October 10, 2020 October is We Give month at the Claude W. & Dolly Ahrens Foundation/ Ahrens Park Foundation. The mission of S.H.E. COUNTS is to support, help, and empower women and girls in Poweshiek County. S.H.E. COUNTS is headed by a diverse group of women within the county who are committed to helping move [...]
October 9, 2020 Please consider supporting an upcoming Tiger Packs packaging event!
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[ad_1] The gardens are still growing despite the cooler weather last week. Yellow zucchini and cucumbers at Ahrens Park garden. Stop out and pick anytime. [ad_2] Source
[ad_1] Our annual Give Back ACES service-worship, a time when we would traditionally gather first in the Sanctuary to kick off worship and then go into the community to service-worship by working in the community through service projects, will look a little different this year! BUT, we are still organizing Give Back on October 18th [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
