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Day of Caring 2024 Recap

You helped us provide more than 5,000 care kits to students in our community!

We would like to extend a special “THANK YOU” to YOU for making our Shine Bright – Care Kits for Kids event a huge success! August 7-11, the MidAmerica Center was filled with excitement, joy, smiles, great energy and a lot of heart.

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Keeping the heat on when temperatures drop

Keeping the heat on when temperatures drop Resources available to help combat higher bills Feb 7, 2019 Nick Amatangelo Reporter/Multimedia Journalist The snow moved out of the metro Thursday morning, leaving freezing temperatures behind. When the weather takes an extreme

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Local Assistance for Government Shutdown

Local Assistance for Government Shutdown Devin Owens   Feb 7th, 2019 While the 35-day shutdown is temporarily over, the challenges experienced by federal workers are still being felt across the nation and even locally. For many federal workers, missing two pay

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