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Community Impact Report 2025

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2025 in Pictures

chickens in snow
sheep in barn
woman watering garden
woman ringing dinner bell
horses running in field
kids with easter baskets watching blacksmith
children w easter bunnies
toddler picking up eggs
girl in bunny ears in sack race
girl petting horse
woman stirring fire in hearth
horses pulling 2 men in wagon
people about to cut ribbon
ribbon just cut
toddler working quilt puzzle
pig w 2 piglets
campers in creek
campers in garden
campers baking in historic kitchen
campers grooming horses
muddy campers in front of barn
camper posing as circus strongman
campers at birthday party
campers dressed up for tea party
decoration day procession
re-enactment of pioneer wedding
women w suffrage banner
horses pulling wagon for july 4th
medicine show players
people pulling rope
man an boy pitching hay into loft
men harvesting hay
cow in field
boy feeding pigs
piglet escaping fence
woman cooking in cabin
visitors looking at thresher
volunteers picking apples
children searching for pennies in hay
woman making ice cream
woman cooking with apples for visitors in cabin
woman in period dress at edge of cornfield
woman grinding corn for visitors
judges tasting food at cabin
woman demonstrating cornhusk dolls
indigenous man drumming with visitors
students touring collections
closeup of student rolling our dough
blacksmith at forge
woman in mourning dress next to casket
volunteers with gazebo decorated as witch
horses pulling people in wagon
28 hween
runners at farm
runners in creek
kids run
santa and mrs claus
visitors making cookies in historic kitchen

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Mary and Dale Andringa
Bayer Crop Science
Cole-Belin Education Foundation
Coons Foundation
Corteva Agriscience
EMC Insurance
Jim Cownie Family Foundation
Fred Maytag Family Foundation
Iowa Economic Development Authority
Iowa Machine Shed
Lienemann Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Kemin Industries
MidAmerican Energy Company
Nelson Foundation
Polk County
Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust
R.W. and Mary Nelson
Prairie Meadows
Todd and Connie Rueter
Charles and Kathy Safris
Stephen Smith
Sukup Manufacturing Co.
City of Urbandale
Vermeer Charitable Foundation

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