Urbandale, Iowa — Want to show off your creativity and add your own art to Urbandale’s Walker Johnson Park? Here’s your chance! Saturday, August 26, Community Youth Concepts and the City of Urbandale will co-host the eighth annual Sidewalk Chalk Flood, a family focused, fun event to encourage creativity and
Read More →WEST DES MOINES, Iowa – Iowans for Adoption (The National Center for Adoption) is pleased to announce its first annual adoption banquet at Glen Oaks Country Club. Doors will open at 5 p.m. and end at 9 p.m. The banquet will include dinner, a cash bar, a silent auction and
Read More →Kathy Evert, owner of KJ Signs, LLC dba Signarama-Ankeny, has received the designation as a Certified Woman Business Enterprise (WBE) from the National Women Business Owners Corporation (NWBOC). The certification was awarded August 15. KJ Signs is 100 percent woman-owned and woman-controlled by Evert. The WBE certification offers the business
Read More →REWARD OF UP TO $500 FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE ARREST OF THE SUSPECT(S) IN THIS CASE. Waukee Crime Stoppers and the Waukee Police Department need the public’s assistance identifying the person or persons responsible for Arson. On Monday, August 14, 2017, at approximately 5:45 a.m., a fire
Read More →The Ankeny Area Chamber of Commerce, through the Public Affairs Committee, will host a public forum for the 2017 Ankeny Board of Education candidates on Thursday, September 7 at 6 p.m. The forum will be held at Prairie Ridge Middle School, 1010 NW Prairie Ridge Drive, Ankeny. Participating candidates include
Read More →DES MOINES, Iowa (August 16, 2017) – European Solheim Cup Captain Annika Sörenstam announced today that Catriona Matthew will replace the injured Suzann Pettersen at The 2017 Solheim Cup, being conducted this week at Des Moines Golf & Country Club in West Des Moines, Iowa. Sorenstam chose Matthew as her
Read More →The Renaissance Faire at Sleepy Hollow is “giving back” this year: The festival is partnering with the Youth Emergency Services & Shelter (YESS) the first weekend, the Metro Arts Alliance the second weekend, and the Animal Rescue League (ARL) of Iowa the third weekend. By purchasing your tickets with codes
Read More →The Charles Walker Band, an original funk/soul band from Milwaukee will be on tour supporting their latest release “Ghetto Prophet,” performing Sept. 15 at Des Moines Social Club (900 Mulberry St, Des Moines) at 9 p.m. with tickets at $7. The three-piece band, having opened for the likes of B.B. King, The Commodores
Read More →WHAT: Second Chance: My Story Come hear the personal story of one of the last living survivors from Schindler’s List – a “Schindler Jew” who graduated from North High School and Grinnell College. WHO: At 13 years old, after 5 years in a ghetto and forced labor camp in Poland, Celina
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48 hour film project
Three-dozen hobbyist filmmakers compete in the 13th annual 48 Hour Film Project, a hurried competition to write, film and complete a short film. It took 15 years for James Cameron’s “Avatar” to reach the silver screen. The 30-plus teams competing in the annual 48 Hour Film Project: Des Moines have
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