Community

TIFFIN– A Tiffin man has died of injuries sustained in a bicycle accident.
According to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, emergency services responded to the bike trail in the Tiffin City Park for a bicycle crash at 3:48 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8.
Steven Towne, 49, of Tiffin, was operating a Shred Surface electric mountain bike near the ball diamonds on the bike trail when he lost control and struck a bridge railing. Towne was not wearing a helmet and sustained fatal injuries; he died at the scene.

TIFFIN– Improvisation is a skill actors must learn, and comes in handy when fellow actors forget their lines. But what happens when a worldwide pandemic still has a firm grip, resulting in a host of restrictions and limitations; and your best-scripted plan for a fall play doesn’t fit?
You improvise.

TIFFIN– Amid the near-constant drumbeat of social distancing, and guidelines for safe trick-or-treating in the year of the COVID-19 virus, Infuse Church devised a way for the community to celebrate Halloween without the need to go door-to-door.
The church held a trick-or-treat parade Saturday, Oct. 31, (Halloween), which featured the Tiffin Fire Department and a few local businesses distributing candy along a parade route encircling the north side of Tiffin.
The church meets on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. at Tiffin Elementary School.

NORTH LIBERTY– Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of North Liberty cancelled its annual spring cleanup day with plans to offer an alternative in the fall. While we won’t be able to host the day as normally, we are offering residential refuse customers some alternatives to dispose of additional refuse in November.

SWISHER– A consistent theme ran through a recent community survey in Swisher: Keep Swisher Swisher.
Over 250 residents participated in the survey, up from 160 in 2012, according to Regenia D. Bailey, a former Iowa City City Council member and founder of Bailey Leadership Initiative, LLC. Bailey conducted a visioning session for the Swisher City Council on Monday, Oct. 19, at the Swisher Community Library, where the survey was dissected, and the first steps on a path to the future were taken.