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DES MOINES — Former Gov. Terry Branstad will be honored next month with the Iowa Award, the state’s highest citizen honor, Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Monday.

Reynolds — who once served as Branstad’s lieutenant governor — will present the award to Branstad during a ceremony Dec. 11 at the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines, Reynolds’ office said.

Granted roughly every five years, the Iowa Award was created by the Iowa Centennial Memorial Foundation, which was established in 1948 by Gov. Robert Blue and the Iowa Legislature.

The foundation’s goal was to “encourage and recognize the outstanding service of Iowans in the fields of science, medicine, law, religion, social welfare, education, agriculture,

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