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AmeriCorps Spruce 1 reaches out in Chicago

  The AmeriCorps NCCC FEMA Corps team Spruce One from the North Central Region in Vinton, Iowa is working in downtown Chicago, Illinois alongside FEMA in the Region V administrative office...

NCCC Team Grows With Buchanan County Conservation

Dani McDonald uses a staple gun to make a compost bin. By: David Chernyshov The AmeriCorps NCCC team of Maple 2 is working with the Buchanan County Conservation Board (BCCB) in Hazleton, Iowa for their first round project. Since March, Maple 2 ...

FEMA Corps Team Helps Community in New Hampshire

Team Member Chris Southwick shoveling mulch at Dover City Hall. By: Christian Lockwood   On Saturday, April 20, members of the AmeriCorps NCCC-FEMA Corps team Spruce 3 served at the Dover Pride Clean-Up Day in Dover, New Hampshire. Teammates as we...

Focus Groups Identify Community Needs and Opportunities in Shellsburg

Focus Groups Identify Community Needs and Opportunities     Contacts: Nancy Thorkildson, Shellsburg citizen, 319-521-4080 Dustin Hinrichs, Trees Forever, 319-373-0650...

AmeriCorps NCCC Class 19 Team Leader Spotlight: Joseph Reilly

  By: Rebecca Bigler   Joseph Reilly, from Denver, Colo., is the Operations Support Team Leader in NCCC’s Class 19. He arrived in Vinton on January 3, 2013, to start hi...

NCCC Team at Tree Museum

Cedar 3 By: Trent Roberts AmeriCorps NCCC team Cedar 3 is working with Taltree Arboretum & Gardens in Valparaiso, Ind. To date, Cedar 3 has made progress clearing invasive plants - including m...

NCCC’s Maple 7 Sees A New Kind of Garbage On The River

The team poses together in front of the garbage they’ve helped collect from the river. By: Anthony Chin and Corey Milligan   To start off their first project together, Maple 7 was sent to Memphis, Tennessee to work with Living Lands & Waters for two weeks, which is ...

Bethlehem Lutheran Church Centennial Committee presents March gift

ennial Committee Chair Gregg Sampson presenting the March gift to Jeff Bonlander, Service Director f The Bethlehem Lutheran Church Centennial Committee presented the March gift for their $100 years/$100 per month campaign at services April 7.  In the months leading up to the Church’s Ce...

FEMA Corps Members Lend Helping Hands In Chicago

Team Leader Becky Hofkes finds a pair of pliers By: Maya Jordan Several corps members of team Hickory 7 from Vinton’s AmeriCorps NCCC-FEMA Corps (National Civilian Community Corps) program recently served on an Independent Service Pro...

Do you know “Why I Want to Limbo with the Llamas”?

  Iowa Llama Association Offering Llama Limbo Slot to Writing Contest Winner   At the annual meeting of the Iowa Llama Association (ILA) it was determined to hold an essay co...