Eat Pancakes & Play Trivia on Saturday. Audition for a play on Sunday or Monday and see if you can figure out whodunnit before the final credits!

This Weekend

Winterset Art Center Pancake Breakfast

Saturday • February 26 • 7:00 – 11:00am
American Legion Hall

Pancakes, sausage, eggs are served up alongside music from the Benge Family and Friends at this annual fundraiser for the Winterset Art Center. Diners can also enjoy the youth art exhibit. Serving from 7:00 am to 11:00 am. Free will donation will be accepted.

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Trivia Night

Saturday • February 26th • 6:45pm
St. Joseph Catholic Church, 1026 N 8th Ave

This isn’t your average trivia night! And all proceeds will support the Winterset Inclusive Playground Fund.

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Auditions for The Odd Couple (female version)

Sunday • February 27 • 6:00pm OR Monday • February 28 • 7:00pm
The Winterset Stage

Unger and Madison are at it again! Florence Unger and Olive Madison, that is, in Neil Simon’s hilarious contemporary comic classic: the female version of The Odd Couple.

The Winterset Stage will produce this classic story April 21st through 24th under the direction of Teddi Yaeger and YOU’RE invited to auditions which will be held on Sunday, February 27th, at 6:00pm, and Monday, February 28th, at 7:00pm, both at the Iowa Theater. Interested actors need to attend just one session, and are asked to sign up in advance at: www.TheWintersetStage.org. You won’t need to prepare anything in advance. Scripts will be provided for reading scenes during the audition.

Even though this is the ‘female version’ of the script, there are two parts for male actors and they’re really fun roles! If you’re interested in auditioning, sign up at this link to provide a little information before you arrive.

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Death on the Nile

Friday & Saturday at 7:00pm, Sunday at 2:00pm
The Iowa Theater

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot’s Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this dramatic tale of love gone wrong features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably dressed travelers and enough wicked twists and turns to leave audiences guessing until the final, shocking denouement. PG-13, 2hr 14min

Next Week

Tuesday at Twelve Webinar: Indeed they are Dangerous Women

Tuesday • March 1 • Noon
Iowa Quilt Museum Online

Meet four more quilt artists from our “Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage” exhibit during this online gallery walk with the Iowa Quilt Museum. Keep learning about these “dangerous women” and their roles in women’s suffrage along with the journey of each artist in depicting their topics.

Guests include:

• Laura Wasilowski, whose quilt features Jane Addams using hand-dyed fabrics and pictorial images. 
• Jayne Gaskins focuses on the legislative highway using digital art and appliquéd pieces.
• Sandra Sider, co-curator of the exhibit, highlights Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s speech at the 1866 Eleventh National Woman’s Rights Convention.
• Alice Beasley makes a big impact using portraits to show black civil rights activist and journalist Ida B. Wells, who refused to walk behind the white suffragists in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. in 1913.Hear directly from the artists on their creative process and more about these “dangerous women”

This is a free program, but registration is required in advance:

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Fat Tuesday (Shrove Tuesday) Pancake Dinner

Tuesday • March 1 • 5:00 – 7:00pm
St. Paul Lutheran Church

If you don’t get your fill of pancakes on Tuesday—and, really, can one ever have too many pancakes?—dine again on breakfast fare Tuesday night in celebration of Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday. Shrove Tuesday is the day preceding the season of Lent in the Christian church. The association between pancakes and Shrove Tuesday appears to be related to using up butter, eggs, and sugar, foods from which one might fast during Lent.

But even if you’re not the ‘fasting for Lent’ type of person, pancakes are delicious and your free-will donation at this dining event will support the St. Paul Furniture ministry that helps to provide home furnishings for those in need in our community.

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Grafting Biology & Techniques Webinar

Wednesday • March 2 • 6:00-7:00pm
Winterset Public Library

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Wayne’s World

Wednesday • March 2 • 7:00pm
The Iowa Theater

This iconic 1990s flick is a big screen spin-off of the “Saturday Night Live” skit. Rob Lowe plays a producer that wants to take the public access “Wayne’s World” to the world of commercial television. Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey) battle to save their show and Wayne’s girlfriend from Lowe. 1992, R, 1hr 34 min

Oscar Nominated Film Screening

Thursday • March 3rd • 1:00pm
Winterset Public Library

Starting February 17, the library will be showing an Oscar nominated film every Thursday at 1:00 pm until the Academy Awards telecast on March 27. These are free programs and no registration is required.

March 3rd – Luca (G)
March 10th – Cruella (PG-13)
March 17th – The Mitchells vs. the Machines (PG)
March 24th – King Richard (PG-13)

Planning Ahead

Babysitting Basics

Monday • March 15th • 9:00am – 3:00pm
Iowa State Extension

Space is limited to the first fifteen registrations for this Babysitting Basics class for youth in 5th through 7th grades. The course will cover child development, age-appropriate activities, safety and basic first aid, nutrition and food choices, caring for infants and children, parent expectations, and the ‘babysitting’ business. The cost is $25 and lunch and snack are provided. Sign up using the button below.

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Mother & Son Dance

Friday • March 25 • 7:00 – 8:30pm
Winterset High School Commons

Any boys ages 4-10(ish) are invited to bring a special lady in his life to dance the night away and support the Winterset Student Council. The StuCo is raising money to enroll students in leadership conferences and camps that provide students with a strong base of leadership skills to prepare them for tackling future leadership roles.

Registration is $15 per couple and $5 for each additional boy for this semi-dressy event. A wrist corsage can also be purchased for an extra $10. There will be refreshments, a photo booth, door prizes, contests, and, of course, music and dancing!

Driveway Painting Fundraiser

April 23rd & 24th
Place your order by March 31st
WHS Vocal Boosters

The Winterset High School Vocal Boosters are offering you an opportunity to show your school spirit! Sign up to have your driveway painted with 3′ x 3′ Husky or ‘W’ insignia for $50. For an additional $25, you can add on a fine arts or athletics image which will appear beside the Husky or ‘W’.

You can find an order form in this week’s Shopper or print one at the link below. Mail it in with a check by March 31st, and then April 23rd or 24th, your driveway will be visited by school spirit elves!

If you have any questions, email huskyvoicesboosters@gmail.com

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Tee Ball Registration

Deadline May 1st

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Easter Egg Hunt

Saturday • April 16th • 11:00am

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