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Home, Garden & Lifestyle show starts Friday

Event will be at fairgrounds

-Messenger file photo
Scott Devereaux demonstrates a Bemer for Karolee Dorsey, of Fort Dodge, during The Messenger Home, Garden & Lifestyle Show in 2020.

It is time to get moving on projects around the house and the upcoming Home, Garden & Lifestyle show sponsored by The Messenger will provide plenty of ideas for doing just that.

The show will be Friday and Saturday at a new location: the Webster County Fairgrounds at 22770 Old Highway 169 south of Fort Dodge.

Show hours are 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.

Admission is free, courtesy of Hy-Vee.

Nearly 50 vendors, ranging from contractors to companies selling backyard grills, will be at the show.

Food will be available from Feedshed Catering of Moorland.

During the show, canned food items will be collected for the Lord’s Cupboard food pantry in Fort Dodge.

Also at the show, the Fort Dodge Noon Sertoma Club will be offering a potential solution to anyone in need of some more storage space. The club will conduct a raffle for an outdoor storage shed built by Fort Dodge Correctional Facility inmates who are taking carpentry classes at the prison through Iowa Central Community College.

Raffle tickets for the shed will cost $25.

The money generated by the raffle will support Backpack Buddies. That is a program of the Noon Sertoma Club that provides food to qualifying schoolchildren so that they have something nutritious to eat over the weekends. Club members and other volunteers place the food in the students’ backpacks,

Fort Dodge City Councilman Terry Moehnke, who leads Backpack Buddies, said the group is ”a little shy on the fundraising” because of the pandemic. The shed raffle, he said, will be one of the group’s major fundraisers this year.

”The need hasn’t gone away and the funding is critical,” he said.

”We’re very thankful to Iowa Central and The Messenger for helping us with this program,” Moehnke added.

People who have some building supplies they would like to get rid of can do so Friday at the show. Heartland Hope and Homes, which builds homes for families that meet its income guidelines, will have its truck at the fairgrounds that day to accept donations.

The group will accept donations of lumber, dry wall, hand and power tools, paint that is less than seven years old, window frames, light fixtures, sinks, hardware, furniture except beds and bed frames, electrical supplies, appliances and gardening supplies.

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