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Toledo Farmers Market

The Toledo Farmers Market is over for the season. But this market manager is still thinking and talking "farmers market". On Thursday, Nov, 12, 2015, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Golden Girls monthly potluck. The potluck was delicious with ham balls, a potato, parsnip, and sweet potato ...

What’s Happening at the Wieting?

On Saturday, December 5th at 5 p.m. Dolores Harris will direct a contata titled "Sing and Rejoice" at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Tama. Chorus members are from the community. Accompanist will be Dolores and Josh Grimes.Following the program a meal will be offered. A free will offering will be ...

Toledo Farmers Market

Market Report for October 30, 2015Another year has closed for the Toledo Farmers Market. It was a gorgeous night, a little crisp, but a beautiful night to end the Toledo Farmers Market. Caryn was there with plenty of kettle corn, snack mixes, dehydrated apple slices and jams and jellies. Chuck ...

What’s Happening at the Wieting

Cameron McCoy works for Iowa Public Television as a writer, producer and a director.As a special project he is making a documentary about old theatres and opera houses in Iowa.The idea is how do you save these businesses and after you save them how do you help them continue?He figures it will ...

We salute our veterans

On Wednesday, November 11 is Veteran's Day. We take time to "officially" honor all of our Armed Service Veterans. To you Veterans, we owe a debt of gratitude because you were willing to serve this great country. Not only to serve but to give freely of yourselves on behalf of the United States ...

Toledo Farmers Market

Market Report for Oct. 30, 2015Another year has closed for the Toledo Farmers Market. It was a gorgeous night, a little crisp, but a beautiful night to end the Toledo Farmers Market. Caryn was there with plenty of kettle corn, snack mixes, dehydrated apple slices and jams and jellies. Chuck and ...

Phobias

This Saturday, we come to Halloween. A simple holiday in which we try to scare the daylights, (or other stuff) out of you. The scarier the better. I was thinking of going as Donald Trump my self. Deb will be Hillary and we will be going as your next President & Vice President, or ...

Idiosyncrasies

A couple of weeks ago, I did a column on "idioms." It went over so well that I decided to stay with letter "I." So today we're talking about idiosyncrasies which according to the dictionary is "a characteristic or mannerism that is particular or unique to an individual." I mentioned this to ...

Toledo Farmers Market

Market Report for October 16, 2015There are two more weeks of the Toledo Farmers Market. This Toledo Farmers Market was a cool one. There is still plenty to purchase before the season is over. Vernon and Wilma arrived with eggs and more eggs. Caryn was there with her assortment of popcorn, ...

What’s happening at the Wieting

I'm sorry, I made a mistake by telling you you could still buy the package deal for the Fine Arts Series. I didn't read all of my directions about this. You had to buy them by the day of the first concert. Sorry about that!They do have a special option so that you can support the fine arts ...