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• Something Creative Is Taking Shape: Ankeny Art Center Unveils Plans for New Home (dmcityview.com) — Ankeny residents could soon see a brand-new, nearly 10,000‑square‑foot Ankeny Art Center built in Uptown at 315 Cherry Street, doubling the nonprofit's current space. The proposed facility would add classrooms, pottery studios, expanded galleries, a community room, and outdoor art areas, helping relieve packed classes and significantly expanding arts education and community programming close to the Ankeny Market & Pavilion and High Trestle Trail.
• Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them (mercurynews.com) — Ankeny readers will recognize Lt. Col. Tim Halbur, photographed at home showing scars and his Purple Heart, as one of several soldiers describing how the military's medical system struggled after an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait. The investigation details delayed diagnoses, documentation errors, and confusing care pathways from Kuwait to Germany, Fort Hood, and Walter Reed, raising questions about how future wounded troops will be treated.
• Exclusive: Soldiers and Gold Star families press Army leadership after deadly Iranian drone strike (dallasnews.com) — An Ankeny Army reservist, Lt. Col. Tim Halbur, is central to a detailed look at how commanders handled intelligence and safety before a deadly Iranian drone strike in Kuwait that killed six soldiers and wounded dozens. Halbur describes devastating arm injuries that changed his daily life with his kids, while soldiers and Gold Star families question why vulnerable Port Shuaiba was chosen and whether medical planning and leadership decisions failed them.
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