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Variety grants to benefit Mercy Children’s Hospital, House of Mercy

Variety — the Children’s Charity has awarded Mercy Foundation a $250,000 grant to benefit Mercy Children’s Hospital & Clinics and a $18,766 grant to benefit House of Mercy. The grants will fund remodeling projects for …

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DNR offers classes for Hispanic communities

Iowa DNR: The Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ Fish Iowa! angler education program has partnered with the Recreational Fishing and Boating Foundation’s Vamos A Pescar program to provide grants to local nonprofit organizations to support local …

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Variety grants to benefit Mercy Children’s Hospital, House of Mercy

Variety — the Children’s Charity has awarded Mercy Foundation a $250,000 grant to benefit Mercy Children’s Hospital & Clinics and a $18,766 grant to benefit House of Mercy. The grants will fund remodeling projects for …

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Jolly Holiday Lights getting ready for move to Adventureland

Jolly Holiday Lights is finishing plans for its first year at Adventureland in Altoona. The event previously was held for years at the sometimes flooded Des Moines Water Works Park. This year’s event, from Nov. …

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Principal, Campus Compact partner on community scholars program

Campus Compact, a national coalition of nearly 1,100 colleges and universities, today announced a new partnership with Principal Financial Group Inc. to create the Principal Community Scholars Program. The program, being piloted in Iowa and …

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Jolly Holiday Lights getting ready for move to Adventureland

Jolly Holiday Lights is finishing plans for its first year at Adventureland in Altoona. The event previously was held for years at the sometimes flooded Des Moines Water Works Park. This year’s event, from Nov. …

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IowaBio reschedules Cedar Rapids tour because of flood

A tour of the Creative Corridor’s bioprocessing facilities has been rescheduled for Nov. 30 because of flooding in Cedar Rapids. A welcome reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Nov. 29 at the …

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Environmental Council details Iowa’s nitrate risks

The nonprofit Iowa Environmental Council today released a white paper detailing nitrate pollution problems in Iowa and studies that have associated blue-baby syndrome, bladder cancer, birth defects and thyroid cancer with drinking high concentrations of…
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Iowa ranks in top 20 for toxic air releases

Des Moines Register: Iowa ranks among the top 20 states nationally for annual emissions of harmful chemicals and greenhouse gases into the air, according to an analysis of federal air quality data by the Center for …

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Des Moines Arts Festival wins international Grand Pinnacle Award

The Des Moines Arts Festival has received a Gold Grand Pinnacle Award for Best Festival in the World from the International Festivals & Events Association. The association presented the award Tuesday during its annual convention …