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NCCC Oak 7 serving as camp counselors in Michigan

Oak 7 members are serving as camp counselors this spring. Oak 7, a NCCC team, based out Vinton, Iowa, is at Lake Sherman YMCA Camp in Augusta, Michigan from March 11 to April 26. They are counselors for campers of the Kalamazoo area, with students ranging...

NCCC Cedar 6 serves students, environment in Jackson, Mich.

Alyse Cheyne hauls buckthorn to a brush pile.   AmeriCorps NCCC team Cedar 6 is serving in Jackson, Michigan at the YMCA Storer Camps from Mar. 11 – Apr. 26. During the team’s seven-week project, five weeks are dedica...

Mayor\'s Day: Vinton Mayor Watson joins NCCC for recognition of service

Mayor's Day: NCCC members Julia Sanders and Bellille Wilkinson join John Watson in Vinton.   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

Maple 4 poses in front of a Rock the Block trailer.  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

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...