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🌱 How a Norwalk family is navigating Iowa’s childhood cancer crisis.
Also, don't miss Forever Fit on the Norwalk Patch calendar
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In today's newsletter:
- How a Norwalk family is navigating Iowa's childhood cancer crisis.
- Why a Norwalk retiree is sacrificing comfort just to stay insured.
Also on today's calendar: Maker Wednesday and 5 more events.
Today's riddle: What do you call a one-legged Big Foot? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Tuesday: A stray afternoon t-storm, with a high of 75 and low of 65 degrees.
- Wednesday: Humid with heavy rain, temps: high: 71, low: 64.
- Thursday: Periods of rain and a t-storm, with a high of 67 and low of 49 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• 'Invisible in plain sight.' Childhood cancer upends Iowa families (amestrib.com) — A Norwalk family's harrowing drive through a blizzard to treat their 4-year-old's leukemia anchors a deep look at how childhood cancer reshapes lives across Iowa. You'll learn how distance to treatment, long-term side effects, and limited support systems strain families, and how groups like Children's Cancer Connection and new state research funding aim to help. 
• Healthcare workers face soaring health insurance costs (crossroadstoday.com) — A retired healthcare executive in Norwalk is cutting groceries, delaying doctor visits, and keeping her home uncomfortably warm just to afford health insurance after pandemic-era subsidies expired. Her story is one of several showing how rising premiums are pushing even healthcare workers nationwide to drop coverage, self-treat, or take financial risks to stay insured.
📸 Around Norwalk
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Norwalk
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★ Featured events ★
- Forever Fit →
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10:00 am
Wednesday September 30
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Other local events
- Maker Wednesday →
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2:00 pm - Babytime →
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9:30 am - Music and Movement →
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10:30 am - Teen Takeover Special: Frankenstuffies →
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3:30 pm - Scribbles Walk →
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8:30 am - Forever Fit →
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10:00 am - Tween Special: Frankenstuffies →
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3:45 pm
Wednesday September 30
Thursday October 1
Saturday October 3
Monday October 5
📣 Norwalk Shout Outs!
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🗓 Events Nearby
- SHELTER AND STORM event at the Iowa Environmental Council's Annual Conference with Tamara Dean →
Olmsted Center, Drake University, 2875 University Ave, Des Moines
8:30 am - Judge Less, Listen More - CJPS →
Polk County Bar Association, 625 East Court Avenue, Des Moines
8:30 am - Regroup →
Valley Church, 4343 Fuller Rd, West Des Moines
10:00 am - Extended Summer Evenings: Last of the Season →
Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden, 909 Robert D. Ray Dr, Des Moines
10:00 am
Tuesday September 29
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Michael Foods Group, Inc. posted a job opening for Safety Assistant in Norwalk. Apply here.
- Pizza Hut posted a job opening for Shift Leader in Norwalk. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Norwalk here.
🗞 Nearby News
West Des Moines
- This $850K Urbandale lake home is a mid-century modern time capsule (desmoinesregister.com)
- Iowa nonprofit provides free and confidential help for an unplanned pregnancy (kcci.com)
- What Sen. Grassley said about dying in office (kcrg.com)
Des Moines
- 3 people face charges after separate overnight pursuits in Des Moines (weareiowa.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Hop Squatch! (Thank you Terri R. for sending it in!)
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