To celebrate the great chefs and restaurants that making eating out such a delight, Younkers hosts Great Chefs Week. Each day, a different area chef comes into our Younkers demo kitchen and gives cooking tips, recipe suggestions, and brings samples of their most popular dishes to share with Younkers customers. This event gives our customers a chance to try some new culinary treats or have another try of an old favorite. Your local Younkers Home Department will be hosting classes taught by local experts that could make your holidays and every day more special. This year, a breast cancer will be newly diagnosed every three minutes, and a woman will die from breast cancer every 13 minutes.
Breast cancer touches almost every American family in some way.
In partnership with the John Stoddard Cancer Center and the Mercy Hospital Cancer Center, Younkers is proud to host an annual celebration in honor of those women who have fought the battle with breast cancer. A preamble to the local Susan G. Komen Foundation's Race for the Cure, the event welcomes and celebrates survivors and their families. Local dignitaries and staff from area hospitals and cancer centers are also invited to honor these brave women and be rejuvenated by nationally recognized keynote speakers. Teachers are nominated by students or parents in one of our 20 Iowa locations, or via the ISEA website. The teacher chosen from among all entries is honored at an annual banquet held in the historic Younkers Tea Room in Des Moines, Iowa.