Your Clear Mortgage forecast from Jason Parkin

Rain chances will be with us this morning and again late tonight into Tuesday morning as temperatures heat up in your outlook. Our next good rain chance comes on Wednesday.

For help with preapprovals or refinancing, get in touch with Jason at parkin.mortgage

Three U.S. presidents have died on the 4th of July.
James Monroe, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson all died on the patriotic day. (Adams and Jefferson passed in 1826, and Monroe passed five years later in 1831.)

John Adams thought Independence Day should be celebrated on July 2.
He had a point, given that the Continental Congress did declare its freedom from Great Britain on July 2, 1776. However, an official document explaining this move to the public wasn't published until two days later, on July 4, 1776.

CITYVIEW announced its 2022 Best Of Des Moines readers' choices Feb.1. You can find all the results from the poll in the February issue of CITYVIEW magazine!

Best Local Insurance Agent
1. Cody Crumes - American Republic
2. Ben Buenzow - Buenzow Insurance Group
3. Blake Newton - Country Financial

Community, house hold fond memories for Hill

By Lindsey Giardino

When Joe Hill grew up in a house across the street from the nursing home in Norwalk, he was surrounded by family. His grandparents lived next door, and his uncle was just a few houses down the road.

He recalls being outside all day, riding bikes around the neighborhood and delivering the newspaper — both the morning and afternoon editions — around town with his siblings.

“It was a neat place to grow up,” Hill says.
He lived in his hometown until he married. After, Hill and his wife, Sharon, moved to Des Moines for awhile before they started having kids. That’s when they moved back to the community he loved — in 1990, to be exact.

Upon their return, the Hills built a home on E. 13th Street and lived there for nine years.

Then, one day, Sharon was on a walk and strolled by a house three doors down from the one Hill was raised in. The 1920 home was one she had admired, and Hill was convinced to purchase it.

The family moved in 20-some years ago and has lived there ever since.

From the June issue of  Norwalk  Living magazine.

Happy Birthday to these celebrities: Post Malone, Gina Lollobrigida, Geraldo Rivera, Mike Sorrentino, Andrew Zimmern, Safaree, Josh McCown

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