Archive for January 2019
In Case You Missed It – Lift IOWA: 1-21-19
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Kim Reynolds made history in November as Iowa’s first elected female governor. And as a new legislative session began Jan. 14, she has a cadre of female staffers at her side. Des Moines Register
Iowa …
Read MoreOn The Rise: 1-21-19
Shelley Schneider (pictured)
IOOF Home and Community Therapy Center
Hired as director of nursing
Mason City
Billie Esser
IOOF Home and Community Therapy Center
Promoted to assistant director of nursing
Mason City
Jennifer Walker
Quad-Cities …
Guest opinion: Raising boys in a #MeToo world
By Angela Walker Franklin | President and CEO, Des Moines University
In the past year, the #MeToo movement has been the focus of many conversations, debates and arguments. Not a day goes by that we don’t hear …
Jan. 25: Norwalk Area Chamber Annual Awards Banquet
Host: Norwalk Area Chamber of Commerce
About: The 26th annual awards banquet celebrates a year of growth. The social hour will start at 6 p.m. with the dinner and program starting at 7. Tickets are …
Iowa’s Mainstreet Index rose in January
Creighton University’s Rural Mainstreet Index for Iowa rose to 54.2 in January from December’s 53.7. Anything over 50 indicates growth. Over the past 12 months, Iowa’s Rural Mainstreet economy saw jobs rise 0.5 percent, while urban areas …
Read MoreArt Center lands Warhol grant
The Des Moines Art Center has received a $100,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. The grant will support these exhibitions, along with commissions, publications and community programming: “Susan Collis: Without you the world goes …
Read MoreCommunity Foundation awards three major grants
The Community Foundation has awarded Leadership Grants to the Des Moines school district, the Evelyn K. Davis Center for Working Families and House of Mercy. Des Moines Public Schools will use its $100,000 grant to …
Read MoreUrbandale rejects Merle Hay housing plan
Rules are rules, procedures are procedures, and as a result the owners of Merle Hay Mall are no closer to a redevelopment plan for a stretch of parking lot planted on the Urbandale side of …
Read MoreJan. 31: Des Moines’ Market District Plan, An Area in Transition
Host: Urban Land Institute Iowa
About: Known as the Market District of the East Village, this area of downtown Des Moines has a fascinating history of primarily industrial and municipal government uses, yet the current wave …
NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Need to go to London for the day? Supersonic travel returning
When I was reporting for the Des Moines Register in 1985, I wrote a story about Omaha-based Godfather’s Pizza magnate Willy Theisen’s $500,000 40th birthday celebration trip to London aboard the supersonic Concorde with nearly …
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