Designed to help children effectively cope with loss in a safe, accepting environment, camp activities focus on the grieving process, encouraging interaction with others who have experienced similar losses.
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Designed to help children effectively cope with loss in a safe, accepting environment, camp activities focus on the grieving process, encouraging interaction with others who have experienced similar losses.
The event will be held on June 11 at 10 a.m. Paddlers will start the race at Sturgis Ferry Park in Iowa City and will cross the finish line nine miles downriver at the Hills Campground in Hills.
Oak Hill Cemetery in Cedar Rapids tells our shared stories.
The innovation lab at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids helped build an adaptive keyboard for Lotus Friedman, a 13-year-old from Dubuque who was paralyzed from the waist down after a skiing accident earlier this year. The ability to play her favorite game is a reprieve from day-to-day hospital life, she said.
Windblown sparks ignited Tip Top wooden warehouse
Kirkwood Community College, a 55-year-old Cedar Rapids-based higher education fixture that’s ballooned to a sprawling network of 14 campuses in seven Iowa counties, for the first time is conducting a comprehensive review of its Iowa City campus to ensure it is meeting the needs of the community in which it sits.
An amendment to a state Department of Revenue bill included the exemption, adding Iowa to what has become a nationwide movement to remove sales taxes on menstrual products and diapers.
From ample water access to cheap international cuisine, Storm Lake has enough to feel like a destination in the middle of nowhere.
One of the Fairfield teens charged with killing a Spanish teacher wants a judge to suppress his statements made to police and to move his trial out of Jefferson County.
Although the proposed moratorium is dead, its sponsor believes lawmakers who supported it sent a signal on behalf of Iowa landowners who are opposed to the use of eminent domain to secure private land for pipeline projects.
Eligible Johnson County residents will have until 2 p.m. on Friday to get their applications submitted for a one-time emergency relief check of $1,400.
SF 2378, which will take effect July 1 if signed by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds, will raise the handling fee from 1 to 3 cents per container, let distributors continue to retain the unredeemed deposits, which are estimated to be as much as $40 to $50 million a year and let retailers that meet certain condition opt out of redeeming containers.
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