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\'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

Emma Martz &Brian Muirhead demonstrate a     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

Garrett Stern and Kelon Caliste carry out a tree they cut down for woody vegetation removal. 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

Oak 4 poses in front of one of the burn piles at Faville Prairie. 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...

AmeriCorps NCCC FEMA Corps Class 19 Member Spotlight: Sergio Tundo

Sergio Tundo of Wayne, N.J., is serving as a member of the NCCC FEMA Corps team Pine 1 at the Vinton Campus. He chose to participate in AmeriCorps NCCC FEMA Corps because he wanted to do some good...

NCCC Team Comes Together for Iowa

Maple 4 Corps Member John MacKinnon sprays paint onto the walls of the new Northeast Iowa Food Bank   By: Jill Ament and Aidan Potter Maple 4 is an AmeriCorps NCCC team made up of eleven members hailing from all over the country. Maple 4’s first project is with the Northeast I...

AmeriCorps NCCC Class 19 Team Leader Spotlight: Calvin Landrum

  By: Rebecca Bigler Calvin Landrum, from Waco, Texas, is the Team Leader for Oak 7 in NCCC’s Class 19. He arrived in Vinton on January 8, 2013, to start his 11-month servi...