Archive for June 2018
Recommended reads to start your week
Guest Opinion: The power of wisdom and vulnerability
By Susan Hatten | Account executive, Holmes Murphy
I recently listened to a podcast on wisdom, and what it means during each phase of our personal and professional life journeys. As I have come to learn, certain …
Peggy Whitson announces her retirement
KCCI: NASA’s record-breaking astronaut, Peggy Whitson, is retiring. The space agency announced her retirement recently. Whitson, who grew up in Beaconsfield, a small town in southern Iowa, has spent more time off the planet than …
Read MoreWoody named new Des Moines library director
The Des Moines Public Library system has named Susan Amend Woody as the new executive director. She has worked for the libraries for 14 years, most recently as director of community engagement. Woody is a …
Read MoreIowa Valley Habitat to construct 10th Women Build home
Corridor Business Journal: Iowa Valley Habitat for Humanity (IVHFH) will construct its 10th Women Build home this summer in honor of Katie Lammers. The group broke ground on the home, located at 924 Governor St. in …
Read MoreIn Case You Missed It – Lift IOWA: 6-25-18
Remember that nominations for this year’s Sages Over 70 honorees must be submitted by July 1, a mere week hence. Reward the local mentors, civic leaders and role models who have influenced you by …
Read MoreSPEAK UP: Diversity should be a top priority for Iowa’s next Supreme Court justice
Justice Bruce Zager’s retirement opens up a slot on the Iowa Supreme Court. The state judicial nominating commission will interview candidates in early July and then will send three names to Gov. Kim Reynolds for …
Read MoreEqual partnership between millennial parents really means more work for both
Today’s feminism stresses that true equality must come not only from women being equal in the workplace, but also from men contributing equally at home. Millennial parents are the first to try to take on …
Read MoreOn The Rise: 6-25-18
Neldrekka Whitaker (pictured)
Promoted to principal
Dr. Walter Cunningham School for Excellence
Waterloo
Andrea Buehler
Promoted to clinic supervisor
UnityPoint Clinic Family Medicine
West Waterloo
Lori Murphy-Stokes
Promoted to vice president of nursing
UnityPoint Health
Marshalltown …
NOTEBOOK: Iowan’s ’88 climate change warning called ‘remarkably prescient’
A soft-spoken scientist from Denison, Iowa, stood before a U.S. Senate committee on June 23, 1988, and said, “The greenhouse effect has been detected and is changing our climate now.”
As Saturday’s 30th anniversary of …