Author: Erin Jordan

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Iowa DNR ends sponsorship of disabled veterans fishing

Veterans with disabilities participate in the 2023 Veterans Casting Away Disabilities therapeutic fishing event on Lake Rathbun in Southern Iowa. This year’s event is set for May 12-19, though it will no longer have the sponsorship of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. (Photo courtesy of William Roepke) Eldon Miller, who grew up cane pole fishing as a farm boy, looks forward to the Veterans Casting Away Disabilities fishing event on Southern Iowa’s Lake Rathbun every year. Blinded by an explosion in the Vietnam War, Miller, 71, of Kalona, ​​is enjoying the week on the water, fishing and meeting other…

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