Normally. Obviously in december you dont see a whole lot of people typically wearg dresses. But its not necessarily for style. Style. By wearing a dress s we can hopefully raise awareness of human trafficking, not only in the world but here locally. For 31 days, dress a day is supposed to spark questions in an effort to educate. Educate. This is the official dressember dress. And its been working. Working. Often the response is ive never heard of that and thats a great opvortunity for myself to share about dresseseer. Essember. People think its iowa, its a small town, a small state, its pretty safe but theres actually a lot of trafficking victims that are taken through the state of iowa. Bybyearing the dresses, theyre not only taking a stand, theyre supporting an effort already in place. All the items you see here are made by women, rescued from trafficking and they made these in the sewing center nepal. Nepal. They make is so that the women can have a choice being a trafficking victim
3 it appears a fufuraising drive for a family of seven n children in tilden, nebraska. May be linked to a murdersuicide discovered near pierce on monday. 3 the Antelope County news newspaper says donations are being accepted at the tilden bank. And online. To help the children affected by the incident. 3 neither authorities or the newspaper are releasing the names of the victims or the fafaly. 3 but they do say five of the children range in age from a 17 year old girl. To a 10 year old boy. 3 if youd like to make a donation. Weve put that information in this story on our website at siouxland news dot com. 3 3 sioux city has said its final farewell to a groundbreaking firefighter. Jeanne vakulskas jeanee vuhkulskus became siououcity fire rescscs first female firefighter in 1985 after staring her career as a nurse. She served for 22 years until died this weekend at her home in sioux city. This morning her former colleagues joined her family and friends in saying goodbye at her funeral at
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Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust, supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. The ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide, at fordfoundation. Org. The wyncote foundation. And by the frontlineby journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. And Additional Support from scott nathan and laura debonis. horns blowing erenberg touchdown listen to this crowd, theyre on fire the steelers have their key receivers in. Stallworth on the left, 82, swann,
Down to earth, incredibly nice guy. Lemm was on patrol monday near bagram afghanistan when a motorcycle laden with explosives went off in the midst of their patrol. Lemm, originally from bernard iowa, moved to nebraska and eventually new york, where he was a member of the police force for about 15 years. He was on his third and final tour overseas. Loras link, whos wife was lemms cousin, says even though they only saw him every couple of years, he left a mark on their lives. loras link, joseph lemms cousin he had the size of a when he would walk in. He was once, you had a friend forever. Link says it had been about a year and a half since they last saw couldve seen more of him. Link and his daughter shared some other great memories of lemm with me todaywell hear weve got you covered live from the th media newsroom in lemms body was brought back to the United States today and was part of a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force base. The autopsy is complete and Funeral Services are set f