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    Creating an ICON is About Creating Connection

    July 30, 2021

    What you need to talk about is how you’re bringing together a confluence of different cultures. - BIPOC Interviewee Des Moines is not only the confluence of two rivers but also the confluence of different people, cultures, identities, and lifestyles. While creating a unified and connected water trail system is an important goal for the [...]

  • 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 [...]