National Skillet Throw Annual Championship

Friday • 6/14 • 6:00 – 8:30pm
Saturday • 6/15 • 10:00am til done
Macksburg Park

Head to Macksburg for the National Skillet Throw Annual Championship next weekend. Friday night there will be $1 hot dogs and $2 hamburgers available in the park during Skillet Throw Practice. Saturday morning starts off with a 10:00am parade & 10:30am Pedal Tractor Pull. Sign up & check in begins at 11am with the Championship starting at 12 noon. The street will be rocking after 5:30 as the event concludes with a Street Dance. Bring your own lawn chairs and enjoy your time at Macksburg park with a pie auction, meat raffle drawing, kids activities and a vendor/flea market.

Madison County Farmers Market

Saturday • 6/15 • 8:00 am – Noon
Winterset Square

Fresh, juicy, strawberries are making their appearance at the farmers market – go and get ’em before they are gone.

Fishing, Prizes, Food & Fun

Saturday • 6/15 • 8:00 am – Noon
Madison County Sportsman Club

Kids ages 2 through 16 are invited to join the Madison County Sportsman Club & Winterset Optimists as they host a morning of outdoor fun. There will be fishing, prizes, food and fun a 1/4 mile north of Cedar Covered Bridge. They can’t control the catching, but the FUN is guaranteed!

Music at the Winery

Saturday • 6/15 • 7:00 – 10:00pm,  Food served 6:30 – 8:30pm
Covered Bridges Winery

The Sons of Gladys Kravitz will be playing this Saturday at Covered Bridges Winery. They play the very best classic rock music from the 1960’s to the present, as well as some country and contemporary Irish music. Their aim is to play popular songs from the classic rock era that are not played by other local bands, so that the audience can have a uniquely enjoyable listening and dancing experience. There will be a $5 cover and Hy-Vee Catering will be serving prime rib or chicken sandwich and 2 sides from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Weather permitting, music will be outside so bring a lawn chair as seating is limited.

Levitt AMP Music Series @ Earlham City Park

Sunday • 6/16 • 6:00 pm
William Elliott Whitmore

Join the Earlham “Chicks with Checks” as they present William Elliott Whitmore in the Earlham City Park on Sunday. Bring a blanket or lawn chair and your own food or beverages if you’d like. There will be a food vendor at the park if you prefer to go that route.

Coming up at the Iowa Theater

Release & Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Something very cool is happening at The Iowa this week: the drama Release is premiering on their screen, giving Madison County a chance to see this story before it has been seen anywhere else in Iowa (or the midwest!). When a deadly and mysterious airborne disease spreads from remote areas of the world to the United States, the country is thrust into chaos and panic as it strikes the quiet outskirts of a large American city.  Not rated / 1 hr 20 min

Release was featured in this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and you can see a trailer for it at their website.

A great film is one that can take even the most jaded of moviegoers and fill them with a sense of anticipation, wonder and sheer exhilaration. A truly great film—the kind that one can call a classic without the slightest hesitation—is one that still has the power to do that to viewers decades after it was originally released. Steven Spielberg’s 1977 masterpiece “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” is the epitome of a truly great film. Whether this is your first time or the movie is an old favorite, check it out on Wednesday.