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WCA offers art on the farm

Waterloo, IA The Waterloo Center for the Arts is partnering with Hansen's Farm Fresh Dairy and Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area to offer a summer "Art on the Farm" camp for ages 6 to 8 and 9 to 13. Each week campers will learn about a new farm fact, tour Hansen's Farm, help ...

Gardening series to be held in Grundy Center

Grundy County Extension and Outreach & Kling Memorial Library are joining together to offer gardening classes for all gardening enthusiasts!Participants are encouraged to come to all three sessions or just pick the ones of interest, no obligation! ISU Extension & Outreach ...

Grundy Center Farmer’s Market entertainment

The 2016 Grundy Center Farmers Market Advisory Committee is excited to announce some exciting entertainment and wonderful vendors for the 2016 Grundy Center Farmers Market!The Grundy Center Farmers Market will remain Thursday evenings with a slightly extended time period of 4:30 7:00 p.m. and ...

Unclaimed properties in Grundy County

DES MOINES, Iowa - State Treasurer Michael L. Fitzgerald has a list that may add money to your pocket. Treasurer Fitzgerald is releasing the top 10 unclaimed properties in Grundy county. "I encourage all Iowans to check their local newspaper for the Great Iowa Treasure Hunt list that will be ...

4H youth summer assistant hired

Grundy County Extension & Outreach is excited to announce the hiring of our 2016 4-H & Youth Summer Assistant, Becca Steckelberg.Steckelberg is a native of Conrad and grew up at the Grundy County Fair in 4-H. In May Becca completed her freshman year at Iowa State University ...

Traffic safety

The Grundy County Sheriff's Office will participate in a project with the Governor's Traffic Safety Bureau (GTSB) which is promoting traffic safety in Grundy County.Sheriff officers conducted a seatbelt survey this past week in the rural areas and a seatbelt usage rate of 94% was recorded for ...

Tama County Fair queen applications available

Miss Aubree Beenken, 2015 Tama County Fair Queen has been representing Tama County at fair activities, parades and other activities throughout the year. Her reign will soon be coming to an end.Aubree, daughter of Marc & Angie Beenken of Buckingham has participated in a wide variety of ...

Grundy County Fair & Grundy County Farm Bureau holding cooking contest

GRUNDY COUNTY-An outdoor cooking contest designed to promote Iowa meat is being planned by the Grundy County Farm Bureau and the Grundy County Fair.Farm Bureau's cookout contest is open to any Iowa resident age 13 years or older. Farm Bureau or affiliated company employees are not ...

Gladbrook Women’s Club

Following our Annual Senior Citizens Dinner, President Shirley Young called the meeting to order with 11 members present. After being read, the Secretary’s report was accepted as presented. The Treasurer’s report, with all our annual donations paid, was also accepted as presented. ...

Poppy Day

Members of the Gladbrook Jr. Auxiliary distributed poppies in Gladbrook and Lincoln on Wed., May 11th. This is their favorite project of the year as all the proceeds go to help veterans and their families. Eight Juniors and six adults collected $425. The Juniors were thrilled to pick out a ...