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SIOUX CENTER – A few adjectives will come to mind as The Chase fills the room with live jazz music during “An Evening of Promise.” The Chase will perform a collection of jazz tunes during Promise Community Health Center's ninth annual "An Evening of Promise" Celebration and Fundraiser on Thursday, Nov. 2, at Terrace View Event Center in Sioux Center. Smooth, melodic, soulful. The band will entertain the audience with the pleasing background music during the the social time as people arrive and the dinner hour of Promise Community Health Center’s ninth annual celebration and fundraiser on Thursday, Nov. 2, at Terrace View Event Center in Sioux Center. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Michel Gomes, who plays bass, said The Chase, formerly known as AK-Squared, gets its name from “continually chasing after new styles of music and different sources of inspiration.” “We are very excited to play at this event and look forward to being able to play for a new audience,” Gomes said. “...

by Derrick Vander Waal SIOUX CENTER – The way Barbara Top of Sioux Center views it, her purpose in life is to serve. And she has a passion for reaching out to people who society may view as “underdogs.” Her perspective is the same whether she is serving at some distant location such as Rehoboth Christian School in New Mexico, Mississippi Christian Family Center, Guatemala or Romania or right here in northwest Iowa at Hope Food Pantry, Sioux Center Community Unity Meal or West Sioux Elementary School in Hawarden. Barbara Top has been selected as the Addink Community Service Award honoree for 2017. She will be presented the honor during Promise Community Health Center's ninth annual "An Evening of Promise" Celebration and Fundraiser on Thursday, Nov. 2, at Terrace View Event Center in Sioux Center. “ I’m on earth to obey and serve my God,” Top said. “These are where I have a little bit of knowledge or talent, and I can use what God has given me. My motto is to obey and to s...

by Derrick Vander Waal SIOUX CENTER – Relief. Happiness. Anxiousness. Nancy Dykstra was experiencing a mix of emotions when Promise Community Health Center – then known as Greater Sioux Community Health Center – opened its doors for the first time in July 2008 in Sioux Center. Nancy Dykstra, executive director for Promise Community Health Center of Sioux Center, receives the Carl Kulczyk Memorial Award on Tuesday, Oct. 17, during the Iowa  Primary Care Association's annual conference in Des Moines. She is joined on the stage by Iowa PCA CEO Ted Boesen, her nominators and Kulczyk's family. The day was culmination of years of planning by a group of community stakeholders who desired to bring accessible, affordable health care to all people. The previous 120 days had been a flurry of high-pressure activity: final planning, policy development, hiring of staff and the remodeling of the former bowling alley building. Dykstra, the founding executive director for Promise, had been an ...

SIOUX CENTER – Promise Community Health Center will take a walk down memory lane for its ninth annual “An Evening of Promise” Celebration and Fundraiser . Promise Community Health Center is planning its ninth annual "An Evening of Promise" Celebration and Fundraiser for Thursday, Nov. 2, at Terrace View Event Center in Sioux Center. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m., and the event will start at 6 p.m. The annual celebration is slated for 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, at Terrace View Event Center in Sioux Center. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Tickets will be on sale through Wednesday, Oct. 25 . “Everyone who attends will have a wonderful time,” said Derrick Vander Waal, public relations officer for Promise Community Health Center. “We will reflect on and celebrate the continued growth in Promise’s services to the community and will look ahead to where we’re going in the future. At the same time, the event is an opportunity for people to get away for an evening of wonderful food, fun an...