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Spring Blooming with New Hope
The road ahead for Jasper and Newton counties will be paved with promise and maintained with perseverance. Our newest initiative, something we’re calling Driving Home, is a monumental effort in planning, engineering, and laying down that road ahead. Driving Home is a...
Celebrating 30 Years: The Newton Foundation
Jasper Newton Foundation is celebrating 30 YEARS! Together we have grown, changed and developed communities in Jasper & Newton counties and have big ideas for what’s ahead. The support of community members, volunteers and donors helped grow Jasper Newton...
Celebrating 30 Years
Join the Jasper Newton Foundation as they celebrate 30 Years in 2021. Look forward to an anniversary blog series, recapping the last 30 years in your community.
Submit Your Event in 3 Easy Steps!
Click on "Submit Event" on Community Calendar Fill out all necessary information along with an image if available Once completed hit the "Submit Event" button and JNF will proofread it & approve your event!
A Welcome Distraction
By Alyssa NybergPhoto credit: Shari McCollough Thank goodness for the Smith’s longspur. It’s a welcome distraction… a mission, a challenge, a journey to temporarily take my mind and heart off the concern and anxiety that I have been feeling about COVID-19. This little...
Power of Giving: Celebrating Prairie Arts Council & Bonnie Zimmer!
PAC was founded in 1993 and has promoted visual, literary, and performing arts in Jasper and Newton Counties. For over 25 years I have focused most of my volunteerism on the Prairie Arts Council, being one of the founding members. As a lifelong artist and art...
DeMotte Women’s Circle of Giving
Article written by Judy Crawford The DeMotte Women’s Circle of Giving, founded in 2003, was the first circle of giving established in Jasper County. Its mission statement is: To improve the town of DeMotte and make it a better place to live,...
Former One-Room School Buildings are Disappearing
Article by Judy Kanne, Jasper County Historical Society"Sourced from the Rensselaer Republican Newspaper"
Kankakee Sands Bison are Changing It Up
By Alyssa Nyberg My drive to work involves one-stop sign and a herd of bison. It hasn’t always been that way… My commute used to involve one stop sign and several agricultural fields. That all started to change in 1996, when The Nature Conservancy began planting 8,000...
The Shrewd Shrew Article written by Alyssa Nyberg Last week I had the misfortune of catching a northern short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda) in a mousetrap at the Kankakee Sands Seed Barn. As uncomfortable as I felt for ending the life of that little shrew, I had...
