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Mayor\'s Day: Vinton Mayor Watson joins NCCC for recognition of service
Mayor John Watson, along with more than 600 mayors across the country, are acknowledging the first-ever Mayors Day of Recognition for National Service on April 9, a nationwide bipartisan... AmeriCorps NCCC Class 19 Team Leader Spotlight: Martha Mickelson
By: Rebecca Bigler
Martha Mickelson, from Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, is the Support Team Leader for the Cedar and Hickory units in NCCC’s Class 19. She arrived in Vinton on January 3, 2013, t... NCCC Team Builds Homes for Families in Des Moines
By Jill Ament
The AmeriCorps NCCC team of Maple 4 finished their work with the Northeast Iowa Food Bank in Waterloo, Iowa, last Friday and are now working on the second half of their project ... \'Partnering\' to be another theme for CP Historical Society
The Center Point Historical Society chose the Civil War as their museum and activity theme for 2013 but at its regular March meeting “partnering” turned out to run a close se...
AmeriCorps NCCC Class 19 Team Leader Spotlight: Chad Every
Chad Every, from Maumee, Ohio, is the Team Leader for Cedar 7 in NCCC’s Class 19. He arrived in Vinton on January 8, 2013, to start his 11-month service term leading a team o... NCCC’s Cedar 5 Brings Fresh Faces to Bemidji Science Center
Cedar 5 couldn’t wait to get started on their project after hearing about the grassroots efforts of the Headwaters Science Center (HSC), which touches 30,000 individual... NCCC’s Maple 5: Fowl Sunrises and Woody Sunsets on the Prairie
Maple 5 of Vinton’s AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) program is working in northwestern Minnesota at Rydell and Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuges. The team is locati... AmeriCorps NCCC Class 19 Team Leader Spotlight: Brenna Huggins
By: Rebecca Bigler
Brenna Huggins, from Mukilteo, Wash., is the Team Leader for Oak 1 in NCCC’s Class 19. She arrived in Vinton on January 8, 2013, to start her 11-month service term lea... NCCC Team Works on Horticultural Tasks at the UW Arboretum
By Forrest Maher and Jessica Beck
AmeriCorps NCCC team Oak 4 is currently at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum in Madison, Wis., helping remove invasive species and doing other hor... Rockwell Collins makes donation to Eastern Iowa Honor Flights
Rockwell Collins made a generous donation to the Eastern Iowa Honor Flight of $25,000. Eastern Iowa Honor Flight will have two flights this spring on April 23 and May 21 thanks to many private don...