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Des Moines Performing Arts announces first in-person shows since the start of pandemic

In what will be its first ticketed, in-person performances since before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Des Moines Performing Arts has announced two new concerts for December and March. The all-vocal country show Home …
By BPC Staff | May 13, 2021
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Agyeman to lead Evelyn K. Davis Center for Working Families

Ahmed Agyeman has been named the new director of the Evelyn K. Davis Center for Working Families. Agyeman, who is currently the director of community and global engagement at Des Moines Area Community College, will begin …
By BUSINESS RECORD STAFF | May 13, 2021
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VIDEO: Power Breakfast: COVID reset: 9 ways to make community progress

 

Now officially one year past the start of the coronavirus pandemic, we asked nine leaders to share thoughts on what it will take to reset our economy and work toward community progress together at …
By BPC Staff | May 13, 2021
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Cedar Rapids business owner named one of World’s 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune

Fortune magazine named Cedar Rapids barbecue business owner Willie Ray Fairley as No.16 among the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, a list Fairley shares with worldwide figures like Jacinda Ardern, Stacey Abrams, Dolly Parton and Malala Yousafzai. Fairley, who …
By BPC Staff | May 13, 2021
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Feeding Iowans Task Force to scale back its work as report details efforts to combat food insecurity in Iowa

Northeast Iowa Food Bank volunteers Eileen Gunderson, left, and Grace Coates check dates on perishable items in the food bank’s sorting room in Waterloo. File photo by Duane Tinkey

A year after it was created to help fight …
By MICHAEL CRUMB | May 13, 2021
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Huntington’s Disease Society’s Iowa chapter to host walk fundraiser on May 22

The Iowa Chapter of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America will host the Des Moines Team Hope Walk on May 22 at 8:30 a.m. at Raccoon River Park in West Des Moines, along with a …
By BPC Staff | May 12, 2021
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Iowa ranks third-worst for problem ’puppy mills,’ Humane Society report says

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Iowa ranks third-worst in the country for problem “puppy mills” that breed and raise their dogs in “inhumane and unsafe conditions,” according to a report issued this week by the Humane Society of …
By BPC Staff | May 12, 2021
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Iowa DHS allocates more than $5M in pandemic relief for Iowa foster youths

The Iowa Department of Human Services announced Tuesday it has allocated more than $5 million in new funding to benefit current and former foster care youths adversely affected by COVID-19. Pandemic Relief for Iowa Foster Youth and …
By BPC Staff | May 12, 2021
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Aquaculture researcher named 2021 World Food Prize laureate

The goal of global food production should not just be feeding the world’s growing population, but nourishing “all people and all nations as well as sustaining the health of the planet in the long term,” …
By MICHAEL CRUMB | May 11, 2021
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MercyOne House of Mercy Game Show Gala co-chairs, teams announced

MercyOne Central Iowa announced that the 2021 MercyOne House of Mercy Game Show Gala will take place virtually on June 24 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The game show portion of the event will be …
By BPC Staff | May 11, 2021