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Update to Carver Park
Check out the results of this renovation to Carver Park! The Winterset Parks & Recreation Department posted this…
THANK YOU to our Parks crew in coordination with the Street Department and Winterset Municipal Utilities for our Carver Park Renovation! Also, a huge THANK YOU goes out to Jim Nelson and Carol Liechty for collaborating on our renovation project of Carver Park! It was our goal to create a space that was more inviting for our visitors to sit down and have conversations, while also staying true to the original design. We hope to add additional information signage about George Washington Carver in the future! Thanks to the Greater Madison County Community Foundation for awarding this project grant funding!
Tonight
Optimist Fun Night
Thursday • October 26 • 6:30 – 8:30
Winterset Elementary
Children in Preschool through 3rd grade are invited to the Winterset Optimist Club’s annual Fun Night. This fall carnival takes place in the gym and lunchroom at Winterset Elementary and children can play games of chance and skill to win prizes. Each child will be given 5 free tickets when they enter the building, and can purchase additional tickets for ten cents each. The club will also be drawing tickets for door prizes that will be given away throughout the night. Generations of Winterset kids have enjoyed this tradition—don’t miss out on the fun!
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This Weekend
Reading with Rover
Saturday • October 28 • 9:00am – Noon
Winterset Public Library
Halloween Hikes
Saturday • October 28 • 5:00 – 8:00pm
Madison County Conservation
Embrace your inner Monarch as you journey from egg, to caterpillar, to chrysalis, to butterfly, hiking along the forested Pammel Park Lodge Trail! At the completion of your amazing journey, you will arrive just in time for the Day of the Dead Festival!
Our Partners in Conservation will be present at the event to offer advice on how you can help the Monarch Butterfly thrive in Madison County!
Trick-or Treating
Hayrack Rides
Campground Decorating
Face Painting
Mighty Metamorphosis Hike & Skits
Children’s Halloween Games
Costume Contest
And…..A TACO TRUCK!!!
Tickets are $5/person or $20/family.
Night of the Living Dead
Friday • October 27 • 7:00pm
Saturday • October 28 • 9:30pm
Sunday • October 29 • 2:00pm
The Iowa Theater
A disparate group of individuals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour. The pragmatic Ben (Duane Jones) does his best to control the situation, but when the reanimated bodies surround the house, the other survivors begin to panic. As any semblance of order within the group begins to dissipate, the zombies start to find ways inside—and one by one, the living humans become the prey of the deceased ones. 1968, Rated R, 1 hr 37 min
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Friday • October 27 • 9:30pm
Saturday • October 28 • 7:00pm
The Iowa Theater
Damnit, Janet! In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O’Brien). Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.” 1975, Rated R, 1 hr 38 min
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Next Week
Trick-or-Treat
Tuesday • October 31
3:30 – 5:00 around the square
5:00 – 7:00 around the town
Musical Story Time
Wednesday • November 1 • 10:00am
Winterset Public Library with
Madison County Music Co.
Babies, toddlers, preschoolers and their grown-ups are invited to join Miss Megan from Madison County Music Co. at Musical Story Time Wednesday morning. Be ready to sing, dance, rhyme and play!
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Fifty Shades of Grey
Wednesday • November 1 • 7:00pm
Way Back Wednesday at The Iowa Theater
When college senior Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic as he is rich and powerful, finds himself strangely drawn to Ana, and she to him. Though sexually inexperienced, Ana plunges headlong into an affair—and learns that Christian’s true sexual proclivities push the boundaries of pain and pleasure. 2015, Rated R, 2 hr 5 min
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The Addams Family: The Musical
Friday • November 3 • 7:00pm
Saturday • November 4 • 2:00 & 7:00
Winterset High School
Winterset High School Husky Drama will present three performances of their fall musical, The Addams Family, next weekend. Tickets are $6 and can be purchased in advance using the button below, or at the door. The crew of talented young thespians have been working hard for weeks to bring this story to life and would sure love to see a big audience for their shows!
In the kooky, upside-down world of the Addams Family, to be sad is to be happy, to feel pain is to feel joy, and death and suffering are the stuff of their dreams. Nonetheless, this quirky family still has to deal with many of the same challenges faced by any other family, and the spookiest nightmare faced by every family creates the focus Lippa, Brickman, and Elice’s musical: the Addams kids are growing up. The Addamses have lived by their unique values for hundreds of years and Gomez and Morticia, the patriarch and matriarch of the clan, would be only too happy to continue living that way. Their dark, macabre, beloved daughter Wednesday, however, is now an eighteen year-old young woman who is ready for a life of her own. She has fallen in love with Lucas Beineke, a sweet, smart boy from a normal, respectable Ohio family — the most un-Addams sounding person one could be! And to make matters worse, she has invited the Beinekes to their home for dinner. In one fateful, hilarious night, secrets are disclosed, relationships are tested, and the Addams family must face up to the one horrible thing they’ve managed to avoid for generations: change
Winterset Legion Pancake Breakfast
Saturday • November 4 • 7:00 – 11:00am
Legion Post, 221 N 1st Ave
Holy cow we’re going to eat well next weekend! Start off with pancakes at the legion (and a bake sale) which will benefit the American Legion Scholarship Fund for WHS seniors and keep reading for two more tasty outings to benefit our community.
Share your Stash Sale
Saturday • November 4 • 9:30am – 4:00pm
Iowa Quilt Museum at New Bridge Church
‘Shopping for a Cause’ is my favorite kind of shopping! Next Saturday, quilters, sewers, and other fiber enthusiasts can shop great bargains while supporting the IQM at the same time.
The museum has collected a great variety for shoppers:
- TONS of quilting cotton yardage and scrap bags
- Quilting yardage is a steal at $5 a pound (approximately 3 yards, depending on the fabric weight).
- A generous donation of fashion fabric is available for FREE WILL donation.
- Sewing patterns – 10 for just $1, representing every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s.
- Quilt kits and quilting rulers, all individually priced.
There’s something for everyone, so be sure to spread the word to ALL your friends. The sale is at New Bridge Church, 1305 W Jefferson St.
Iowa Quilt Museum members can start shopping early at 9:00 AM. Not a member? Join now: https://www.iowaquiltmuseum.org/membership/
Baked Potato Bar
Sunday • November 5 • 11:00am-2:00pm
Winterset Art Center
The Winterset Art Center will be serving up a baked potato bar with all the toppings along with salads, desserts and drinks for their fall fundraiser. All donations support the Winterset Art Center.
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Coming Soon
They Were Gassed Severely:
Charles Webber Aikins and Winterset in World War I
As part of the State Historical Society of Iowa’s ongoing Iowa History 101 webinar series, Winterset resident Scott Pate will explore the impact of chemical weapons on Iowan soldiers in World War I. His talk centers on local Captain Charles Webber Aikins and Winterset’s wartime experience. The webinar can be viewed via your phone, tablet, or computer on Thursday, November 9, from noon to 1:00 pm.
In 1917, Company A, 168th Infantry, left Des Moines, beginning their journey to the Western Front in France. Captain Aikins led this company for over a decade, comprised primarily of men from Madison County. The experiences of this company framed how Winterset and surrounding communities followed the Great War. A German gas attack on May 27, 1918, became a critical moment for Aikins, Winterset, and the American Expeditionary Force. By examining newspapers, diaries, military documents, and medical literature, it becomes possible to illuminate the story of Charles Aikins, offering an interpretation of an overlooked aspect of Winterset and Iowa history.
You can register here for this free webinar: history.iowa.gov/history/iowa-history-101-series. Pate’s session will be recorded and can be viewed later at your convenience.
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Winterset Parks & Recreation Sign-ups
Youth Basketball
This league is for 1st-6th graders and 3rd-6th graders will occasionally travel to Van Meter, Perry, and Adel. Follow the link for more information and to register! https://tinyurl.com/yktx49np
Adult Pickleball
The adult Pickleball League will play on Sundays beginning December 3rd. The deadline to register is November 26th. https://tinyurl.com/5n6udbc3
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