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Lutheran Services in Iowa Anniversary

WVIK Staff

An organization devoted to helping Iowa children and their families is celebrating a major milestone. Lutheran Services in Iowa was founded 150 years ago (1864).

Today in Davenport the agency's Scott County office held a ribbon cutting as part of a statewide anniversary observance. Site manager, Penny Ploog, says LSI is one of Iowa's largest human services organizations. 
   

The Davenport office has a staff of 47, and currently serves about 11-hundred children. 

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More than 50% of staff work on early childhood programs.

The agency now employs more than 12-hundred people across Iowa, and is always looking for more volunteers. 

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.