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  • Kevin Coble of Dallas Center transforms into Ivan, Servant of Chaos for the Des Moines Renaissance Faire.

  • Clyde Thomas, owner of Booneville Antiques is having his business rebuilt after it burned to the ground. A selection of lanterns were among the few antiques salvaged from the fire, including this one on his lap. Thomas plans to restore as many of the lanterns as he can for the store's planned re-opening. "I'll probably be pushing up daisies before I can finish them all," he said.

  • Joel Klobnak, 24, hugs his daughter, Grace, 3, outside his Greenfield home. He lost his leg and developed PTSD during a tour of Iraq with the Marines in 2006. He's now caught in bureaucratic red tape that has forced him to wait two years to find out if he qualifies for full disability. His frustrations are part of a national scandal over delays in the VA's system for determining who deserves disability pay for their wartime injuries and mental issues. Klobnak is trying to support a family of four on the $1,500 per month the VA is sending him for partial disability while his appeal is pending.

  • Jason Stone, right, and Emily Harris designed Davis Brown Law Firm's Start-Up Launchpad, a website that offers legal documents for flat fees, and is meant to be a specific resource for startup businesses.

  • Abby Stewart, tattoo artist at Lasting Impressions in Des Moines, Iowa.

  • Pella native Ronald Rietveld has devoted his life to being a President Lincoln historian and is a history professor at California State, Fullerton. His personal collection of historic documents chronicling the life and death of President Lincoln is now on display in Pella's historic Scholte House.

  • Andy Shaffer monitors daily stock market trends while working from his Des Moines home. He recently left his job as an IT specialist for Principal Financial to work on his own from home.

  • Ann Klein, freelance writer and editor.

  • J. Barry Griswell, former Chairman and CEO of the Principal Financial Group and the current president of the Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines.

  • Lois Reichert greets some of her goats at Reichert's Dairy Air, her farm near Knoxville, Iowa. Reichert makes Robiola there- an Italian-style goat cheese- she the only U.S. cheesemaker producing it.

  • Dr. Emily Heaton is an Assistant Professor of Agronomy focusing on the biomass crop production and physiology at Iowa State University. While pursuing her doctorate in Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois, she pioneered research comparing the biomass production of Miscanthus and switchgrass in the United States, research that indicated Miscanthus could produce 250% more ethanol than corn, without requiring additional land.

  • Cheryl Cook of Des Moines sheds a tear while recounting the horror of Hurricane Katrina five years ago. "It was like the world was coming to an end," said Cook, who was trapped in the attic of her New Orleans home for days before being rescued from flood waters that had enveloped her house.

  • Dr. Eugene Takle, professor of atmospheric science at Iowa State University, has been involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, considered the premier authority on global warming.

  • Drake All-American defensive end Dain Taylor will lead the Bulldogs into the 2010 season-opener against Lehigh at Drake Stadium.

  • Judge Robert Hanson in the Polk County Courthouse, Des Moines, Iowa.

  • Jonathan Wilson, 52, takes daily walks on the campus of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Knoxville. Wilson came to the VA in Knoxville in 1988 for treatment of his mental illness and has been an outpatient there for the last 14 years. The VA will be closing its inpatient care at the Knoxville campus in November. Wilson says he is sad that veterans will no longer be able to benefit from inpatient care at Knoxville, which years ago enabled him to get the treatment he needed to live independently today.

  • Colleen Leinen of West Des Moines, who has a longtime fear of heights, has decided to face her fear and rappel off the 25-story downtown Financial Building on September 22 as part of a Special Olympics fundraiser.

  • Bill Stowe, Des Moines Public Works director, dumps a handfull of some of the 12,000 tons of salt in storage at the Des Moines salt storage facility. The City of Des Moines has a total of 14,000 tons of salt in storage heading into this fall, 10 times as much as last year.

  • John Papiboune, in his restaurant, House of Chen, in Ames. He says accepting Christ into his life helped him turn around troubles from his past and find success in his family and business life.

  • George Buck, 92, of Des Moines is a World War II veteran who fought at the Battle of the Bulge.

  • Sioux Falls Spitfire forward Bebe Jones, a native of Liberia, has stayed in South Dakota due to the outbreak of civil war in his homeland.

  • John Taylor III of Des Moines ties a pair of sleigh bells into his running shoes in preparation for a run in Des Moines. For about the past 15 years, Taylor, an avid marathoner, has donned the bells and joined a Christmas morning running group of about 20 friends. They get up before daybreak Christmas morning and jog through neighborhood streets south of Grand Avenue in Des Moines. They wear bells, run as a group, and hope that kids think they are Santa Claus.

  • Gerald LeBlanc, a tireless advocate for the maintenance and repair of veterans' headstones, kneels with a row of aging Worls War I grave markers at Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines, Iowa.

  • New Iowa State offensive coordinator Courtney Messingham will work closely with Cyclone quarterbacks Steele Jantz (2) and Jared Barnett (7) to devise a potent offense. Iowa State football media day at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames on August 2, 2012. (Christopher Gannon/The Register)