Health care professionals receive special invite to visit DMACC greenhouse DMACC Horticulture students traditionally open the DMACC greenhouse for a public plant sale at the end of every spring semester. This spring, the public sale had to be canceled due to COVID-19, but students had already begun raising hundreds of
Read More →It breaks our hearts to announce we must postpone the festival due to COVID-19 concerns. We are coming back bigger and better than ever on August 6-8, 2021. Almost all of this year’s lineup is still in for 2021 — including headliners Leon Bridges, Of Monsters and Men, and Tyler
Read More →DES MOINES, Iowa (May 28, 2020) –In celebration of Art Week (June 19-26), Polk County Conservation, the Great Outdoors Foundation, Mainframe Studios and the organizers of Art Week are teaming up to offer a self-guided art treasure hunt to help you explore various parks and trails in our community. Find
Read More →(Boone) – The Iowa Governor’s Office and the Iowa Department of Public Health donated more than 35,000 masks on May 22 for Fareway to distribute the masks to their customers. “We appreciate the generous donation, and partnership with Governor Reynolds and the Iowa Department of Public Health,” said Fareway President and
Read More →Business Donates to the Community through Serve Local WEST DES MOINES, IA: Smash Park has recently provided its patrons a chance to help give back to the community through their new fundraising platform, Serve Local. The new program allows guests to select a charity of choice from a list of partner
Read More →DES MOINES, IOWA – Iowa Wild, in conjunction with the American Hockey League (AHL), announced today that Kaapo Kahkonen is the winner of the Aldege “Baz” Bastien Memorial Award as the AHL’s outstanding goaltender for the 2019-20 season. The award is voted on by coaches, players and members of the
Read More →Distinctive, community-centric campaigns earn six trophies and an executive nod in the 2020 AMA Iowa NOVA Awards competition (Des Moines, Iowa – May 26, 2020) – Bank Iowa’s marketing team is celebrating seven marketing awards received from the American Marketing Association’s Iowa Chapter. Among the AMA Iowa NOVA Award honors is
Read More →The Covid-19 pandemic persists. Find ways to culturally and creatively continue explore. Please be safe and wise if you have to venture into public areas. – John Busbee for The Culture Buzz Quotes of the Week “How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and
Read More →AMES, Iowa – May 26, 2020 – Iowa Games officials announced today that the bulk of sports for the 2020 Summer Iowa Games presented by Grinnell Mutual in Ames and surrounding communities have been cancelled due to COVID-19. Due to the group gathering nature of this large-scale sports festival and social-distancing
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Hate never solves anything
Some of the nicest people I’ve known have been police officers from county to state to city cops. I have some dear friends who wear badges and they are good people. The police officers who killed George Floyd on May 25 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at that moment and time were not
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