Tonight
Winterset Fieldhouse Public Information Meeting
Thursday • February 15 • 6:00pm
Winterset Public Library
In 2021, the city completed a Needs Assessment, followed by creating a Parks, Recreation and Trails Master Plan in 2022. One of the priorities identified during both of those projects was the need for indoor recreational space. From that feedback, the city developed a team to assist us in the development of a Business Plan for indoor space for our city and county residents.
Next Thursday, that plan will be shared with the community at two public meetings. Prior to the attending one those meetings, you are encouraged you to read the Winterset Fieldhouse Business Plan http://tinyurl.com/4394xnhz and to review the Needs Assessment http://tinyurl.com/mrxfb2ey and Parks, Recreation & Trails Master Plan http://tinyurl.com/yuzbhhzd
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Winterset Area Soccer Club
Winterset Little League
Music Together Classes
Starting on February 19th
Madison County Music Co.
Two sessions of “Music Together” classes will start next week for children ages 1-4. These early-childhood musical experiences are designed for children to attend with a parent or caregiver and are full of musical play, rhyme, song and dance!
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This Weekend
Friday Fish Fry
Fridays • February 16 – March 22 • 5:30 – 7:00
St. Joseph Catholic Church
The Winterset Knights of Columbus will one again offer a weekly ‘Fish Fry’ dinner each Friday during lent (which started yesterday). This is an all-you-can-eat dinner offering Alaskan baked or fried fish, baked or fried potatoes, cole slaw, dinner role, baked beans and dessert. The kids menu includes cheese pizza, fruit cup and macaroni and cheese. The meal is a free will offering.
Madison County Wedding Showcase
Sunday • February 18 • 12:00 – 4:00
The Winterset Livery
If you have plans to say “I do” in the near future, visit the Madison County Wedding Showcase to learn about all of the local businesses who can help make your dream wedding a reality.
Introduction to Leather Crafting
Sundays • February 18 – March 10 • 2:00 – 4:00pm
Winterset Art Center
Instructor Mark Davis is ready to lead students (age 13+) through learning the basic skills of leather crafting. Save your seat at the table. Register: https://winterset-art-center.square.site/s/shop
Argylle
February 16 & 17 • 7:00pm, February 18 • 2:00pm
The Iowa Theater
Will also screen February 23-25
Reclusive author Elly Conway writes best-selling espionage novels about a secret agent named Argylle who’s on a mission to unravel a global spy syndicate. However, when the plots of her books start to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, the line between fiction and reality begin to blur. Rated PG-13, 2 hr 19 min
Argylle will play a second weekend, February 23-25.
Other People’s Children
Sunday • February 18 • 5:30pm
Sunday Movie Club at The Iowa Theater
This month’s Sunday Movie Club offering premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, where it competed for the festival’s Golden Lion award. The film’s main character, Rachel, is a schoolteacher, unmarried, with a happy, full life and many friends. When she falls in love with a man who has a four-year-old daughter, she grows close to Leila and begins to long for a child of her own.
The Iowa Theater’s Sunday Movie Club offers once-a-month screenings of thought-provoking films. Membership costs $75 per year for the 12-movie series, but anyone can attend by purchasing a ticket for $8. Doors open at 5:00; the movie starts at 5:30. The total running time (TRT) for “Other People’s Children” is one hour, and forty-three minutes. The film is in French, with English subtitles.
Sunday Movie Club screenings include a brief, optional discussion following the credit roll. This Sunday’s discussion will be facilitated by theater manager Scott Smith and board member Marianne Fons.
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Next Week
Brokeback Mountain
Wednesday • February 21 • 7:00pm
The Iowa Theater
The Iowa Theater is featuring a month of epic love stories on Wednesdays, and showtimes are back to 7:00.
In 1963, rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and ranch hand Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) are hired by rancher Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid) as sheep herders in Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, Jack makes a drunken pass at Ennis that is eventually reciprocated. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart, Alma (Michelle Williams), and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider (Anne Hathaway), the two men keep up their tortured and sporadic affair over the course of 20 years. 2005, R, 2 hr 14 min
Grant Wood: Prairie Rebel
Thursday • February 22 • 6:00pm
Winterset Public Library
The Winterset Public Library will present a very unique program next Thursday evening highlighting one of Iowa’s most famous citizens, Grant Wood, who created one of the most famous paintings of all time, American Gothic.
In this 45-minute, one-man show, Grant Wood chats with the audience as if talking to an old friend across the backyard fence, or maybe at his home at Five Turner Alley in Cedar Rapids. He tells us about his life and how he changed the art world forever with his work. It is the man behind American Gothic that we hear and see, and the story of how he took the moments, the memories and the people of our state to show the whole world the specialness of this Iowa. After the presentation, the audience is encouraged to ask questions about Grant Wood and his life.
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Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser
benefiting the Winterset Art Center
Saturday • February 24 • 7:00 – 11:00am
American Legion Hall, 221 N 1st Ave
The Winterset Art Center will hold their annual pancake breakfast next Saturday at the Legion Hall. In addition to a hearty breakfast, you can enjoy student art work and music from the Benge Family Band. Free Will Donations are accepted.
Mother-Son NERF War
Saturday • February 24
Winterset Parks & Recreation
It’s almost time for the return of the biggest Nerf War in Winterset! WPRD’s annual Mother-Son Nerf War will be held on Saturday, February 24th this year. Registration is open until February 18th.
Love Birds: a bluebird nesting box workshop
Saturday • February 24 • 4:00 – 6:00pm
PepperHarrow Farm with
Madison County Conservation
Experience a cozy outing with your ‘love bird’ at PepperHarrow Flower Farm. Participants will hear about the conservation story of Eastern Bluebirds while constructing their own bluebird nesting box. Tools and instruction provided along with refreshments from Petite Café.
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