Living

Manchester’s whitewater rapids just the ticket on a hot Friday

Quentin Blazicek is one of four Cedar Rapids fathers who enrolled last fall in the Caring Dads program, a 17-week support group offered by Waypoint for dads who want to improve their relationships with their children to end or avoid controlling, abusive or neglectful behavior.

In the 36 years between the first ‘Top Gun’ movie in 1986 and ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ now in theaters, one Marion man has identified Iowa’s 40 ace pilots and collected 365 models of the planes they flew.

Critter Crusaders helped a 9-month-old puppy with hip and head injuries and other fractures by offering the medical care he needed after being hit be a car on First Avenue in Cedar Rapids in April. Caesar, a Lab-pit bull mix, is still recovering and in foster care but soon will be ready for adoption.

Step into the past at Swedish settlement of Bishop Hill, Ill.

Want blooms all season long? Plan a perennial bed so that you have something in bloom at all times.

For the next month, $2 will be donated to help affordable housing for every selfie taken on a new public art installation.

If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time and money on your garden. But just as with a house, the most important money and energy you can spend is on the foundation. And the foundation of a garden is the soil.