It’s Lent, aka fish fry season, and Dubuque 365 put together a nice list of places Catholics (or anyone! they don’t check!)can eat fish on Fridays in Northeast Iowa and the broader tri-state area.
Iowa has a long and complicated history with its treatment of Black Iowans, including attacks on “DEI” today.
But it wasn’t always so—like when Iowa integrated schools more than 80 years before Brown v. Board of Education (in my hometown of Muscatine), or how we had the only Black officer training facility at Fort Des Moines in 1917.
🍎 Money for new teachers: When William Penn University students approached Iowa legislators about providing a stipend to help retain teaching graduates in Iowa, they were told they should prove the concept. So the students launched a new program last fall that provides student teachers a $1,000 stipend per semester, funded by Oskaloosa Schools—money that helps them pay for rent and bills. “Business students get paid for internships. Engineers get paid for internships. Why shouldn’t educators?” said Liam Bryant, a senior at William Penn.
🐕 Good life for Good Boy: After he was shot and abandoned in an Ames field in late January, a black Labrador mix nicknamed Good Boy by his rescuers is thriving in his new adopted home, where he was renamed Buddy and will live out his final days with Joanna Muggli. “I’m just giving him the best life that he could have,” she said.
🐕 This is Mack, the rescue dog of reader Teresa M.
“He celebrated his 16th birthday on Jan. 16,” she wrote. “He still enjoys his twice-daily walks. Such a sweet boy!”
