Skunk River Arts Festival The Fine Arts and Cultural Events (FACE) board announces the schedule for the upcoming Skunk River Arts Festival highlighted by Main Street Oskaloosa’s Art on the Square on Saturday, June 9. Activities are as follows: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 – Up & Coming Artist Show, 4:30 – 6:30 pm, Iowa Building, […]
Upcoming community events Relay for Life of Mahaska County is scheduled for June 2, 2012, at the City Square in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Central United Methodist Church, corner of A Ave. and N. Market is having an Ice Cream Social on Thursday June 7 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Beefburgers, hot dogs, ice cream, pie, and […]
Val@theVault Exploring the Great Houses of England Summer 2013 Highclere Castle Who didn’t get hooked on PBS’ smash hit “Downton Abbey”? And who wouldn’t want to tour the actual British site, Highclere Castle, home of the Earls of Carnarvon? Join Val@theVault and the Traveling Book Club for a ladies-only trip to England the summer of […]
Beth Howard “America’s Pie Lady” Tuesday, June 5 7 PM Book Vault Kitchen Making Piece Join us for a very special evening with author Beth Howard who will be highlighting her new book, Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie. Beth will be baking pies together with Book Vault’s Ruthi Rogers and this […]
Oskaloosa – The William Penn Women’s Golf Team is hosting a 4-Person Scramble on Saturday, July 21, 2012 at Edmundson Golf Course. The tournament will start at 9:30 am and the entry fee is $50 per player or $16 if a member at Edmundson Golf Course. Proceeds from the entry fees will go to paying […]
The Oskaloosa Middle School held their third trimester awards ceremony. 13 students achieved the Presidential Fitness Award this spring. To achieve this award they must meet the criteria for their age and gender in the Mile run, Pushups, Curl-ups( Situps), Sit & Reach flexibility test and Shuttle Run test. The following students were awarded certificates […]
Des Moines, IA- Rep. Leonard Boswell will have a member of his staff in Sigourney and Grinnell on Wednesday, May 30th for open office hours. Greg Johnson, Boswell’s District Representative in the area, will be at: Sigourney Public Library 11:00am – 12:00 Noon Drake Community Library from 1:30pm – 2:30pm Johnson will be on hand […]
Mahaska County, Iowa – Mahaska Health Partnership Hospice Services, Mahaska Hospice Auxiliary and Garland-Van Arkel-Langkamp Funeral Chapel are teaming up to present a Community Memorial Service on Wednesday, May 30 at 7 pm. The Community Memorial Service will be held at the west end of the MHP Hospice Serenity House on the north side of […]
Oskaloosa – May 23, 2012 Meghan Slay, YMCA Gymnastics Director and coach for over 20 years, has always dreamed of becoming a gym owner which offered programming that focused on the transformation of lives through gymnastics. That dream will soon become a reality thanks to the cooperative efforts of the Mahaska County YMCA and Slay’s […]
MAHASKA COUNTY – Mahaska Health Partnership recently hosted the Kindergarten classes from Oskaloosa Elementary School. The children visited Emergency Services where they sat in an ambulance and talked to a Paramedic; Radiology where they looked at X-rays and Infection Control where they practiced good hand washing. Pictured is Radiologic Technologist Nicole Keller who is using […]
