WIC expands buying power at markets in Iowa
Iowa officials announce a pilot expansion letting WIC recipients use $2 checks to buy Iowa grown fruits and vegetables at eight markets. About 4,500 clients in Waterloo Cedar Falls Cedar Rapids Iowa City Coralville Marshalltown Ames Atlantic Dallas County and Fort Dodge areas will receive $10 to $20 worth of checks.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Dale M. Cochran
WIC
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Coralville
Marshalltown
Ames
Atlantic
Dallas County
Fort Dodge
Cochran
Cedar Rapids Farmers Market
Coralville Farmers Market
S.T. Morrison Park
National Bank of Waterloo
Kimball Ridge Farmers Market
Shur- Fine Food
Cattlemen Organize Haylift for Southern Iowa Farms
Cattle feeders from Winnebago and Hancock counties plan to send 30 semi loads of hay to Decatur Ringgold Iowa and Poweshiek counties in an aid effort organized by the Iowa Cattlemen's Association. The drought has forced early hay feeding among area producers.
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Ames
Winnebago
Hancock
Iowa
Iowa Cattlemen’s Association
Decatur
Ringgold
Poweshiek
Iowa considers funding study on child abuse and foster care
The Juvenile Justice Advisory Council weighs a grant up to 25000 to back a 200000 study ordered by Governor Branstad on Iowa child abuse and foster care systems. The plan asks half funding from state agencies and half private sector, with results due by year's end for potential legislative action.
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Vanessa Shelton
Gazette
Iowa City
Juvenile Justice Advisory Council
Iowa
Terry Branstad
Allison Fleming
University of Iowa
Bonita Jansma
the Gazette
Branstad
Jansma
Iowa Department of Human Services
Governor’s Planning Council On Developmental Disabilities
Juvenile Justice Council
Governor’s Office
Council
Gil Cervey
Indiana man charged with drunken flying in Des Moines
Jack Avery, 54, of Cutler Indiana, was arrested at Des Moines airport and charged by the Iowa State Patrol with drunken flying. He was jailed in Polk County after posting a $575 bail bond, same as drunken driving.
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DES Moines
Indiana
Jack Avery
Cutler, Ind
Iowa State
Avery
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