Pumpkin Dump Cake

Pumpkin Dump Cake

by Tammy McFarlen Ingredients: – 1 (15 ounce) can puree Pumpkin – 1 (10 ounce) can Evaporated Milk – 1 cup light brown sugar – 3 eggs – 3 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice – 1 box yellow cake mix – 1 cup (2 sticks) butter melted...
Protecting Your Website From Malware

Protecting Your Website From Malware

FireSpike’s “battle cry” is “Create, Protect, Promote!” The second part of that battle cry refers to our providing maintenance and security for our clients’ WordPress websites. WordPress is complex, and it is made even more so by...
Oregon Energy Fund

Oregon Energy Fund

The Oregon Energy Fund is a 30-year-old nonprofit that provides energy bill assistance to low-income Oregonians in support of household stability. Since 1989, OEF has helped almost 300,000 people pay their bills in times of crisis, ensuring that families in need don’t...
My First Jack-O-Lantern

My First Jack-O-Lantern

I lived in Cedar Rapids from 2008 to 2011, in a very “suburban” neighborhood with plenty of families. Our neighborhood was known in the area as being safe and quiet, all streets ending in cul-de-sacs. With that in mind, folks would drive from all around to take their...
Google Analytics for ALL FireSpike Clients

Google Analytics for ALL FireSpike Clients

Google Analytics is a free service that gives website owners a wide range of information about the visitors to their websites: where the visitors are, what kind of device they’re using to view the site, which other site or search engine referred them to the site, and...
Angela Celebrates 10 Years with FireSpike!

Angela Celebrates 10 Years with FireSpike!

After moving from Tampa to Cedar Rapids in 2008, I took over The ACCESSline, Iowa’s LGBT+ community newspaper. One of the best decisions I made while working with the paper was hiring Angela Geno-Stumme as Assistant Editor in 2010 When I finally made the difficult...