It’s Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024.
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Hey folks, it’s Amie, and it’s time for some good news!
This week:
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- Davenport’s charm spotlighted on PBS show 📺
- Des Moines teens get ready to present to NASA 🚀
- Injured bald eagle in Milford on the mend 🦅
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As a Muscatine native, I always thought of Davenport as the “big city.” But in a new episode of the PBS show, “John McGivern’s Main Streets,” it definitely feels like small-town America.
Davenport and its many attractions were the focus of the series’ most recent episode, which aired last week and is available on demand.
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McGivern and co-host Emmy Fink showcased
some of the best of what Southeast Iowans already know about the city (the 360-degree bridge, the Figge, where Isabel Bloom sculptures are made).
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But I’ve never eaten at Taste of Ethiopia, nor seen the three-ton (!) Buddha statue at the old Palmer house, so I definitely need to go back.
💬 “Anytime the authenticity of the Quad Cities is showcased outside of the market is a win for our whole community.”
~Katrina Keuning, Visit Quad Cities
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2. Fly them to the moon 🌖
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The lone Iowa team to submit a project for the NASA App Development Challenge will present it to a NASA panel next week.
NASA is planning to launch its Artemis III mission to land on the moon in 2025, and asked middle and high school teams to chart a path for astronauts to land on the moon’s South Pole region.
But of the 100+ entrants, only one team was from Iowa—a group of juniors and one sophomore from Des Moines North High School and Des Moines Virtual Campus that call themselves Team FrostByte.
After their Feb. 7 presentation, they’ll find out Feb. 28 if they’re one of the top teams that will be invited to Johnson Space Center in April.
💬 “Having that support feels really great as kids, and that just encourages not only me, but peers around me, to do the same.”
~Romas Pokhrel, one of five students on Team FrostByte
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3. Where the eagles fly 🦅
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When a couple of hunters south of Milford noticed a thin bald eagle dragging his left wing on the ground, they quickly acted to get him rescued—and may have saved his life.
Dickinson the eagle (so named for Dickinson County) survived whatever broke his wing, slow starvation, and several days if not weeks of brutal winter temperatures on the ground.
But after the Jan. 14 rescue, he’s now
recovering and gaining weight at Saving Our Avian Resources (SOAR) in Carroll County.
If he can’t fly again, he’ll have a home at SOAR to live out his days. But if he can fly, he’ll be released back in the wild.
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“”It was just something we needed to do. You could just see how frail he was. I’m just happy to hear he might fly again.”
~Rodger Linn, one of two hunters that rescued Dickinson
Found an injuredanimal? Get in touch with one of these licensed wildlife rehabilitators across Iowa.
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End with something cute 🐕
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This is Lucy the beagle. She’s obsessed with the smell of squirrels, long walks in the snow, and digging nests out of blankets on the couch.
(Photo submitted by Trevor J.)
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