Iowa Logo Program Spurs Company Label Use
Hundreds of Iowa firms use a new logo reading A Quality Product from Iowa USA, launched in 1980 by the Iowa Development Commission with help from the Iowa Manufacturers Association. Businesses apply to IDC at 250 Jewett Building Des Moines 50309 for verification.
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Des Moines
Lowa
Lowa USA
Iowa Development Commission
The
Commission
Iowa Manufacturers Association
IDC
Jewett Building
Volunteer opportunities and a Vulcan myth recounted
A local notice lists numerous volunteer roles from sign language tutoring to water safety instruction, mediation, sewing layettes, receptionist work, arts and crafts with disabled adults, and youth programs. Contacts include Tara Youells, Melody Rock, Gert Wilson, and others. It ends with a historical aside about Vulcan once rumored near Mercury.
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Tara Youells
Hillcrest Family Services
Melody Rock
Big Brothers & Big Sisters
Telecare
Peg Cronk
Red Cross
Witwer Senior Citizen Center
Edie
YWCA
Gert Wilson
Dear Abby reader proposes cremation paint ceiling request
Harmony in Ohio riffs on a Dear Abby letter about a wife who wished her ashes mixed with paint to decorate a bedroom ceiling to deter infidelity. The reply advised honoring the wish but cautioned about other lovers, prompting a humorous poem from a reader.
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Abby
Dayton
Harmony
Arnold T. Schwab
Westminster
Calif
P.O
Hollywood
New Albin Custodian to be honored
Shooky Fink, New Albin Elementary School custodian, will receive the Iowa Juvenile Probation Officers Association award for his 25 years of unpaid youth work. He was chosen by the executive board, nominated by the northeast Iowa region, and will be honored May 5 at the association's spring meeting in Davenport.
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New Albin
Harris “Shooky” Fink
Iowa
Fink
Marvin Hyde
Allamakee
Blackhawk
Davenport
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Council On Aging
UCP
Bender Pool
Claudia
Community Dispute Settlement Center
Jim Jensen
Handicapped Systems
Jane Boyd
Suzy Beshears
Janet
Terra Fitzpatrick
Susan Crouch
L.lv
Edie Liotis
Mercury
Dear Abby
Arnold
Is van Ren
Universal Press Syndicate
Albin
Cedar Rapids
Marion
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Insurancenter
Protier
Nsuram
Protec Thi
Shifflett Insurance Agency, Inc
Davis, Jones, Lamb Insurance, Inc
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