for their ...