GOOD THINGS ARE COMING AND IT IS GOING TO BE ONE ... SOUTHERN AND ESPECIALLY EASTERN IOWA, WHERE THERE HASN’T BEEN AS MUCH SNOW MELTING RECENTLY, WHERE THE GROUND IS ALREADY DRIED OUT.

A weekly salute to good things happening in our communities A posthumous ... as they should — with his being the “father of Iowa’s community colleges,” which turn 60 years old this year.