Ed Gruenwald is passionate about his job. Watching the director of Hartman Reserve Nature Center talk with a group of kids about mussels and watching their eyes get big and their hands go up demonstrates...

The children's book "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" and alphabet refrigerator magnets may not jump out as the solution to poverty, but these simple items in the toolbox of Hawkeye Community College's Family Literacy Program staff...

Imagine your life depending on emergency communications systems that may or may not work. Your life could be saved by information relayed from first responders to the ambulance in route, but minutes are lost because...

Luther College in Decorah is home to great minds developing innovative solutions to make communities better, and in the case of the Cafeteria (CAF) to Community project, more sustainable. "We recognize how much food in...

Five lives saved. That is the impact Ruth and Robert Walker made in Fayette County in 2014. It was a difference made because of the legacy Ruth wanted to leave and planned for."Ruth's life was...

Throughout history, music has been linked to the vibrancy and vitality of place and time. It is part of our every day lives and an integral part of the Cedar Valley."We want to offer as...