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Gladbrook Public Library

**Important: Venue Change** Since the Festival of Trees will be Upstairs in the City Centre on Monday, Dec 19th, Our Children’s Christmas Party will be CHANGING LOCATION to the GLADBROOK MEMORIAL BUILDING. Times will remain the same: 6:00 – 8:00 pm. We will be having some Special Guest ...

Gladbrook Women’s Club-Holiday Happenings Recipes

Apple Orchard Punch Ingredients 1 32 fluid ounce bottle of apple juice, chilled 1 1/2 liters ginger ale 1 12 fluid ounce can frozen cranberry juice concentrate 1 apple 1 cup orange juice Directions In a large punch bowl, combine apple juice, cranberry juice concentrate and orange juice. ...

Peace Church Christmas Program

By Margaret Thomsen The Sunday School Children of Peace United Church of Christ presented their Christmas Program during the Sunday morning worship. The children pictured include: in back Emma McClintoch, Madisyn Eggers, Adelyn Sienknecht and Kloie Hendricks. In the middle are: Brayton Davis, ...

mber Senior Citizens Dinner

The Gladbrook Auxiliary hosted the Senior Citizens Dinner on Dec. 9th in the City Center. Forty seniors enjoyed viewing the Festival of Trees. Sue Koster played carols before the turkey dinner. The Jr. Auxiliary made gingerbread men, houses and reindeer for the table favors. For the program ...

Gladbrook Public Library

This Past Week… Snowflakes in the Air … Fun is Everywhere! Especially when you Visit your Favorite Local Library in Gladbrook! Monday was an Awesome Craft Day, as we used Old Book Pages to Create Christmas Masterpieces! Some chose to make Book “Trees” and “Snowmen” from Entire ...

Modern Homemakers

Garwin Modern Homemakers met at the home of Judy Beane November 15, a week later than usually scheduled. The meeting was called to order at 1:30 p.m. and the minutes of the past meeting were deferred. Nine members answered the roll call by Verna Stamp telling what their family plans were for ...

Peace Church carolers at Westbrook Acres

Peace Church members brought a little Christmas cheer to the Westbrook residents when they caroled there on Sun., Dec. 4th. The residents throughly enjoyed singing along as well. June Bessman played the piano. After Westbrook, the group caroled at the Independent Living and to other seniors ...

Tama County Community Foundation grant applications due Jan. 15

The deadline to submit grant applications to the Tama County Community Foundation 2017 grant cycle is midnight (CST) January 15, 2017. The online grant application and grant guidelines may be found on the Community Foundation's website at www.tamaccf.org.Grants are awarded to nonprofit and ...

German club to meet Dec. 10

The Ostfriesen Heritage Society will meet at 2:00 PM at the Wellsburg Public Library on December 10, 2016.We will be entertained by a group of AGWSR Middle School music students. Their teacher, Amanda Lee, said the students are busy preparing for their December 5 concert, and they will be ...

Cedar Valley Hospice holds Tree of Love ceremonies

Cedar Valley Hospice invites you to recognize a loved one during this meaningful time of the year as part of the 2016 Cedar Valley Hospice Tree of Love fundraiser. Honor or remember someone special with a contribution and you will receive a unique ornament or bookmark depending on your level of ...