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Diaper Bank helps record number of Iowans this year, needs more donations to keep up with demand Organization asking for more donations for holiday season Associate Sara Marino hands a bag of diapers to a client Dec. 14 during drive-through hours at the Eastern Iowa Diaper Bank in Cedar Rapids. This year, the diaper bank opened up to the community and has given out more than 600,000 diapers. In 2021, it will return to a participant model serving clients of the Eastern Iowa Health Center and YPN...

Radio Iowa You are here: Home Iowa agencies see continued increase in housing issues Nine months into the pandemic and many Iowa families are still being pushed into homelessness. Waypoint Services, a Cedar Rapids-based provider, is seeing the need grow sharply among Iowans who never experienced homelessness before. Housing services director J’nae Peterman says area shelters and other providers are also struggling to meet the demand for rent assistance and transitional housing. “Within a mo...

Parts of Iowa can expect a major winter storm Wednesday with strong winds and temperatures dropping. Iowans are advised to avoid driving in the storm. There are already widespread blizzard conditions especially in the northwest part of the state. The region can expect two to five inches of snow, but that’s not the most concerning part of the storm. Jeff Chapman is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He says the snow accumulation is not the most i...

“Human-to-human coronavirus transmission confirmed.” On Jan. 21, this headline and Associated Press story appeared in the bottom right-hand corner of The Daily Nonpareil’s front page. It was the first time the Nonpareil had picked up a story about an outbreak that was happening on the other side of the world. It was not the first news of the pandemic. Stories of an outbreak in China had dotted national news outlets — in print, television and digital. At the time, many of us ...