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Community Calendar
Let us know your non-profit
organization’s coming events!
Call
319-935-3027
email to
news@thewinthropnews.com or send it to PO Box 9,
Winthrop IA 50682.
Winthrop C & C Meetings,
third Monday of each month at Winthrop City Hall, 6
PM. Everyone invited.
Parent Support Group –
on parenting a challenging child. Regular meetings,
family activities. For information, Michelle
319-721-4310 or mkopf7@netins.net
Second Thursday of month
- Free Blood Pressure
Screenings,
K&S Quasky Mart, Quasqueton, 2-3:30 PM.
Third Tuesday of month
- Buchanan Co. Tobacco Free Coalition meeting,
10 AM, Buchanan County Volunteer Co-op, 309 First
Street East, Independence. Public is welcome to
attend. Call 319/334-4218 for information.
Third Monday of month -
Buchanan Co. Democrats monthly meetings,
at 7 PM at the Buchanan County Senior Center in
Independence.
Third Thursday of month
- Foto Friends meet at Prairie Hills Assisted
Living, Independence, 7 PM. Dues-free, just
for fun, open to anyone interested in photography.
Mondays at 6 PM -
Gamblers Anonymous Meetings.
Location: Room 135, Linn Hall, Kirkwood Campus,
Cedar Rapids. For more information 888-771-6771.
Through April 30
- Independence Area Food Pantry Feinstein
Challenge. All cash, check, pledges, food
items donated March 1 to April 30 will be reported
to the Feinstein Foundation which will donate back
to the pantry. Food items will be valued to $1 per
item or pound. Please donate to the Independence
Food Pantry!
March 11
-
Buchanan County Fair Association meeting, at Buchanan County 4-H Building at 7 PM. The public is welcome to
attend.
March 11 and March 15 -
East Buchanan (Winthrop) Preschool Round-Up and Open
House, 5-7 PM at the Library Media Center.
Register your child (ages 3, 4, 5) in preschool,
receive information about the programs, and tour
classrooms in the new addition. Call 319-935-3660 to
register or for more information.
March 12 & 19
- St. Patrick Church Winthrop Friday Fish Fry,
4:30 - 7:30 PM. Fish, potato, vegetable, coleslaw,
roll, drink, dessert. Adults $8, under age 12 $4.
For carryouts call 319-935-3871.
March 12 - DEADLINE for
Women Celebrating Diversity scholarship applications.
Contact Barbara Sabin at 319-334-6178 (home) or at
work 319-935-3367 for more information.
March 13 - Quasqueton
Emergency Services annual Pancake Supper,
4:30-7 PM, at Quasky School House. Everyone is
welcome!
March 13
-
Compost Workshop, 1 PM,
Fontana Interpretive Center, outside Hazleton.
Create worm-composting bin and learn how to care for
it. All materials provided, including worms. To
pre-register, and for information on fees, call
319-636-2617.
March 14 – Immaculate Conception Church (Masonville)
Chicken Dinner, 11 AM-2 PM. Serving
cafeteria style, adults $6.50 (in advance), $7 (at
the door), children (5-12) $4, children age 4 and
under-free and carry outs $7.50. There will also be
a raffle and silent auction.
March 14
- Aurora Legion and Auxiliary Pancake Breakfast.
Serving from 8 AM-12:30 PM, adults $6.00, 5-8 years
old $3.00, preschool and under free. Pancakes,
sausage, ham, scrambled eggs, donut holes,
applesauce, juice, milk, coffee at American Legion
Hall in Aurora.
March 15 - Relay For Life committee meeting, 5:30
PM, Security State Bank, Independence. Come to back
door, downstairs. New members always welcome!
March 15 - March Diabetes Update, “Get 2 for 1,”
effort spent gardening pays back in fresh produce
and calorie burning exercise.” The meeting is free.
Guest speaker Joe Olsen, who will talk about the
benefits of the local farmer’s market. From 5-6 PM,
BCHC in Meeting Room A in Independence. Call
319-332-0986 for information.
March 16
– Dad’s Belgian Waffle Supper, all you can
eat, Buchanan County Senior Center, Independence.
Sponsored by the Independence Lions Club. Adults $7,
children 5-10 $5 and children under 5, free.
Waffles, sausages, flavored syrups, dessert and
drink. Proceeds to Lions Club International
Foundation, Haitian Relief and other humanitarian
projects.
March 16 - Iowa History
Alive book discussion/program
at Independence Public Library, 7 PM. Roy Behrens
will facilitate discussion on “Frank Lloyd Wright…or
Was He Wrong?” For information, visit
www.indylibrary.org, call 334-2470, or Facebook.
March 19
– Winthrop Community Blood Drive, 2-6 PM,
at Church of Christ United Fellowship Hall. For
appointments, please call Marilyn at 319-935-3681.
March 20
- Buchanan Co. Dairy Producers annual Dairy Banquet
at Independence Senior Center, 7:30 PM. $10 for
adults and ages 6 and under are free. The 2009
Buchanan Co. Dairy Princess Courtney Goedken will
crown the new princess and distinguished couple,
high herd and most improved herd will also be
acknowledged. For information: Kay Manson 938-2661,
Janet McLaren 334-4457, Jr Gallup 334-2257, John
Sweeney 334-3019 or Gary Hermsen 924-2509.
March 29 – 16th Annual
Women Celebrating Diversity Scholarship Dinner.
Heartland Acres Agribition Center, Independence.
Social time 6 PM, dinner 6:30. Tickets at Connie’s
Hallmark and Laree’s in Independence.
April 1 - Meeting of
the Catholic Daughters of the
Americas,
Court #495, St. John the Evangelist Church,
Independence, and St. Patrick, Winthrop at
Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality Center,
Hiawatha. The group will tour the facility and have
lunch. Prairiewoods is a facility established in
1996 as a ministry of the Franciscan Sisters of
Perpetual Adoration of La Crosse WI. The vision for
this center with its 30 acres of prairie and 40
acres of woodlands, according to its founders, is
the integration of spirituality and ecology. The
group will leave St. John parking lot in
Independence at 10:30 AM April 1, transportation
provided. Reservations must be made by March 28 with
Regent Betty Greenwood at 319-334-4763 (messages may
be left on the machine.) There is a $10 charge for
luncheon and this fee is noncancellable after March
28.
April 8 – Buchanan
County D.A.R.E Graduation, Independence Middle
School at 9:30 AM.
April 18 - Independence Senior Center (400 5th Ave. NE)
will have their Pancake Breakfast, Sunday,
April 18 from 8 AM -12:30 PM, free-will donation.
Grab bags will be available.
April 21 - Assembly of Operation Family Packs,
Independence,
1:15 PM, First Presbyterian Church Fellowship Room.
If the only meals some children eat are at school,
what do they eat when they’re not in school? In
partnership with the Northeast Iowa Food Bank,
Operation Family Pack-Independence sends
children-in-need home from school with shelf-stable,
kid-friendly, healthy food that can be easily
prepared and consumed when parents are working and
can’t prepare meals, or when there isn’t enough food
at home for children to eat. Join in preparing bags
of food for the kids! This is a great community
service project for groups or individuals. For more
information, contact Jon Holland, 319-361-3126 or
jholland@indytel.com
April 24 – APRI and IaPBA Dog Show, at American
Legion Hall in Quasqueton. Registration begins 8 AM,
shows begin at 9 AM. For more information visit
www.APRI.com |
On
Feb. 27, the EB speech students participated in the district
individual speech event at Maquoketa Valley High School.
Earning scores of I were Charlie Smith and Alissa Lewis
(pictured here.) The I score qualified these two members
for the state competition to be held March 13 at Starmont.
