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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...

Legislators Host AGC Member

Pictured here is Rep. Maxwell, Doug Martin and Rep. Pettengill.   On Wednesday, Reps. Dawn Pettengill (R-Mt. Auburn) and Dave Maxwell (R-Gibson) hosted Doug Martin from Wendling Quarries, Inc. at the State Capitol.  Martin is a member of the Asso...

AmeriCorps NCCC FEMA Corps Class 19 Member Spotlight: Naomi Eshleman

By: Krista Eichhorst   Name: Naomi Eshleman   Hometown: Hollywood, Fla.   Naomi is serving as a member of the NCCC FEMA Corps team Hickory 3 at the Vinton Ca...

Cedar 7 Rolls Up Their Sleeves in Minnesota

Corps Member Matt Bickers prices books. By: Alex Bissell   On March 13, AmeriCorps NCCC team Cedar 7 started work at a thrift shop managed by Family Pathways. There were a series of tasks assigned to them, the first of whic...

NCCC Oak 6 team helping Hurricane Sandy survivors in NYC

Oak 6 members are helping NYC recover from Hurricane Sandy.   The NCCC team of Oak 6 from the Vinton campus is in the heart of New York City, assisting the American Red Cross with giving financial assistance to those who have survived Hurricane San...

AmeriCorps NCCC Class 19 Team Leader Spotlight: Kelsey Grant

  Kelsey Grant, from Dover, Delaware, is the Team Leader for Maple 6 in NCCC’s Class 19. She arrived in Vinton on January 8, 2013, to start her 11-month service term leading a ...