Quaker Oats raises $7,700 for E. Iowa Honor Flight

ROGER UTHOFF, HONOR FLIGHTS
June 2, 2013 4:31 pm

Quaker Oats held a fund raiser for Eastern Iowa Honor Flight at Green Square Park in Cedar Rapids Sat. June 1. For a $5 donation a bag of Quaker products worth approx $25 was received.

AmeriCorps NCCC FEMA Corps Class 19 Member Spotlight: Emily Roldan

AMERICORPS NCCC
May 31, 2013 11:52 am

By: Krista Eichhorst   Name: Emily Roldan   Hometown: Saint Francisville, La.   Emily is serving as a member of the NCCC FEMA Corps team Spruce 6 at the Vinton Campus.

Hallberg earns spot on Dean's List

VINTON TODAY
May 30, 2013 2:20 pm

Andrea Hallberg, a student at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, has earned a spot on the Academic Dean’s List for the spring 2013 semester.

NCCC FEMA Corps Pine 2 Volunteers on Great Gull Island

AMERICORPS NCCC
May 30, 2013 12:16 pm

By Leah Keith and Jeana DiBona   On May 10 AmeriCorps NCCC-FEMA Corps team Pine 2 boarded the Sunbeam VI, a small boat in Waterford, Connecticut, and headed for Great Gull Island, without any idea of the experience the 17-acre abandoned military fort would bring to the team.

AmeriCorps NCCC Class 19 Corps Member Spotlight: David Chupp

AMERICORPS NCCC
May 30, 2013 12:16 pm

By: Rebecca Bigler   David Chupp, from Connersville, Ind., is a member of Cedar 3 in NCCC’s Class 19. He arrived in Vinton on February 5, 2013, to start his 10-month service term on a team of people between the ages of 18 and 24.

NCCC’s Maple 7 Lends A Helping Hand to Headwaters Science Center in Bemidji, MN

AMERICORPS NCCC
May 30, 2013 12:15 pm

By: Corey Milligan   The NCCC team of Maple 7 has been in Bemidji, MN since May 5th for their second round to assist the staff at Headwaters Science Center (HSC).

Bartholomew Upah of Belle Plaine Graduates from Clemson University

VINTON TODAY
May 30, 2013 11:39 am

Bartholomew Upah of Belle Plaine graduated from Clemson University May 10, 2013, with a Master of Education in Counselor Education (Student Affairs).

AmeriCorps NCCC FEMA Corps Team Organizes Community Day in Fairfax, Va.

AMERICORPS NCCC
May 29, 2013 11:57 am

By Benin Laliberte   On Saturday May 25, AmeriCorps NCCC FEMA Corps team Pine 1 organized and participated in a community day with Volunteer Fairfax in Fairfax, Virginia.

In the Park with FEMA Corps Team Spruce 5

AMERICORPS NCCC
May 29, 2013 11:57 am

By Emma Messinger   May brought with it warm weather and bright spirits to the towns along the Susquehanna River.  With the cherry blossoms in bloom, what better time to have a community day? When the FEMA Corps team Spruce 5 first came to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in early April the Project Outreach Liaisons Max Rusek and Kristy Reponen began the initial planning of the community day.

Local students graduate from Central College

VINTON TODAY
May 29, 2013 11:50 am

The following local students graduated from Central College Saturday, May 11. The ceremony was held at H.S. Kuyper Fieldhouse in Pella, Iowa. There were 348 graduates from 15 states and one foreign country.