Webster County Conservation to hold Tuesday at Ten Hike Tuesday
Webster County Conservation is holding a Tuesday at Ten Hike at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Bob Hay Memorial Conservation Area, Avenue O West, Fort Dodge.
2025 Support Our Veterans Ride is Sunday in Lu Verne
LU VERNE — The 2025 Support Our Veterans Ride is Sunday at The Handlebar, Lu Verne. Sign-in is 9 to 10:45 a.m. Registration is $25 per vehicle, all types of vehicles are welcome. Breakfast burritos will be available at sign-in. The ride will leave Lu Verne at 11 a.m. Stops include Johnny’s at Wesley, Corwith Legion at Corwith, The Gold Bar in Goldfield, Blue Moose in Renwick, Flipside in Lu Verne and returning to The Handlebar, which will offer a nacho and baked potato bar following the ride. Lee Klett and his band will perform from 4 to 8 p.m. There will be silent and live auctions ...
Wiegert Prairie Fall Fest returns Aug. 24
PALMER — Plans are underway for the 41st Wiegert Prairie Fall Fest. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Aug. 24 at the Wiegert Prairie Farmstead, 27061 615th St, Palmer. Don’t miss this chance to visit an original 1900 farmstead and virgin prairie and experience firsthand our family and farming heritage. The fall fest is an annual celebration of the Wiegert family and a way of life now largely passed but still a deep part of our heritage here in rural northwest Iowa. The Wiegert farm is an historic pioneer era farmstead that never had electricity or running water and ...
August community blood drives continue on Friday
Community blood centers, like LifeServe Blood Center, collect approximately 60 percent of the nation’s blood supply. Annually, it takes thousands of generous volunteer donors to support local hospital patients through blood donation. Unfortunately, of the total U.S. population, 62 percent are eligible to donate, but only 3 percent donate blood each year. Often, people assume they are ineligible to donate blood because there are multiple myths surrounding blood donation. For example: MYTH: I can’t donate blood because I’m on medication. FACT: Most medications do not disqualify ...
Boxholm Trinity Lutheran ice cream social is Sunday
BOXHOLM — Trinity Lutheran Church, Boxholm, is holding an ice cream social from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at the church. Beef burgers, chips, beverages, coleslaw, desserts and homemade ice cream will be served for a freewill donation. Everyone is welcome.
Catholic Daughters of the Americas to meet Thursday, RSVP requested
Catholic Daughters of the Americas Court 216 will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at Corpus Christi Center, 405 N. Eighth St. Mass will begin at 6 p.m. followed by dinner, speaker and meeting. RSVP meal reservations by noon Tuesday to Kitty Nilles at 515-206-5496.