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DES MOINES – Don Ortman knows Promise Community Health Center . The 48-year-old principal at Rock Valley Elementary School has been actively involved every step of the way since a steering committee was formed to study if there was a need to establish a community health center in northwest Iowa – a few years before Promise even opened its doors in July 2008 in downtown Sioux Center. He has been on the Promise board ever since. For his longtime, outstanding contributions to Promise, Ortman was awarded the 2016 Carl Kulczyk Memorial Award by the Iowa Primary Care Association on Tuesday during its annual conference in Des Moines. The award was established in recognition of Kulczyk’s contributions to the Iowa PCA and the community health field prior to his death in 2008. Don Ortman, who has served as a Promise Community Health Center board member during its entire history, was awarded Iowa Primary Care Association's Carl Kulczyk Memorial Award for 2016 on Tuesday, Oct. 18, during its...

ALTON – The food would have ended up in the landfill. Instead, Rod Hofmeyer of rural Alton discovered a way to provide that good food to hundreds – even thousands – of people throughout northwest Iowa. It all started by him personally delivering small quantities of food from the former Advance Brands plant in Orange City to families more than a decade ago, but it has blossomed into a rapidly-growing ministry – Zestos – that provides food, clothing and other necessities, and housing to people who need it. Jayne and Rod Hofmeyer of rural Alton have been consumed with a passion of feeding the hungry and reaching out to people in need in northwest Iowa, establishing the Zestos ministry. For their selfless service, they have been selected as the 2016 Addink Community Service Award honorees and will be presented the honor at Promise Community Health Center's eighth annual "An Evening of Promise" on Thursday, Nov. 3, at Terrace V...

SIOUX CENTER – Hey, Dordt College students, faculty and staff! The community has been given its chance to participate in the pink #DCsis2sis selfie challenge for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Now, it’s your chance. The campus challenge will work slightly different. You are asked to wear pink on campus for Pink Out Days on Oct. 12, 19 and 26. Then, post selfies of yourself wearing pink those days on Facebook – using the #DCsis2sis hashtag – to raise awareness about breast cancer. By doing so, you will be entered into a drawing to win a gift basket of Dordt memorabilia from the Dordt College Bookstore. Check out how you can gain extra entries into the drawing in the expanded description of the guidelines in the flyer to the right or at this link . The drawing will be conducted at intermission of Dordt’s varsity volleyball game against Dakota Wesleyan on Wednesday, Oct 26. That is Dordt volleyball's official Pink Out evening conducted in partnership with Promise Community Health Cen...

SIOUX CENTER, IOWA – Magician David Hira instantly fell in love with magic and theater when he saw his first live magician as a child at a car show at McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago. That stirred in him the desire to begin performing his own shows when he was in junior high while growing in the suburbs of Chicago. Magician David Hira will dazzle and inspire the crowd at Promise Community Health Center's eighth annual "An Evening of Promise" on Thursday, Nov. 3, at Terrace View Event Center in Sioux Center. As he developed as a performer and magician, he was inspired by watching master magicians Mark Wilson and David Copper on television. “I began to see that their magic was more than simple entertainment. It could be a way of inspiring people that anything is possible,” Hira said. “I love to show people how they have the same ability in their lives as I do as a magician. We all can strive to find ways to do things instead of reasons we can’t.” He’s still do...