It was cold and gray and softly raining when Lance Corporal Cody Wanken finally came home to Hampton Tuesday, April 8. Still colder, with a temperature in the upper 30s, nearly 20 degrees below average, and gray and rain blowing in sheets when he was laid to rest two days later.
It was the polar opposite of Cody’s personality, the irony of it not lost in the sorrow.
“Yeah,” Brian Sutter, as close to the Wanken family as one could be without carrying the name, said with a grin, “he’s laughing at us.” [more]
Alpharetta, Georgia — AGC Flat Glass North America (formerly AFG) today (April 16) announced that it is closing its coating and tempering facilities in Hampton, Iowa, as well as two other North American Plants.
There are 55 employees working for AGC in Hampton. [more]
