Posts in: Canoe

  • A large group of people in canoes padding the river on clean up day

    Iowa Project Aware Draws Hundreds For Service, Education Opportunity

    June 22, 2021

    Iowa Project AWARE is bringing families, friends and a cavalcade of educational programming to the lower and middle Raccoon River watershed July 11-16 with the return of this annual event. After a pause in 2020, N-Compass Inc. is busy preparing for hundreds of volunteers to gather in local parks for nightly camping and programming, catered [...]

  • A team of rowers on a river

    Local Veteran Finds Fresh Perspective On The Water

    April 27, 2021

    As I rowed down the river, I stopped to watch a deer run along the shore. There was something majestic about it, not that I had never seen a deer before, but that I’d never viewed one from this perspective. This was my first time sculling on the river with the Des Moines Rowing Club. [...]