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Second Monday: Hamburg City Council meeting, 1201 Main St., 6 p.m.

Second Monday: Hamburg City Council meeting, 1201 Main St., 6 p.m.

Forty miles south of Council Bluffs on the Missouri River is the 3,500-plus-acre Copeland Bend Wildlife Area, an expansive mix of grasslands and high-quality wetlands constructed after the extensive flooding in 2011, when the big river was closed to boating, and levees up and down the Big Muddy were breached.After the waters receded, the U.S.

The application window is opening July 12 for the 2024 Fall Master Gardener training cohort, which will be offered in 44 counties or extension regions by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.Counties offering Fall training include: Adair, Boone, Butler, Cass, Cerro Gordo, Clayton, Dallas, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Hamilton, Hardin, Harrison, Iowa, Jasper, Johnson, Keokuk, Linn, Lyon, Madison, Marshall, Mills, Mitchell, Monona, Monroe, Muscatine, O’Brien, Osceola, Polk, Pottawattamie, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Scott, Sioux, Story, Tama, Union, Webster, Winneshiek, Woodbury and Worth.Iowans wishing to become Master Gardener volunteers choose a county to complete training through, participate in online learning modules and attend at least four in-person training sessions organized by the county office.

Second Monday: Hamburg City Council meeting, 1201 Main St., 6 p.m.