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SIOUX CENTER – Vanessa Salcedo wants to be as helpful as possible as people walk through the front doors of Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center. Vanessa Salcedo enjoys helping people in her new role as a receptionist at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center. As a new receptionist for Promise, she is one of the first persons who patients see. “I hope to be another helpful smile as patients walk in the door and make them feel welcome,” she said. Vanessa, who is bilingual in English and Spanish, grew up in Orange City and attended MOC-Floyd Valley School District through the 10th grade. She graduated from Penn Foster Online High School in 2016. She worked at Mi Lupita Bar & Grill in Sioux Center for four and a half years before assuming her role at Promise. She was interested in learning a new position and doing something different than her past job experiences, particularly a job that involves computers. “I felt like I could do a good job in this position,” she

SIOUX CENTER – Hundreds of children throughout northwest Iowa will get books in their hands, thanks to Sioux Center Christian School students. For the third year, students at the school collected books for Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center in connection with Literacy Week. Sioux Center Christian School first-graders announce how many books that they collected for Promise Community Health Center during an all-school celebration assembly on Friday afternoon. It also was Pajama/Comfort Day at the school. An estimated 508 books were donated to Promise during a culminating, all-school celebration assembly on Friday. The students also collected $75 in donations so that Promise can purchase about 35 more books in Spanish. They also donated $75 to the Tesfa Foundation for books for children in Ethiopia. The students were excited about the project. “The best part was getting books for people who need them,” said McKartley Van Vugt, a first-grader. The project started two years a