The small town of Storm Lake, Iowa, has changed in the last thirty years—and its inhabitants love it.

The area has gone through a major demographic shift over the last three decades, according to Storm Lake’s Public Safety Director and Police Chief Mark Prosser, and a variety of ethnic groups now call Storm Lake home. He says immigrants are embraced as having helped the town.

“We’re really proud of Storm Lake,” Prosser says. “If you look at Iowa and you look at the Midwest, many communities this size and smaller have vacant homes, vacant businesses. They’re consolidating school districts. That’s not the case in this community.”

The growth and shifting demographics brought a vibrancy to the local community that has been embraced

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