Posted November 30, 2022in Your Neighbors
Husband-wife duo are longtime volunteers at the Des Moines Playhouse. Kim and Steve Blakesley have welcomed thousands of guests into the Des Moines Playhouse. They’ve volunteered for nearly every production [...]
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Posted November 02, 2022in Your Neighbors
Coffee roaster delivers joy via bicycle. Keep a sharp eye out around the metro, and you might spot an unusual sight: Chris James delivering coffee beans on his bike, with [...]
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Posted August 31, 2022in Your Neighbors
Most senior citizens pushing a century might prefer to take it easy, but not Iris Swanson. At 91 years old, she’s busier than ever before. “Whatever needs to be done [...]
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Posted July 06, 2022in Your Neighbors
When Penny Thomas arrived in Des Moines to study at Drake University, she thought she’d return home to India after earning her pharmacy degree. Sixty-six years later, she is still [...]
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Posted June 01, 2022in Your Neighbors
In 1999, a dog named Louie was severely hacked by a machete. How did radio host Lou Sipolt respond? He locked himself in a casket, entombed for three days. “We [...]
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Posted March 02, 2022in Your Neighbors
“I’ve always liked reading,” says Hunter Gillum, which is an obvious understatement. Almost every room in his house has books in it. Some of those rooms have multiple shelves of [...]
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Posted February 02, 2022in Your Neighbors
Once upon a time, toward the beginning of Des Moines’ timeline and very near what is now the city’s heart, a cluster of churches once stood around the space still [...]
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Posted January 05, 2022in Your Neighbors
From a rural village to Kabul to Johnston Once upon a time and a half a world away, there was a little boy in rural Afghanistan named Nabi Mohammadi. It [...]
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Posted May 05, 2021in Your Neighbors
Why does Tina Powell own two houseboats? This is a reasonable question, according to Powell, who readily admits that possessing a pair of floating homes wasn’t the original idea. Instead, [...]
Read More →Aquarium supervisor at Blank Park Zoo helps to combat Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease. “Big Momma” was a 330-year-old underwater giant coral mound. It thrived for centuries near Fort Lauderdale, [...]
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