Iowa Great Lakes Awarded 2022 Healthy Hometown Through Wellmark
Iowa Great Lakes Awarded 2022 Healthy Hometown Through Wellmark
February 18, 2022Steve Schwaller
(Spirit Lake)– The Iowa Great Lakes Region is the 2022 recipient of the Healthy Hometown award through Wellmark. The announcement was made Thursday during the Healthiest State Initiative’s annual awards ceremony that was held virtually. Katy Burke of Dickinson County Public Health says they were thrilled with the announcement. She says there was a lot that went into the award…
“Here in Dickinson county we had eight projects that were submitted in our application so. A lot of work with Dickinson County Trails, trailhead, all of those improvements. The Iowa Great Lakes Imagine projects looking at things like the mini queen and the many murals, beautification projects that make it a joy to be outside. The Dickinson County Hunger Coalition, working on those drive through food rescue projects, and then also the Dickinson County Community Gardens working with the master gardeners as well as Camp Foster as well as to increase awareness of farming and gardening with youngsters to donate thousands of pounds of produce to Upper Des Moines. So really seeing the community working together to make this a great place to live.”
The Iowa Great Lakes will also be receiving $5,000 in funding as part of the award…
“So with the support of all of our community partners that prize money will be dedicated towards the Dickinson County Hunger Coalition, going towards increasing equitable access to nutritious food, supporting some of our food rescue efforts and having an overall reduction in hunger in Dickinson county.”
