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Dr. Timothy M. Dettmer received Mason City Clinic’s 2018 MacGregor Award for Excellence. The award recognizes a Clinic "physician who, in the opinion of his colleagues, goes above and beyond in service to patients, colleagues, and the community." Dettmer, an otolaryngologist, was raised in Mason City and Spencer. He earned his medical degree from Iowa and completed his residency in Iowa City. Dettmer has been with Mason City Clinic since 2005; he and his wife have five children.

MTA officials have blamed such factors as the difficulty of carving through the bedrock, the need to work around an active transportation system, and the challenge of carting away 75,000 truckloads of rock, mud and other refuse. Much of it was used as fill in parks and other projects.

We saw in the New Year in Waltersburg, South Carolina, dining at the Cracker Barrel just down from our Holiday/Hampton. I ordered chicken livers, and I think he had a steak with fried okra. We skipped dessert.

Overall, the Acer Predator Helios 500 is a solid laptop that really takes on different personalities depending on which configuration you buy.

Arconic Inc. engineers, manufactures, and sells lightweight metals of aluminum, titanium, and nickel worldwide. It operates through three segments: Engineered Products and Solutions, Global Rolled Products, and Transportation and Construction Solutions. The Engineered Products and Solutions produces and sells fastening systems and seamless rolled rings; investment castings, including airfoils and forged jet engine components; and extruded, machined, and formed aircraft parts, as well as various forged, extruded, and machined metal products. This segment serves commercial and defense aerospace, commercial transportation, and power generation end markets. The Global Rolled Products segment produces and sells aluminum sheets and plates; and aseptic foils. This segment serves commercial and defense aerospace, commercial transportation, and power generation end markets. The Transportation and Construction Solutions segment produces and sells integrated aluminum structural systems, architectural extrusions, and forged aluminum commercial vehicle wheels, as well as aluminum products for the industrial products end market. This segment serves nonresidential building and construction, and commercial transportation end markets. The company sells its products directly to customers and through distributors. Arconic Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

For a few miles our route takes us through West Virginia. We pass a sign to Harpers Ferry. “Have you ever been there?” he asks, probably knowing the answer since I’ve told him I’ve seen none of the Civil War sites. Without any discussion he drives off the Interstate, and we make our way to this iconic place that means nothing more to me than a name: John Brown.

Pig iron, so-called because it was once formed in moulds that produced a branched ingot resembling a sow with piglets, still contains many of the impurities from the ore and the coal used to fuel the smelting, much of them in the form of silicon or sulphur compounds. It is extremely brittle, and not of much use as a material. When it is melted once more under more controlled circumstances its impurity content can be reduced, and you will find the result as cast iron. Cast iron though is still brittle, if you hit it hard enough with a hammer it will shatter. Some means of completely removing those impurities is required, and that is the purpose of manufacturing wrought iron or steel. Wrought iron has those impurities oxidised at the surface of a semi-molten mass by continually reworking it with a hammer or through rollers, while steel achieves a similar aim by blasting compressed air through a crucible of molten pig iron.

Each evening after shooting, I’d find myself meticulously and repeatedly ramrodding chemical-coated patches down my barrel, scrubbing and removing the corrosive residue until my white patches emerged without a sign of remaining powder. A season without cleaning would eventuate in a locked up, inoperable gun. If you need everything quick, clean, and easy, muzzleloading is probably not for you.

Vietnow Piedmont Chapter: 6-7 p.m. last Monday, Goodwill Workforce Center, 719 W. Center St., Lexington. Open to men and women. Dennis L. Cave, 336-410-2511 or cavedl2511@gmail.com.

FLY-IN: Members of the Mortgage Bankers Association will meet with lawmakers this week as part of the group’s National Advocacy Conference Tuesday and Wednesday. Speakers at the conference include Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Reps. Denny Heck (D-Wash.) and French Hill (R-Ark.), and HUD Deputy Secretary Pam Patenaude.

China’s first quarter growth for 2019 is widely believed to be a test to Beijing’s policymakers because substantial damages from current US tariffs will be felt, with some predicting it will drop below the psychologically important threshold of 6 per cent in the first half of the year.

Mercy Breast Center of North Iowa was recognized for the fourth consecutive year as a Certified Quality Breast Center of Excellence in the National Quality Measures for Breast Centers Program. The recertification process recognizes "commitment to provide quality breast health care to patients in its community" in quality and cost-control measures.