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‘Meet Your Neighbors’ boxes available in W.D.M. for Multicultural Children’s Book Day

The West Des Moines Community School District and the West Des Moines Public Library are partnering to offer Meet Your Neighbors Story Boxes, take-home collections of books, music and activities aimed as children in preschool through …

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Wine, Food & Beer Showcase to feature 48 Des Moines vendors at annual tasting event

Des Moines Metro Opera’s annual Wine, Food & Beer Showcase fundraiser will be held Feb. 21 at the downtown Marriott from 6 to 9 p.m., the opera announced. The showcase features 48 vendors from around …

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Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines sees record-breaking year in 2019

The Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines saw a record-breaking year for charitable giving in 2019 with over $51.4 million in grants made to more than 2,160 charitable causes. 

The historic success bodes well for …

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NOTEBOOK: What would it mean for the state’s economy if Iowa loses its first-in-the-nation status?

It didn’t take long for national figures to predict the death of Iowa’s first-in-the-nation status amidst the ongoing delay of final results from the Democratic Iowa caucuses – heck, people have been forecasting the change …

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Power Breakfast preview: Business of nonprofits and corporate giving

The Greater Des Moines business community has a long history of philanthropic giving, volunteerism and cause-oriented work. Now there are more worthy causes to support. Our nonprofit and corporate giving Power Breakfast will discuss some …

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Iowa Democratic Party chair apologizes for results reporting delays, calling process ‘unacceptable’

Des Moines Register: The head of the Iowa Democratic Party apologized somberly Tuesday for botching the highly anticipated release of the party’s caucus results, calling the delay unacceptable. “I apologize deeply for this,” said party …

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Fareway, Dole offer Learning Garden contest for Iowa schools

Fareway and Dole Packaged Foods LLC have launched a second annual Learning Garden contest that will grant two elementary schools in Fareway’s store footprint with a Captain Planet Foundation Learning Garden. The contest began Feb. …

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Participants and mentors named for 2020 Community Connect program

The Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute has announced the program participants and mentors selected for the 2020 Community Connect program. The program offers a curriculum that links discovery of one’s personal purpose to intentional community …

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Reception features art created by families experiencing homelessness

Family Promise of Greater Des Moines (FPGD) is hosting an art reception to showcase art pieces created by families, mostly children, who are current or former guests of the organization, FPGD announced. Art will be …

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Caucus snafu raises questions as Iowa, nation wait for results

The Iowa Democratic Party said early Tuesday the “underlying data” collected on the smartphone app used to report caucus results “was sound” but the system was only reporting out partial data, leading to an ongoing…