The following article is from the Downtown Community Alliance about the new Healthy Chef Cooking Challenge, teaming up local chefs and Hoyt Middle School students. They will be shopping for ingredients at the Downtown Farmers Market and then preparing two recipes on Saturday morning: The Downtown Farmers’ Market is teaming up with students from Hoyt Middle School … Read more »

Good luck to six students and three teachers from Des Moines Public Schools who are traveling to the Brave New Voices (BNV) spoken word poetry festival in San Francisco from July 17-21, courtesy of a grant from the United Way! BNV was created by Youth Speaks Inc. in 1998 after the inaugural Youth Speaks Teen … Read more »

2012-13 School Year Begins at Capitol View, Moulton and River Woods With the weather feeling autumnal after last week’s blistering heat wave, why not get back to school? Roughly 1,500 Des Moines kids did just that this morning at Capitol View Elementary, River Woods Elementary and Moulton Extended Learning Center, the district’s three continuous calendar … Read more »