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Senior health fair
If you’re 50 or older, grab your ear trumpet, and listen up! Des Moines University is holding a Senior Health Fair for those 50 and older. It’s Free Saturday, November 1 8 am until noon Student...
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Senior Health Fair 2
The Senior Health Fair was time well spent today at Des Moines University! I expected as much. I walked away from the Fair with a message that I knew, but it was a message that I have been conveniently...
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Hoops 4 Hope, the Des Moines connection
Lately, we’re seeing a lot about Hoops 4 Hope, a loose consortium of activities raising money for cancer prevention, detection, and cure. Depending on who’s sponsoring it, each Hoops for Hope activity...
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Climb Iowa 2009
Climb Iowa at 801 Grand is coming up! Good choice of words, eh? It’s also called 801 Grand Power Climb if you are a little more macho. In either case it is your big chance to climb the 41 floors/85...
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DOA in Iowa
In the State of Iowa the Department of Elder Affairs is changing its name to Department on Aging. Local politicos think that the acronym DOA is too much of an in-your-face reminder. They are falling...
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Massage
Doesn’t everyone love a massage? The Mayo Clinic supports massage for relief of stress and pain as well as for promotion of the healing of various medical conditions. You may find a host of massage...
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Neighborhood cleanup days 2009 (SCRUB)
Has anyone ever told you, “Clean up after yourself?” or “Get that thing out of here!”? Lately? Want to get rid of it free? I have just the information you have been waiting for! SCRUB Days are times...
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Free yoga at Gray’s Lake
What could be better? yoga free Gray’s Lake (north side, park by the beach) Saturday mornings from 9 am to 10 am 17 weeks beginning June 6 and running through September 26 a variety of instructors...
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Des Moines and San Francisco: a subjective view
Last month I visited family in the Bay Area of California – plenty of time to see some differences between Polk County in Central Iowa and San Mateo County just south of San Francisco. In the earlier...
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Swimming around Des Moines 2009
Lookin’ for a place to swim? You have lots of choices: indoors; outdoors; chlorinated and not. If you have never heard The Swimming Song, check out this YouTube video with Loudon Wainwright III (who...
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