Eddie and Rose
Drake Neighborhood Community Garden offers a place to grow, learn and share at no charge. Those who know Eddie Robinson well say that he is multilingual — speaking English, Spanish [...]
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Posted December 05, 2018in Your Neighbors
Posted October 31, 2018in Your Neighbors
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Licensed to hate and “officially awesome,” this Terrorhead helped orchestrate an official Guinness Book world record. A certificate hanging on Charlie Edrington’s wall says he helped organize “the loudest roar at a sports [...]
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Posted October 03, 2018in Your Neighbors
Soldier’s Mrs. Iowa journey lifts combat mask
Major Finken rediscovers herself through pageant. When Mrs. Iowa Jill Finken competed at the Mrs. America pageant in August in Las Vegas, it is quite likely that she was the only [...]
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Posted September 05, 2018in Your Neighbors
Welcome to the library
A helpful hand for nearly four decades “There is no more shushing at the library,” informs Tina Brooks. The long-time library clerk then pauses, ponders and decides to improve her statement. “There [...]
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Posted August 01, 2018in Your Neighbors
Making Waterbury green again
With a little help from neighborhood friends, Waterbury Gardens is back in bloom. The project near the corner of Ingersoll Avenue and 48th Street was once a paved roadway. Then it [...]
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Posted July 04, 2018in Your Neighbors
Waukee native returns home for a pair of country performances
To many younger Iowans, Nashville, Tennessee, might seem like an unreachable city of dreams, similar to New York City or Los Angeles. But these two Midwesterners are proving that, contrary [...]
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Posted June 06, 2018in Your Neighbors
All things are as they should be
Friends become family while serving Polish sausages and meat nachos Daisy Duke shorts adorn various customers of both genders as they wait in line for concessions at the Greater Des [...]
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Posted May 02, 2018in Your Neighbors
‘Brave’ brings rap artist and fire departments together
Will Keeps advocates for helping kids “out of the fire” of bullying Local rap artist Will Keeps has done it again, only this time, local firefighters are the heroes featured [...]
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Posted April 04, 2018in Your Neighbors
Former neighbors are throwing stones
Successful first season for former neighborhood buddies after forming a curling team By day, Mike Farrell is a commercial banker and a family man. But each Friday night during the [...]
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Posted February 28, 2018in Your Neighbors
Where in the world is Coach Carter?
Climbing the ranks and never giving up “This coach has swag,” says Kahlil Carter, as he describes himself. “Swag is about something you are, not something you wear. It is [...]
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