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NCCC Class 21 Corps Member Spotlight: Kyla Russell

By: Marilyn Ponce   Name: Kyla Russell Hometown: Troy, NY   Kyla from Troy, New York is serving on team Cedar 7 in AmeriCorps NCCC Corps Class 21. She arrived in Vint...

NCCC Cedar 6 assists the USFWS in Upham, N.D.

 Cedar 6’s first successful prescribed burn. By: Bryce Bolds Over the last few weeks, Cedar 6 has completed many projects on the J Clark Salyer and Upper Souris Wildlife Refuges by removing fences to expand the land on the refuge and duck...

Upper Iowa University Announces Spring 2014-15 Dean's List

Upper Iowa University has released its 2014-15 Dean's List. To be honored, the undergraduate must have earned a minimum 3.50 GPA for the semester and be enrolled as a full-time student. Th...

Maple 4 Splits to Hopkinton

 Maple 4 member Emily Schaeffer wet scrapes lead paint at Lennox College in Hopkinton, IA By Zachary Pyle Maple 4 spent the first half of their project which began on May 1 with Spirit of the Hills Sanctuary in Spearfish, South Dakota. Afterwards, the team arrived in Hopkinton, Iow...

NCCC Cedar 3 planting and refining at Toledo Botanical Garden/Toledo GROWS

Cedar 3 shoveling compost to fill new raised beds that were installed by previous volunteers By: Phillip Keen NCCC team Cedar 3 of Vinton, Iowa is serving with the Toledo Botanical Garden and Toledo GROWS organizations in Ohio until June 11. Cedar 3 is helping bringing life back to ga...

AmeriCorps NCCC Saves the Environment with University of Wisconsin Arboretum

Dakota Patterson from Bethel, Maine weeding in the nursery garden By Zach Carpenter When AmeriCorps NCCC team Oak 7 arrived at the University of Wisconsin (UW) Arboretum, they knew very little about native ecology. During this service project, Oak 7 has lear...

Jaclyn Shear joins NCCC staff at Vinton campus

Jaclyn Shear is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has recently been hired as the Community Relations Associate for the North Central Region. She graduated in 2014 from Iona College ...

Upper Iowa University Announces Spring 2014-15 Dean's List

Upper Iowa University has released its 2014-15 Dean's List. To be honored, the undergraduate must have earned a minimum 3.50 GPA for the semester and be enrolled as a full-time student. La...

National Garden Week: Local clubs lead annual celebration

Fran Stueck and Becky Moen joined Mayor Watson as he proclaimed Garden Week.           The week of June 7-13, 2015  has been proclaimed National Garden week by National Garden Clubs, Inc. This is a special week in which garden clubs are in the ...

Loras College Announces Spring 2015 Dean\'s List

Loras College Provost Cheryl Jacobsen, Ph.D. has announced the names of students who achieved Dean's List status for the 2015 spring semester. A student must earn a 3.5 grade point average and ...