Linn County

On 02-18-2018 at approximately 1553 hrs., I responded to Pershing Memorial Hospital in reference 2 juveniles in the emergency room due to dog bites. I made contact with a juvenile named Kasey Perry, w/f DOB 07/26/2008, and her mother Tena Batye, w/f DOB 03/19/1968. Kasey advised she was delivering girl scout cookies to Judy Brown with her 3 year old nephew Garret Lucky, w/m DOB 07/01/2014. Kasey advised Judy lives on Harrison Street. Kasey advised when they got near the house a large black in…

Clayton Holbert I selected Clayton Holbert for my slave narrative. Holbert was born and raised in Linn County, Tennessee. His master was Pleasant “Ples” Holbert. Holbert says Ples had a large plantation with around one hundred slaves. Holbert was eighty six years old at the time of the interview by Leta Gray. Holbert mainly talks about everyday life. He says that the plantation was self sufficient. The slaves on the farm butchered their own meat, wove their own clothes, and made their own maple…

Rod Sullivan, the Chair of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, has a significant amount of experience and knowledge surrounding the increase of a minimum wage – as Johnson County is in the process of increasing theirs to $10.10/hour in incremental stages. Sullivan first points out the type of people who the minimum wage would help the most – women and African…

Dorothy, however, did not seem to mind doing the extra work created when her brother left for. After all, Harlan, her future husband, was safe at home in Iowa despite her father’s disapproval. Even with her brother gone, the Sprout family farm was able to remain productive. Even when Dorothy got a job a teacher in Emmetsburg, she still returned home occasionally to help out on the family farm. She saw working on the family farm as more of a nuisance than a patriotic undertaking like women in…

campaigns such as the fight against Pancho Villa and the Battle of San Juan Hill. World War I is where General Pershing really became remembered in American History. John Joseph Pershing was born on September 13, 1860 in a little town near Laclede, Linn County, Missouri (“John J”1). He was the first child for his father John Pershing and his mother Ann Pershing (“John J.”1). He was the oldest out of eight siblings, but only five siblings lived to adulthood (“John J.”1). John’s siblings that…

College Search Israel Perez Biola University was founded in 1908, in the heart of South California. It is located near Orange and Los Angeles counties, twenty five miles from the beach. Disneyland and Knott’s berry farm are closer. Biola is ranked as one of the safest communities in the region. More than six thousand three hundred students enroll at the La Mirada campus. Offer over 40 majors and 80 concentrations. The teacher to student ratio is 16:1, 22% of students are from out of…

The facts are clear and concise, often using real world scenarios to make sense of the information. The author, Curt Zingula, is a local farmer for Linn county, and is highly qualified to speak on the subject of farming due to his experience as a farmer. This source would be considered more scholarly, and is very helpful to the topic of factory farms because it takes a different stance than a lot of other…

a slender, drooping bladed, perennial bunch grass that is native to Europe and North Africa. It was first introduced to Oregon in the 1930’s and by some estimates, it has spread over 10,000 acres in Oregon—specifically in Western Oregon: Linn and Benton counties. By the 1990’s False Brome was established as an invasive species in Oregon; today, False Brome can be found in Northern California and the San Francisco Bay area. (1) Figure 1: False Brome (2) False Brome is a dominating invasive…