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What We're Reading: Beyond Anxiety
This month's Adventures in Bookclubbing theme was 'Authors with Red Hair.' I chose to read ‘Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose’ by Martha Beck. It is a nonfiction book that was added to our collection just last month. In this book, Beck describes techniques for calming your inner anxiety creature, and then, once tamed, living a life full of creative energy. Wallace and Beverly Winkie Foundation Accepting Nominations
The Wallace and Beverly Winkie Foundation is accepting nominations for the Lifelong Learner Hall of Fame through June 1. Inductees into the hall of fame will be honored for their contributions—through example, discovery, or leadership— to the promotion of formal and informal lifelong learning and its benefits. All Iowans past and present, of all ages, and all Iowa organizations are eligible for nomination.
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What We're Reading: The Reappearance of Rachel Price
If you are a fan of unsolved mysteries and documentaries this is the book for you. Bel Price and her family have agreed to do a true crime documentary that will follow their family and dig up the past from when Bel's mom disappeared 16 years ago. Bel is irritated with this whole documentary thing and just wants her life to go back to normal.But it may never go back to normal. What We're Reading: Cleopatra and Frankenstein
I was excited when my hold for Coco Mellors' 'Cleopatra and Frankenstein' became available on the @libby.app after waiting several months for it! Yay! Check out this talented author if you haven't already!"Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Nominate a top educator as the next Iowa Teacher of the Year
If you know an outstanding Iowa teacher, we want to hear from you! The Iowa Department of Education is now accepting nominations for the 2026 Iowa Teacher of the Year through March 7.Anyone, including fellow educator colleagues, administrators, students and their parents, association or organization members and other community partners, can submit a nomination form for an exceptional K-12 teacher who is making an impact in an Iowa school.
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Iowa State University announces fall 2024 Deans List
More than 11,500 Iowa State University students have been recognized for outstanding academic achievement by being named to the fall semester 2024 Dean's List. Students named to the Dean's List must earn a grade point average of at least 3.50 on a 4.00 scale while carrying a minimum of 12 credit hours of graded course work. The following students are from your area: Atkins, Iowa Katelyn Buscher, Senior, Family and Consumer Sciences Education and Studies, B.
Area students named to the President's List at Iowa State University
The following students were named to the President's List at Iowa State University. Students achieving this prestigious designation have maintained a 4.0 GPA for two consecutive semesters. Atkins, Iowa Peyton Pfiffner, Elementary Education, B.S. Owen Sadler, Finance, B.S.Shellsburg, Iowa Ethan Rollinger, Agricultural Studies, B.
What We’re Reading: This Is How It Always Is
I recently read 'This Is How It Always Is' by Laurie Frankel. Published in 2017, this book came onto my radar after reading Frankel's 'Family Family.' The novel tells the story of a midwestern family of seven: Mom Rosie, Dad Penn, and five kids. Mom is an ER physician, Dad is an author working on his DN (damn novel), and all five children are unique, rambunctious, and eager to hear Dad tell stories at bedtime.
UW-Platteville announces Dean's List
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville announces its Dean's List, honoring those full-time students who earned a grade-point average of 3.75 and above in the fall 2024 semester. Students from this area on the Dean's List include: Vinton, IA Lauren Upmeyer, Biology BS, Main Logan Zearley, Software Engineering BS, Main
Hinson nominates Iowa students to U.S. Service Academies
Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (IA-02) announced her nomination of the following students from Iowa's Second Congressional District to U.S. Service Academies. "I am honored to nominate these phenomenal young Iowans to our U.S. Service Academies. Their dedication to serving our country is commendable, and I know they will be among the next generation of American patriots who will defend our precious freedoms.
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