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Speaker: World Draws On Creativity

art education web site www.iowaalliance4artsed.org Art education isn't about nurturing future Rembrandts. It's about creativity and the key to competition in the global economy.

P O P Your Apple Pie

How much cute can you handle in a pie? We fell in love with the idea of mini apple pie pops after seeing versions of them on several blogs, including Bakerella.com and Luxirare.com. Everything tastes better when it's tiny and on a stick, right?

Owl City Music Turns Online Popularity Into Sales

MINNEAPOLIS - Adam Young had never seen the ocean with his own eyes, but that didn't stop him from writing and recording an album called "Ocean Eyes." The CD cover's marine and coastal imagery gives no hint that Young - who performs under the moniker Owl City - recorded the whole thing in the basement of his parents' house in Owatonna, a small Minnesota city about 60 miles south of Minneapolis.

Community Calendar

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Art and Music at Forefront at Divine Word

EPWORTH, Iowa - Divine Word College will host a day of art and music, Friday, Nov. 6. There will be an artist's reception, 5-7 p.m., featuring photographer Andrew Ortiz's "Black Bird Speaking," an exhibit featuring large-format digital prints blending allegorical compositions of birds.

Don't Miss These

Progressive Organ Recital to visit 3 Dubuque sites The Dubuque chapter of the American Guild of Organists will host a Progressive Organ Recital, Sunday, Nov. 1.

Think Popcorn for Trick-or-Treaters

Halloween is days away and you will need mounds of goodies to hand out to all the goblins who come knocking on your door. If you're looking for better alternatives to candy that will feel like a treat to the kids, popcorn is perfect.

Letters to the Editor

The staggering inefficiency, ineffectiveness, and cost of America's health care system is the biggest domestic threat to our country. Left unreformed, the cost of health care will rise from consuming 16 percent of the nation's economic output in 2007 to 25 percent in 2025, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Put another way, by 2025, Americans will be working through the end of April before they have paid off the country's health care bill, with no end in sight.

Tri-State People

Laura Roussell, external affairs manager for Black Hills Energy, has been named the recipient of the company's 2009 Iowa Leader of the Year Award. The annual award recognizes an Iowa natural gas employee that has demonstrated leadership in projects that are above and beyond the normal scope of the employee's responsibilities.

Punk Rock, Free Music and News Headlines

'Our Daily Dread' A quick swing by www.myspace.com/theinfidelstc (the link to the album is on the right under "About The Infidels") gives one a good impression of the kind of musical experience to be expected from "Our Daily Dread." It's all about hard, driving punk rock 'n' roll. "The best way I can describe it is we're a punk band trying really hard to play rock music," said Eager. "Our Daily Dread" is a concept album kind of like Green Day's two most recent albums ("American Idiot" and "21...

Detours

(NEW) Iowa 13, from Strawberry Point to Elkader, is restricted to one lane for repair work and concrete patching. Flaggers and pilot cars will assist traffic. Anticipated reopening: Nov. 11. Locust Street, from Ninth to 14th streets and from 14th to 17 streets, is closed to all traffic for asphalt resurfacing. Anticipated reopening: Nov. 6.

What Recovery? Many Still Gloomy

CHICAGO - The housing market and stocks might be looking up, but Americans just can't shake their job worries. In a sign that talk of an economic recovery has yet to soothe a recession-battered nation, consumer confidence fell in October and came in well below what analysts were expecting.

Sentencings

Recently, in Dubuque County Court: * Lisa M. Schmitt; 27; domestic abuse causing injury, assault and two counts of violating a protective order; July 8, 14 and 28, 2009: 182 days in jail with 180 suspended, probation, 65 days in jail and batterer program.

Iowa Touchplay Replay? Bad Idea

where we stand If these near-slot machines were so scurrilous three years ago, why would we bring them back? "I don't believe the people of Iowa want gambling on every street corner."

Births

Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 Rathje - Rich and Marcia Rathje, Sabula, Iowa, boy at Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque.

Man Pleads Down in Robbery Case

Police seek Adult Warehouse robbery suspect Police continue to search for a suspect in a weekend robbery at the Adult Warehouse. Around 7 p.m. Friday, a man walked into the store and demanded money from the clerk. The clerk, Farin Smithee, 21, of Dubuque, was not injured in the robbery. Smithee told police that the man had an object concealed in his hand and sleeve, which led her to believe he carried a weapon, but she couldn't provide further description. The man left the scene with an undis...

Council Rivals Make Their Cases

Over four days, the TH is presenting the answers to questions posed by the TH to the four candidates for open seats on the Dubuque City Council. The candidates are, in the 1st Ward, incumbent Kevin Lynch and challenger Bill Hammel; and for an at-large seat, incumbent Ric Jones and challenger Marcos Rubinstein.

Lucille L. Frederick

Lucille L. Frederick, 94, of Dubuque, died Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, at Stonehill Care Center. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 30, at Egelhof Siegert & Casper Westview Funeral Home and Cremation Service, 2659 Kennedy Road, where friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29. Friends also call after 10 a.m. Friday at the funeral home, where arrangements are pending.

Cash-Strapped Farmers Killing Cows

DES MOINES - After burning through $1 million in savings and seeing no end to their losses, dairy farmers Jake and Lori Slegers figured they didn't have much choice - they had to kill the cows. So one day last summer, their sons tagged all 1,571 cows, loaded them onto trailers at their farm south of Fresno, Calif., and watched them rumble away to a slaughterhouse.

Man Takes $470,000 in Pay From Company He Never Worked For

SOMERVILLE, N.J. - An Illinois man has admitted banking more than $470,000 in paychecks from a New Jersey company he never worked for. Thirty-five-year-old Anthony Armatys, of Palatine, Ill., pleaded guilty Monday in New Jersey Superior Court to one count of theft as part of a plea bargain.