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August 20, 2020
Importance of Marriage Counseling
Couples learn quickly before, during and after the wedding ceremony that marriage isn’t as easy as they thought. It requires hard work and commitment. After the blissful honeymoon-period, couples often realize that they are not as compatible as they previously thought. Or they encounter problems which they never thought would be an issue. Or [...]
Campaign begins to replace trees lost in derecho
October 7, 2020 By Nadia Langley, writer for The Scarlet & Black Imagine Grinnell recently launched its 1000+ Trees Grinnell Initiative, a project that aims to restore the trees lost in Poweshiek and neighboring counties as a result of August’s derecho. Imagine Grinnell is a partner program of the Claude W. and Dolly Ahrens [...]
Music Lessons Can Boost Kids’ Cognitive Skills & Academics
October 7, 2020 School music lessons can significantly boost children’s cognitive skills, including language-based reasoning, short-term memory, planning and inhibition, according to a new Dutch study published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience. In addition, these cognitive skills developed through music go on to positively influence students’ performance in completely unrelated subjects, resulting in [...]
Local Foundations Launch Annual Campaign to Build Community
October 5, 2020 Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation (GPCF) and the Claude W. and Dolly Ahrens Foundation (CDAF) announce the launch of the joint annual fundraising campaign titled “We Give.” Since 2011, October has been the focus of an annual giving campaign for the GPCF, historically called Big GIVE. “After a tumultuous year of a [...]
October is We Give month
October 5, 2020 October is We Give month for the Claude W. & Dolly Ahrens Foundation/Ahrens Park Foundation and Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation. Take Away Hunger is a food relief organization that unites teams of local volunteers. The Grinnell advisory board coordinates four community-wide packaging events annually where teams package highly nutritious food that is sent [...]
Recipients of Food Vouchers say “Thank You!”
October 1, 2020
Imagine Grinnell Cleanup at Marvin Garden
September 28, 2020 Imagine Grinnell board members and friends gathered on Saturday to clean up perennial spaces at Marvin Garden. After getting through multiple layers of burs we successfully moved 4 truck loads to the brush dump! Thanks to everyone who helped!
Food coalition seeking donations to meet increased need
September 21, 2020 Members of the Grinnell Food Coalition (GFC) are seeking donations to help area families in need through the end of the year. Need grew dramatically in August as unemployment supplements ended and the derecho struck. And GFC is now asking community members who can, to contribute toward GFC food vouchers. Joe [...]
Marvin Garden donates fresh produce to MICA
September 24, 2020 Donations to MICA yesterday from Marvin Garden! Thank you Poweshiek County Master Gardeners of Iowa and Imagine Grinnell Foundation for your hard work on Marvin Garden.