At the start of the year, Colleen Tendall spent days begging businesses to give her special needs students a chance to learn job skills.
She wasn t even requesting her students be paid, the Van Meter high school special education teacher said. All she wanted was a place where her students could gain practical work experience for a few hours two days a week.
For the last few years, the students in her Special Education Functional Program had been working at their school s concession stand serving coffee and hot chocolate to students using a donated Casey s cappuccino machine. They would charge students $1 for a hot drink, put the lids on the cups and learn how to manage the money.
By Emery Songer
Jan 6, 2021
There are only a couple days left in the career of Iowa broadcasting legend Van Harden and Wednesday was one of the busiest mornings he s ever had!
First, he was surprised by a group of people in Winterset for a series of special announcements:
After that, the Iowa Pork Producers came into the studio for a meal and to thank Van for what he s done for them over the years:
Just as he thought things were winding down, he got a call from Speed Herrig from Cookie s Sauces and was joined by Simon Conway and Jeff Angelo: