The Greater Des Moines Young Professionals Connection is hosting a clothing drive from July 25-31 to benefit the AIB College of Business Clothes Closet. The clothing drive aims to provide the Clothes Closet with young professional apparel. The hope is the clothes ensure that AIB students on a limited budget have access to appropriate attire for interviews, internships and the workplace. For a list of drop-off locations and times, go to http://ypcdsm.com/index.cfm?nodeID=14527&audienceID=1&action=display&newsID=8622.

The board of directors of MidAmerican Energy Co. has declared regular quarterly dividends on its seven series of preferred stock. The dividends are payable Sept. 1 to shareholders of record as of Aug. 6. For a list of the dividend prices for each series of preferred stock, go to http://www.midamerican.com/newsroom/aspx/newsdetails.aspx?id=498

Central College finished its 11-year fund raising campaign on June 30, and exceeded its original goal of $86 million by raising $89.4 million. The campaign was the largest fund raising effort to date by the college. “Despite the economic downturn over the past couple years, alumni, friends, faculty and staff and the greater Central College family

pushed through and catapulted us past our goal,” said David Roe, president of Central College from 1998 to 2010.

Metro Waste Authority announced that its new Curb It! recycling program that featured wheeled carts resulted in the largest single-year increase in recycling in the 16-year history of Curb It!. There was a 3,000-ton increase in recycling for the year. A total of 26,357 tons were collected, which equates to the contents of 5,271 garbage trucks being diverted from the landfill.

Canada-based Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. raised its offer for Casey’s General Stores Inc. by 75 cents per share in an effort to persuade shareholders to back its takeover, Bloomberg reported. The new offer is $36.75 per share. Casey’s advised shareholders today not to take action until it evaluated the new offer. The new offer would still value Casey’s at about $1.9 billion, Couche-Tard told Bloomberg today. On June 8, Casey’s board of directors rejected Couche-Tard’s $36 per share tender offer.