A couple weeks ago, I took three little girls dress shopping. “What? Doesn’t Karen have a son?” Well, yes … this was different.  This shopping trip was in my official capacity as President of JLCR – with the Butterfly Kisses sponsored girls.  Everything about this morning rocked my world … from seeing the condition in which these beautiful girls lived, to watching their eyes light up after...

Junior League of Cedar Rapids (JLCR) members participated in a clothing drive in January called Metro Threads, which benefits students at Metro High School as they prepare to enter the workforce. The drive was one of JLCR’s Done in a Day (DIAD) projects, which are community service projects that are done one day out of every month from September through May. At the January General Membership Meeting JLCR members...