Join gardeners from all over the country for a weekend of seeds, stories, and great food.

Students will graduate from the three-day seed school with the confidence to grow, harvest, store, and save seeds, engage with their communities through seed libraries, seed swaps, and gardens, and discuss the importance of preserving crop diversity.

This annual event draws seed savers, gardeners, orchardists, and scholars from all around the country. The workshop is full of practical knowledge, hands-on activities, and plenty of time in the garden. All students will receive a copy of The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving.

Please register at seedsavers.org.

This will be a knit-a-long. It’s has two colors or a dozen – it’s up to you! This project will be a tutorial in short rows, every other row is short rows.  It’s a wonderful pattern to use up leftover fingering yarns, meet other knitters and learn a new technique.  Other stitches used are the cast on, knitting in garter stitch, and bind off.  A completed shawl is available to see at the Blue Heron Knittery.

Materials needed:  Butterfly Shawl Pattern by Narinja (available on Ravelry or the Blue Heron Knittery), yarn, needles, markers, tapestry needle.  (Note: all materials bought at the Blue Heron Knittery for this class are 10% off!)

The Larrabee Family often held picnics and teas on their lawn at Montauk, so we are continuing that tradition with our annual community picnic. Come enjoy and evening of good food, live music, lawn games, and tours of the house. If you have never visited us before, this is a great chance to see the historic home and grounds.

Please bring your favorite dish to share, place settings, and a lawn chair.

Lanesboro Arts presents “Reflections”, a photography exhibit by Rhea Pappas of underwater pictures. The exhibit opens with an artist reception on Saturday, August 18, 2018, from 6-8 p.m., and runs through October 18, 2018. The reception will include wine and hors d’oeuvres, as well as live music. Always free and open to the public, the Lanesboro Arts Gallery is open seven days a week.

Rhea Pappas is a 31 year old, female photographer working out of the Twin Cities. Her work mainly focuses in emotion, relief, and womanhood within water. Growing up in Golden Valley, Minnesota and spending most her life sailing, traveling, and exploring the world with her family has brought this love and focus in water as a form of expression. Her earlier twenties brought some chaos to her life with post traumatic stress, depression, memory loss, and a cervical cancer scare that brought her urge to photograph a sense of relief, calmness, and inner strength unavoidable. Photographing this way gave her the feelings she desired and missed in her own life and was a silent cry for the calmness and inner peace within her photographs. She photographed the world she desired to live in.

“The water was always a safe place that calmed me,” Pappas shares. “I know I’m not the only one who dreams of a summer haze, where nothing mattered but the weightless relief of Minnesota’s cool waters. It’s something I want to recall and share with others.”

Since she was a small child, Pappas grew up sailing with her father throughout all of the Great Lakes and even journeyed from Florida up the Atlantic coastline. When she was 16, her dad would let her take complete control of the boat when he needed to rest for the night. Pappas realizes, “This was when I became an adult. It was a moment of empowerment.”

Later in life, when she was deciding between Marine Biology or Photography, because of her sailing experience, she told herself, “anything I put my mind to, I could handle.” She has since become an accomplished photographer with exhibitions in France, New York, Vermont and the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. She has future aspirations of taking photos and exhibiting on the coasts. Pappas’s work captures a sense of liberation and escape from reality through underwater photography of women.

The body of work to be showcased at Lanesboro Arts in “Reflections” is about exploring natural bodies of water and playing with their innate attributes as home, safety, and womenly. “Photographing this collection was a different process than all of my previous exhibitions since I did not shoot in an artificial body of water and did not light it,” Pappas remarked. “The purpose for me was to draw from my memories of enjoying the lakes in Minnesota and getting out of Minnesota’s hot summer sun.”

For Pappas, coming up with the show title followed “the place I am in, in life.” She adds that, “I find myself daydreaming of my childhood and past. I’m romantically fascinated and in love with the water, it creates a dream-like nostalgia that brings me comfort, joy, and ease.”

“My love for water runs deep in my soul,” Pappas exclaims. “When I have people look at my art, I want them to experience something. Not quite cinematic, but I want there to be an experience, a narrative, an enlightenment, even possibly something that inspires them to look at something or feel something different. What art is, is simple. It is what the viewer thinks it is.”

Pappas is excited to exhibit her work in Lanesboro at the Lanesboro Arts Gallery. “It’s very exciting to be a part of a statewide artistic community in Minnesota and share our love for the arts and our home.”

This exhibit is sponsored by Commonweal Theatre and made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. For more information visit www.lanesboroarts.org, call 507-467-2446 or email gallery@lanesboroarts.org. Handicapped accessible and free to the public, the exhibition gallery is located at 103 Parkway Avenue North in Lanesboro

It’s been too long! Summer is short. But we’ve found a good date for a Foot-Notes dance at the Highlandville Schoolhouse. Come and see the improvements that have been made, with the help of so many of y’all. If you are new to town, or just visiting, you are in for some Norwegian American fun, music and dancing. Just remember to bring your water bottle and get directions beforehand. (It’s not far from Decorah.) Cell phones don’t work in the little town time forgot. Directions at www.footnotes.dance.

Northeast Iowa Area Agency on Aging (NEI3A) facilitates a free monthly caregiver support group in the executive boardroom of the Aase Haugen Nursing Home on the 3^nd Monday of every month at 10:00 am. The next one hour meeting will take place on August 20, 2018 at 10 am. Any caregiver of an elderly or disabled person is welcomed to attend. Please join us for coffee and fellowship. If interested in the meeting and need more information, please contact Kelly Kuennen, Family Caregiver Specialist, at 563-277-6024.

The Winneshiek Energy District welcomes Carmen Finken from the University of Northern Iowa’s Center for Energy and Environmental Education to the monthly Energy Breakfast program on August 21. Carmen oversees Sustainable Schools AmeriCorps, a new resource and catalyst that is helping Iowa school districts to build a more energized and sustainable future.

Sustainable Schools AmeriCorps (SSA) works to reduce district-wide energy costs and assist teachers and staff in implementing environmental project-based learning initiatives. We’re excited to learn about the first year of SSA initiatives. The program supports AmeriCorps members serving as Sustainability Coordinators for five school districts: Waverly-Shell Rock, Dubuque Community, Holy Family Catholic Schools, Davis County, and South Tama County.

T-Bock’s Sports Bar and Grill on Tuesday, August 21st from 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM.

**Those wishing to eat breakfast should register by Thursday, August 16th.**

Stop by to learn about the opportunities available with Sodexo at Luther College!

Dining Services Office

Luther College

Dahl Centennial Union

Lower Level

Decorah, Iowa

Dragonfly Books is pleased to welcome Chicago-based author Rebecca Makkai back to Decorah with her new novel The Great Believers, a story of friendship and redemption during the carnage of the AIDs epidemic. Rebecca Makkai will share her stories, talk about The Great Believers, and sign books on Tuesday, August 21 at 7:00 pm at Dragonfly Books.

Everyone is invited to join Dragonfly Books for this free author talk. If you find that you can’t make it to the event but would still like to purchase one of Makkai’s books, just give Dragonfly Books a call at 563-382-4275. One of their staff will be glad to reserve a book and have it autographed for you.

This event is sponsored by Dragonfly Books at 112 W. Water St., Decorah and is free and open to the public. To learn more about this and other events at Dragonfly Books, please visit www.dragonflybooks.com, or contact us at events@dragonflybooks.com or 563-382-4275.

The Real Colors personality instrument is presented in a fast, fun, interactive format where participants can learn how to quickly identify the four temperaments (Blue, Gold, Green or Orange).

This 3-hour workshop provides an opportunity for people to examine who they are and how they relate to their associates in the workplace. The Real Colors program is a methodology for helping people understand human behavior; allowing them to recognize and value the differences in others. This knowledge provides valuable insight into what is most important to them, why they may react to situations differently than others, how to communicate effectively, and much more, at home and in the work place. Most importantly, Real Colors is easy to incorporate into all areas of daily life.

The next Real Colors workshop will take place from 9:30-12:45 at the IowaWORKS Center located at 312 Winnebago St. in Decorah. Real Colors is offered monthly on a recurring basis.

This workshop is open to any adult who wishes to attend. Advance registration is required. Email amy.chicos@iwd.iowa.gov or call 563-379-9638. There is no cost to registered participants.

Many colleges, businesses, nonprofits, and government entities utilize Real Colors including: Kirkwood Community College, Arizona State, Concordia University, US Bank, Illinois DHS, City of Virginia Beach, Arizona Dept. of Corrections, the 17^th Judicial District of Colorado, United Way of Central Iowa, & Community Action of Minneapolis.

For more information about Real Colors go to their website: realcolors.org

Now that we have learned to identify many backyard herbs, how do we go about properly harvesting them? What part of the plant do we use? In this session with Clinical Herbalist, Bonnie Kreckow, we’ll learn how to dry and properly store your herbs. Some herbs can last up to 10 years if prepared properly! Bonnie will also cover the medicinal values of culinary herbs. Come discover new reasons to rekindle your love for Rosemary, Sage, and many more!

This is a lecture and demonstration-style class. Cost is $15 for Co-op Member/Owners, $18 for community members. Call 563-382-4666, or register online at http://oneotacoop.com/education-events/ to reserve your seat.

They’re playing Nashville, New York City, Hard Rock Cafe in Boston….and Decorah! Thrilled to announce that KDEC FM 100.5 and The Courtyard & Cellar have teamed up to bring Seafoam Green to Decorah on their US Tour! Produced by Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes, Dave O’Grady and Muireann were originally scheduled to play at McCaffrey’s, but they were delayed with visa issues. So now we get treated to their music on a Wednesday night. So join us, won’t you?! $5 cover to see this Irish duo on their US Tour? That’s a sweet deal…and we hope you’ll help us make them feel welcome!
Sponsored by FM 100.5 KDEC and The Courtyard and Cellar.

Vicky Reicks’ son, Adam Samec, committed suicide in 2001 when he was 20 years old. After his death, she discovered, through his many writings and art pieces, that he’d taken his life because of the years of abuse he suffered silently through. Although Adam never clearly named his abuser, Vicky feels certain the local parish priest was the one who violated her son. Silent Anguish: The Adam Samec Story is a tribute to Adam and all that he suffered. It is the hope that his writings and art work will foster understanding for families who have been victims of clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse and bring awareness to this horrific crime.

Vicky will also have books available for purchase.

Please join us!

NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group is a free, peer-led support group for adults living with mental illness. You will gain insight from hearing the challenges and successes of others, and the groups are led by NAMI-trained facilitators who’ve been there.

NAMI’s Support Groups are unique because they follow a structured model to ensure you and others in the group have an opportunity to be heard and to get what you need.

By sharing your experiences in a safe and confidential setting, you gain hope and develop relationships. The group encourages empathy, productive discussion and a sense of community.

Blood Drive Friday, August 24, 12 pm to 6 pm

Stone Ridge Community Church

1111 Montgomery St, Decorah

For an appointment call 1-800-RED-Cross (1-800-733-2767) or visit redcrossblood.org.  Appointments preferred.

You can save up to 15 minutes when you donate blood by using RapidPass!  Visit redcrossblood.org/RapidPass for more information.

Join Amber Seitz of Karst Adventures as we kick off our 2018 Moonlight Float Series. Enjoy the Upper Iowa River under the full moon with an experienced river guide. Shuttle will leave OFF the Driftless at 8:30pm & return around Midnight. All essential paddling gear & transportation will be provided. Cost is $35 per person. For more details or to reserve a spot visit www.karstadventures.com or Call Amber at 701-609-0590. Space is limited.  

*Must have prior kayaking experience. BYOB

Dates: 6/29 7/28 7/29 8/24 8/25 8/26 9/23 9/24 9/25

Work with director Kristen Underwood of Upstart Crow Theatreworks to create a character inspired by a past resident of Decorah. Theatre games, voice, diction exercises and individual acting coaching will give you the tools you need to bring your character to life in this living history, outdoor theatre event slated for Sunday, September 23rd in beautiful Phelps Cemetery.

Adults are volunteer.  Please register with the coupon code CWalk to eliminate the cost of the class if you are an adult willing to participate.

Rehearsals will be twice a week for 4 weeks on Wednesdays and Saturdays.  August 25 – September 23.

Times to be determined

Driftless Safari will begin Memorial Day weekend! Get ready to pick up your materials starting Friday, May 25! They’ll be available all summer long at your local library.

Driftless Safari is a long-term scavenger hunt that covers all of Winneshiek County and runs from Memorial Day until Halloween! The program is free and open to anyone that loves to explore and wants to experience some of the special places of Winneshiek County. Learn more about it here: http://www.driftless-safari.org/.

This will be a knit-a-long. It’s has two colors or a dozen – it’s up to you! This project will be a tutorial in short rows, every other row is short rows.  It’s a wonderful pattern to use up leftover fingering yarns, meet other knitters and learn a new technique.  Other stitches used are the cast on, knitting in garter stitch, and bind off.  A completed shawl is available to see at the Blue Heron Knittery.

Materials needed:  Butterfly Shawl Pattern by Narinja (available on Ravelry or the Blue Heron Knittery), yarn, needles, markers, tapestry needle.  (Note: all materials bought at the Blue Heron Knittery for this class are 10% off!)

Join Amber Seitz of Karst Adventures as we kick off our 2018 Moonlight Float Series. Enjoy the Upper Iowa River under the full moon with an experienced river guide. Shuttle will leave OFF the Driftless at 8:30pm & return around Midnight. All essential paddling gear & transportation will be provided. Cost is $35 per person. For more details or to reserve a spot visit www.karstadventures.com or Call Amber at 701-609-0590. Space is limited.  

*Must have prior kayaking experience. BYOB

Moonlight Float Dates: 6/29 7/28 7/29 8/24 8/25 8/26 9/23 9/24 9/25

Join Amber Seitz of Karst Adventures as we kick off our 2018 Moonlight Float Series. Enjoy the Upper Iowa River under the full moon with an experienced river guide. Shuttle will leave OFF the Driftless at 8:30pm & return around Midnight. All essential paddling gear & transportation will be provided. Cost is $35 per person. For more details or to reserve a spot visit www.karstadventures.com or Call Amber at 701-609-0590. Space is limited.  

*Must have prior kayaking experience. BYOB

Dates: 6/29 7/28 7/29 8/24 8/25 8/26 9/23 9/24 9/25

The annual Union Sunday School Concert Series features performances by trained musicians on the largest Kimball Pipe Organ in the United States. Built in 1896, the organ was a gift presented by former Iowa Governor William Larrabee to his daughter, Anna, who was the church’s organist for more than 60 years. Union Sunday School is part of the Montauk Historic Site.

Following the concert, the Clermont Historical Society will provide refreshments at the Clermont Opera House – one block from the Union Sunday School. Both the Concert and Tea are free.

The Organ Concert Series is co-sponsored by the State Historical Society of Iowa and the Clermont Historical Society.

Join Amber Seitz of Karst Adventures as we kick off our 2018 Moonlight Float Series. Enjoy the Upper Iowa River under the full moon with an experienced river guide. Shuttle will leave OFF the Driftless at 8:30pm & return around Midnight. All essential paddling gear & transportation will be provided. Cost is $35 per person. For more details or to reserve a spot visit www.karstadventures.com or Call Amber at 701-609-0590. Space is limited.  

*Must have prior kayaking experience. BYOB

Moonlight Float Dates: 6/29 7/28 7/29 8/24 8/25 8/26 9/23 9/24 9/25

Job Seekers: Learn to better understand how to meet workplace expectations.

Everyone is talking about the soft skills gap. The Bring Your A-Game workshop covers the 7 foundational skills of good work ethic, based on interviews with more than 1,500 national employers.

The seven “A’s” – are 7 competencies that are the foundation of workplace success:

Attitude, Attendance, Appearance, Ambition, Accountability, Acceptance, and Appreciation

“Bring Your A Game” workshop was created by the Center for Work Ethic Development – the only institution focused on the research and advancement of work ethic. The Center for Work Ethic Development is helping organizations and individuals build work ethic. 

The “Bring Your A Game” curriculum was developed using research-based instructional design with the goal of not just developing skills but creating lasting behavioral change, by combining experiential learning and a peer-to-peer methodology.

Behavioral change doesn’t happen from reading a book or watching a video, so the curriculum is grounded in evidence-based instructional design that is interactive and engages the participants intellectually and emotionally. A-Game connects these work ethic concepts to the participants’ own needs, which allows insight into why it matters and how it’s meaningful to them.

Bring Your A-Game is offered regularly at IowaWORKS and is open to any adult who wishes to attend. Registration in advance is required.

To register, email amy.chicos@iwd.iowa.gov or call 563-379-9638. There is no fee for registered participants.

For more information go to their website: workethic.org/bring-your-a-game-to-work/

Tanzanian cooking is simple, fresh and delicious! Rachel will share stories of her time in Tanzania including shopping and learning to cook common dishes. Together we will make kachumbali (vegetable salad) and wali na maharage (rice and beans).

Lead by Rachel Sandhorst , this is a hands-on class that is vegetarian and gluten-free, with a limit of 12 participants. Cost is $12 for Co-op Members, $15 for community members, and is eligible for CSA voucher redemption. Call 563-382-4666, or register online at http://oneotacoop.com/education-events/ to reserve your seat!

August 29th • Jumanji (1995)

Love movies and beer? Well then listen up, Toppling Goliath is proud to announce our summer movie night series. The last Wednesday of June, July & August we will be showing a summer blockbuster classic in our upstairs bar. FREE entry, FREE popcorn (as supplies last) and beer service right next to your seat. Shake up the week with a fun social night out at our taproom and join us in watching some great movies while drinking amazing beer. 

With themes of violence, wealth, power, family, hospitality and a desire for the comfort and safety of home, Homer’s “The Odyssey” has stood the test of time and continues to challenges minds of every generation. Emily Wilson, who is the first known woman to pen a complete translation of “The Odyssey” in English, will give the Luther College Opening Convocation address Thursday, Aug. 30.

Convocation begins at 9:40 a.m. in the Center for Faith and Life Main Hall on the Luther campus and is open to the public with no charge for admission.

Wilson will present “Welcoming the Stranger: Translating the Odyssey for our times.” In the translator’s notes of “The Odyssey,” Wilson explores the idea that there is a stranger lurking in everyone. Rather than run from the stranger or fear the unknown, she encourages readers to look past the façade, resist the urge to question its existence and listen carefully to what it has to say. She will discuss how embracing fear relates to current events and the start of a new academic year.

“The Odyssey,” originally written by Homer in the eighth century B.C. and translated by Wilson, is the 2018 Paideia summer reading choice. “The Odyssey” follows Greek hero Odysseus on his 10-year expedition back to Ithaca after the fall of Troy and the struggle his son, Telemachus, and wife, Penelope, experience finding news of Odysseus’ fate after the Trojan War. One of the oldest examples of Western literature, “The Odyssey” is the sequel to he “Iliad,” which focuses on the 10-year Trojan War.

A professor of classical students and graduate chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wilson has a passion for the classics. She’s the author of three books: “Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving with Sophocles to Milton,” “The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint” and “The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca.”

In addition to “The Odyssey,” Wilson has translated “Six Tragedies” and “The Greek Plays.”

Her translation of “The Odyssey,” has been praised in the academic world as a balance between honoring Homer’s pace and intention and bringing a fresh voice to the ancient text. Said Wyatt Mason of The New York Times Magazine, “When I first read these lines early this summer in The Paris Review, which published an excerpt, I was floored. I’d never read an ‘Odyssey’ that sounded like this. It had such directness, the lines feeling not as if they were being fed into iambic pentameter because of some strategic decision but because the meter was a natural mode for its speaker.”

A native of Oxford, United Kingdom, Wilson earned a Bachelor of Arts in Literae Humaniores, classical literature and philosophy from Balliol College in 1994. She went on to garner a master’s degree in English literature from Corpus Christi College in Oxford in 1996 and a Ph.D. in classical and comparative literature from Yale University in 2001. Wilson was named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and early modern scholarship in 2006. Wilson has been a professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 2005.

A national liberal arts college with an enrollment of 2,050, Luther offers an academic curriculum that leads to the Bachelor of Arts degree in more than 60 majors and pre-professional programs. For more information about Luther visit the college’s website: http://www.luther.edu.

Winneshiek Medical Center will hold a Grand Community Picnic on Thursday, August 30 from 4-7 pm on the WMC campus.

Everyone is invited to enjoy free:

• BBQ pork sandwich, chips and a beverage
• Mayo One helicopter tours
• WMC ambulance tours
• Life-size Operation and High Striker games for kids
• Popcorn from the Lions Club
• Trolley rides
• Face painting
• Live music by Mike McAbee
• Garden tours
• Garden food demonstrations
• Blood pressure checks provided by WMC volunteers
• Fire trucks and Winneshiek County Sheriff’s Office Canine demonstrations
• And more!

Moo-Mobile shakes will also be available for $1 each throughout the evening.

Convenient parking will be available, with regular trolley rides running from the parking lots to the event site, as well as to the helicopter and ambulance garage for tours.

Information on the WMC Grand Community Picnic is also available at www.winmedical.org/community-picnic or call 563-382-2911.    

NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group is a free, peer-led support group for adults living with mental illness. You will gain insight from hearing the challenges and successes of others, and the groups are led by NAMI-trained facilitators who’ve been there.

NAMI’s Support Groups are unique because they follow a structured model to ensure you and others in the group have an opportunity to be heard and to get what you need.

By sharing your experiences in a safe and confidential setting, you gain hope and develop relationships. The group encourages empathy, productive discussion and a sense of community.

We love playing the Courtyard/Cellar. And there seems no better place for us to invite you to celebrate the many years of Absolute Hoot with our final Absolute Hoot performance in Decorah. Join us! Come together and help us say goodbye in Hoot style! Bring the kids! Bring the lawn chairs. We hope this night is packed with great memories and we hope we’ll see you there! Thank you for all of these wonderful years! $5 cover at the door goes to help pay the band. Kids 13 and under are free.

This is the first session of an art exploration class for children 2-4 years of age who are ready to make the transition to attending class independently. Easel painting, play dough, and a mystery project each week. Potty trained appreciated, but not required.

This session starts on September 1 and ends on October 6.

Time: Saturdays 10:00 – 11:00am.

Instructor: Emily Youel

The cost is $50 + $25 materials for registration by August 23; $60 + $25 after.

Sign up for both Tiny Masters Sessions and take $10 off with the code tinymasterx2.

Sample dozens of open-pollinated heirloom tomatoes—including favorites and rare varieties from SSE’s seed bank—at our annual FREE Tomato Tasting event. Attend demonstrations, enter our salsa contest, and celebrate fall in our beautiful gardens.

Schedule:

• 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Hayrides (last hayride goes out at 4:15 pm)
• 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tomato Tasting
• 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Salsa Contest (Register for the Salsa Contest)
• 1:30 pm Demonstration: Preserve your tomato harvest for the winter
• 2:30 pm Your Questions Answered: Tips and tricks for growing your best tomatoes
• 3:30 pm Demonstration: Saving seeds from tomatoes

Sample dozens of open-pollinated heirloom tomatoes—including favorites and rare varieties from SSE’s seed bank—at our annual FREE Tomato Tasting event. Attend demonstrations, enter our salsa contest, and celebrate fall in our beautiful gardens.

Schedule:

• 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Hayrides (last hayride goes out at 4:15 pm)
• 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tomato Tasting
• 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Salsa Contest (Register for the Salsa Contest)
• 1:30 pm Demonstration: Preserve your tomato harvest for the winter
• 2:30 pm Your Questions Answered: Tips and tricks for growing your best tomatoes
• 3:30 pm Demonstration: Saving seeds from tomatoes

This will be a knit-a-long. It’s has two colors or a dozen – it’s up to you! This project will be a tutorial in short rows, every other row is short rows.  It’s a wonderful pattern to use up leftover fingering yarns, meet other knitters and learn a new technique.  Other stitches used are the cast on, knitting in garter stitch, and bind off.  A completed shawl is available to see at the Blue Heron Knittery.

Materials needed:  Butterfly Shawl Pattern by Narinja (available on Ravelry or the Blue Heron Knittery), yarn, needles, markers, tapestry needle.  (Note: all materials bought at the Blue Heron Knittery for this class are 10% off!)

Juried Sales Gallery artist Jean Manrique will set up in the Lanesboro Arts Gallery to demonstrate her intricate needle felting techniques on Saturday, September 1 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.

Making felted art objects and eco printed garments and paper prints are the two passions of Saint Paul, MN based artist Jean Manrique. Eco printing is the process of transferring the pigment from real leaves and blossoms onto fiber or paper and so is a seasonal practice. Once there’s a hard freeze here in Minnesota and the leaves are gone, Manrique’s felting season begins.

She has loved working with fine wools ever since she went with her mother to the Amana Woolen Mills in Amana, Iowa to choose special fabric to make her first suit. She saw her mother knitting as a child but didn’t learn to knit herself until she was an exchange student for a year in Switzerland. Manrique thought it seemed as though all the Swiss girls and women knew how to knit and says her host mother thought she should learn as well. Manrique agreed and has been knitting ever since, almost exclusively with wool.

What Manrique loves about making felted wool art is the versatility and beauty of what can be created. She enjoys how the beautiful colors of merino roving and the natural colors of undyed wool fibers feel when they turn silky under her hands when warm water and olive oil soap is added. Manrique claims there is great satisfaction in seeing the soft, wet fibers begin to felt together and become one unified piece of sturdy wool fabric that are then molded into lovely objects. With felt as a medium, Manrique says the possibilities are endless.

Learn the Norwegian language while you explore cultural activities of Norway! The team of students from the Luther College Nordic Studies Program is very excited to lead this program. They will be assisted by Maren Johnson, Assistant Professor of the Nordic Studies Program. Included in each lesson will be basic Norwegian language instruction and typical activities focusing on Norwegian folk art and outdoor traditions. Past students of Norsk Skole are welcome to return.

Tuesdays from 3:15-5:00 p.m. from Sept. 4-Oct 9. For ages 8 to 10.

Tabita Green is an author, speaker, content strategist, and community organizer. In 2011, she left her high-powered corporate job to focus on family, health, and community building. After three years of research into mental health and resilience for her book, Her Lost Year, she believes humanity’s future health and happiness depends on the creation of resilient, sustainable communities and a society focused on equality, justice, and dignity for all people.

“At this talk, Tabita will share her family’s story of despair, hope, and recovery. Less focused on what went wrong, the talk explores what we can do as parents and individuals to promote kids’ and teens’ mental health in today’s frenzied world. Tabita will raise questions about the status quo, offer hope, and inspire action.”

Winneshiek Medical Center Auxiliary members are turning out in combinations of cardinal and gold, and black and gold to root for their favorite team before this year’s big game between Iowa and Iowa State.

The public is invited to join the festivities at the pre-game tailgate lunch on Thursday, September 6 at the Winneshiek Medical Center Main Entrance from 11 am – 1 pm. The tailgate lunch of burgers or roast beef sandwiches, served by the Winneshiek County Cattleman, along with potato chips and a beverage, will be offered for $6. Iowa and Iowa State decorated cookies will be available for purchase. Advanced cookie orders are appreciated.

Every meal purchase gives you a chance to win themed prizes.

Proceeds from Auxiliary events support equipment needs of the medical center. For more information on the tailgate lunch, visit www.winmedical.org/tailgate-party or call Karla Bakken in the Volunteer Services department at 563-387-3036.

DECORAH COMMUNITY FREE MEAL
Building Community Plate by Plate

Join with family, friends and neighbors for a FREE meal* served between 5 pm and 6:15 pm on the first Thursday of the month at First Lutheran Church in Decorah.
All ages are welcome.

The meal is served on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month beginning at 5 pm.

Main dishes are supplied by Sodexo at Luther College or by local restaurants. Salads and desserts are provided by volunteers from local community groups.

*Gluten free options are always available.
Donations welcome.

This class starts on September 6 and goes until December 20. Class meets every Thursday at ArtHaus Gallery and Luther Makerspace, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.

For the second year Decorah area girls are coming together to solve a problem within Decorah using technology.  Girls can help write the technological future that shapes our world.  We need them at the table.  This safe and supportive environment of peers and role models help girls see themselves as computer scientists.

Instructors: Cerissa Snethen, Fatimetu Jatri Emhamed, Steph Hughes, and additional women in tech.

The cost is free with fundraising for registration by Aug 23.

NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group is a free, peer-led support group for adults living with mental illness. You will gain insight from hearing the challenges and successes of others, and the groups are led by NAMI-trained facilitators who’ve been there.

NAMI’s Support Groups are unique because they follow a structured model to ensure you and others in the group have an opportunity to be heard and to get what you need.

By sharing your experiences in a safe and confidential setting, you gain hope and develop relationships. The group encourages empathy, productive discussion and a sense of community.

During this workshop, we’ll create empowering intentions and talk about how to love yourself for who you are and what you have right now. We’ll practice self-love strategies like forgiveness, pranayama/breath work, compassion, gratitude, gentle yoga, self awareness, and body positivity in a supportive, uplifting, and collaborative environment. You’ll leave with tools for monthly reflection, strategies for creating sustainable behavior changes, and an appreciation for your own body, heart, and mind. 

$60/participant. To ask a question or to register for this workshop, contact Sonja at sonjaecklund@gmail.com or Michelle at dayspringspa@live.com

Looking for a fun family adventure?!?! Come experience Minnesota’s premier reptile destination, the RAD Zoo, at Decorah Public Library on Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 11 am! Join us for a highly informative, engaging, and interactive program and marvel at the amazing creatures of the reptile and amphibian world including frogs, turtles, lizards, snakes, and a small crocodilian!

Opened in Owatonna, Minnesota in October 2009, by husband and wife team Jamie and Melissa Pastika, the Reptile and Amphibian Discovery Zoo houses one of the world’s largest reptile displays. It is home to over 150 kinds of animals from all over the world exhibited in naturalistic recreations of their native environments.

Jamie and Melissa Pastika have a combined experience of more than thirty years as professional animal keepers working at some of the finest zoological institutions in the country including the Jacksonville Zoo, Busch Gardens, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom. They both have Bachelor of Science degrees, Jamie in zoo-science and Melissa in biology.

At the conclusion of the presentation, audience members will have the opportunity to come up and take a closer look at the animals, including a chance to touch one or two of them in a controlled setting.

This program is free and open to the public. No advance registration is necessary. For additional information, please contact Joan Roach, Children’s and Youth Librarian at jroach@decorah.lib.ia.us or (563)382-3717.

This will be a knit-a-long. It’s has two colors or a dozen – it’s up to you! This project will be a tutorial in short rows, every other row is short rows.  It’s a wonderful pattern to use up leftover fingering yarns, meet other knitters and learn a new technique.  Other stitches used are the cast on, knitting in garter stitch, and bind off.  A completed shawl is available to see at the Blue Heron Knittery.

Materials needed:  Butterfly Shawl Pattern by Narinja (available on Ravelry or the Blue Heron Knittery), yarn, needles, markers, tapestry needle.  (Note: all materials bought at the Blue Heron Knittery for this class are 10% off!)

n conjunction with Lanesboro’s stop on the 2018 Taste of the Trail, Juried Sales Gallery artist Michael Farrell will be set up in the Lanesboro Arts Gallery for a demonstration of his landscape painting techniques on Saturday, September 8 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. This event is free and open to public.

Michael began his love of painting while studying Wildlife Management at Montana State University. As he would walk the fields and streams, he began to feel the beauty around him and was moved to capture these images in paint. Michael moved to Minnesota in 1983 when he was accepted to study painting in the tradition of Classical Realism. Michael spent two years studying in the Atlier programs.

Currently Michael can be found painting the farms, landscapes and river valleys of the Midwest. His frequent trips to the Rocky Mountains have furthered his love of Plein Air painting. He brings his sketches from the field, back to his studio in White Bear Lake, MN where he continues to work into each piece until he has captured the essence of the landscape. His works in oil and pastel can be found in galleries and private collections across the country.

During this workshop, we’ll create empowering intentions and talk about how to love yourself for who you are and what you have right now. We’ll practice self-love strategies like forgiveness, pranayama/breath work, compassion, gratitude, gentle yoga, self awareness, and body positivity in a supportive, uplifting, and collaborative environment. You’ll leave with tools for monthly reflection, strategies for creating sustainable behavior changes, and an appreciation for your own body, heart, and mind. 

$60/participant. To ask a question or to register for this workshop, contact Sonja at sonjaecklund@gmail.com or Michelle at dayspringspa@live.com

Join us for an evening of music and community with the Dead Horses and Driftless Sisters as we celebrate our one year anniversary of opening for wood-fired pizza!

The Dead Horses are a Milwaukee based band that has cultivated a soulful roots sensibility informed as much by early-American prose as it is modern Americana music. Rolling Stone has called them a “country artist you need to know” and NPR Music says they are an “artist to watch.” We just think they are simply amazing and are totally thrilled to have the Dead Horses play a show at our farm.

A midwestern duo from Galena, IL, the Driftless Sisters perform gorgeous Indy Folk tunes that you will fall in love with.

Advance tickets are $15 and can be purchased the following ways:

• on the Luna Valley Farm website
• in person on pizza nights (4-8pm)
• from the Oneota Community Food Coop in Decorah.

*Tickets purchased online will be available at the farm gate when you arrive for the show.

Tickets will also be sold at the gate the night of the show for $20 (unless sold out).

Farm gates open at 5:45pm / Show starts at 7:00pm

Food and drink will be for sale at the farm. No BYOB.

Let us delight your appetite with our brunch in Peace Dining Room.  •Made to Order Omelets with Eggs •Rotating Waffle/Pancake/French Toast Bar with Toppings •Scrambled Eggs & Weekly Specialty Eggs •Sausage & Bacon •Rotating Carved Meat Station •Hash Browns •Assorted Cheeses •Fresh Fruit •Yogurt •Assorted Breakfast Pastries •Delicious Cakes, Pies & Desserts from the Norse Bakery Hours 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Reservations are encouraged for all Peace Brunch Sundays. Call 563-387-1514 to make reservations.

This class session starts on September 10 and ends on October 22 (No class October 1).

Time: Mondays, 3:15 pm – 5:00pm

Instructor: Jane Busch

Game design is a popular dream job today, but before video game designers there were pinball machine designers. Join us as we combine STEAM education with design knowledge to create spinners, bumpers, ramps and more in a theme of your choice. Take $10 off your material fees by allowing ArtHaus to use your completed machine in our Back to the 80s Artcade event on December 14 and 15. Use the coupon code: ARTCADE when registering. Machines will be returned Dec 17.

Register by Aug 23 for $65 + $40 materials; Registration after Aug 23 will be $75 + $40 materials.

NAMI Family Support Group is a peer-led support group for family members, caregivers, and loved ones of those living with mental illness. These groups are unique because they follow a structured model, ensuring everyone has an opportunity to be heard and get what they need. Participating will help you learn to:

• See the individual first, not the illness
• Find strength in sharing experiences
• Not judge anyone’s pain
• Aim for better coping skills
• Reject stigma and not tolerate discrimination
• Accept that we cannot solve every problem
• Work for a better future in a realistic way

For children of ages 4 – 6

Whether you are invisible, fast, or shoot lasers from your eyes, you can use your special powers to create costumes, pop art paintings, comic strips, and stop motion video. This class meets every Tuesday from 3:15pm to 5:00pm, starting from September 11 to October 16.

Register by Aug 23:  $65 + $30 materials  ($5.50 an hour)

Register after Aug 23:  $75 + $30 materials ($6 an hour)

We will welcome the cool fall weather with an introductory class to learn the basics of rosemaling, decorative painting, just like we saw in the Disney movie Frozen! Come on over to the museum after school and we’ll thaw out together with paint, brushes, and beautiful colors! We’ll learn the basics of rosemaling and design, including how to use four different brushes, and we’ll practice stroke work on backgrounded tag board. “The cold won’t bother us anyway!” This class is supported by The American-Scandinavian Foundation.

Tuesdays from 3:15-5:00 p.m. from Sept.11-Oct 16. For ages 10 to 17.

Area musicians soon will have a new option for musical experiences. Luther College music and education students are opening the Luther College Community Music School, open to anyone in the Decorah area.

LCCMS offers group classes, private lessons and SODA Club, a community choir and dance program for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Group classes will be offered Wednesday morning during teacher in-service time. SODA is held Monday evenings.

Registration is available online at https://tinyurl.com/luthercms.

Group classes are 8-8:50 a.m. Wednesday mornings at Decorah Lutheran Church and are designed for students in grades 3-8. Each class will have two LCCMS teachers. Tuition is $30 per session, with the exception of the Alleluia Choir, for which there is no charge. Fall sessions are Sept. 12-Oct. 17 and Oct. 24-Dec. 5. Options include beginner ukulele, drumming circle, Alleluia Choir, rock band, recorders, song writing, Barred Instrument Band and Chamber Ensemble.

Students enrolling in instrument or voice private lessons will have 12, 30-minute weekly lessons with LCCMS teachers, scheduled for Monday evenings, Wednesday mornings and Saturday mornings, with other times available upon request. A LCCMS student recital will be held at the end of the semester on Luther’s campus. Tuition is $150, which includes the lessons, recital participation and an accompanist for the student recital.

SODA is a community choir led by Luther professors Linda Martin and Jill Wilson which offers vocal production, music literacy, movement and artistic music making. Sessions are Mondays 5:30-6:30 p.m. Sept. 10-Oct. 29 at Decorah Lutheran Church. Tuition is $60.

LCCMS is the result of summer research project by Catelyn Janda, Luther senior from Batavia, Illinois. Janda worked with Wilson, Luther assistant professor of education and coordinator for music education, in addition to collaborating with local music instructors on identifying the potential benefits and subsequent need for a music school.

The school also provides another bridge between Luther College and the Decorah community.

“LCCMS could open opportunities for more students to engage in group and private study and provide a strong foundation to send them on to the many outstanding area instructors and educators,” said Wilson.

Contact Jill Wilson, wilsji01@luther.edu, with questions.

A national liberal arts college with an enrollment of 2,050, Luther offers an academic curriculum that leads to the Bachelor of Arts degree in more than 60 majors and pre-professional programs. For more information about Luther visit the college’s website: http://www.luther.edu.

Are you curious about sheep, the fleece that grows on their backs, and how wool is transformed into cloth? If so, this class is for you. We will visit a flock of sheep, explore various ways to create braids and bands, and learn to knit and weave. This class is supported by The American-Scandinavian Foundation.

Wednesdays from 3:15-5:00 p.m. from Sept. 12-Oct 17. Ages 10 to 17.

For students of ages 6 – 9

Take part in the FIRST LEGO League Junior Season, Mission Moon.  This class is about creative Lego building to solve a problem and so much more.  The group will get to talk with a real NASA engineer who helped with Space Station landings, work with rockets, and those interested may participate in a community presentation at a FIRST competition.  Material fee covers the FIRST curriculum and kit that each group shares in their build. Classes meet every Thursday from 3:15pm to 5:00pm, starting from September 13 to October 18.

Instructor: Sue Pederson

Register by Aug 23: $65 + $10 materials ($5.50 an hour)

Register after Aug 23:  $75 + $10 materials ($6 an hour)

NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group is a free, peer-led support group for adults living with mental illness. You will gain insight from hearing the challenges and successes of others, and the groups are led by NAMI-trained facilitators who’ve been there.

NAMI’s Support Groups are unique because they follow a structured model to ensure you and others in the group have an opportunity to be heard and to get what you need.

By sharing your experiences in a safe and confidential setting, you gain hope and develop relationships. The group encourages empathy, productive discussion and a sense of community.

Shiny objects catch your eye? Ready to create your own designs in silver? In this class you will learn the basic foundations of silversmithing. Bring your creativity and an aptitude to try new things. We will cover soldering, fabricating, and hand-forming metal into your own design. This class offers you creative rein with your projects, including rings, necklaces, earrings, or simple metal objects. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn the basics or grow as a fledgling jeweler. All tools and materials are provided. There will be a materials fee of $65 or more. Sterling silver will be available for purchase at the time of the class.

This class continues to explore the Brioche Stitch.  We will be learning the tubular cast on.  Then moving into knitting two different hats, both using two colors.  It’s the class you have been waiting for!  You will be able to decide on worsted yarn or fingering yarn.  The homework will include the other option.  The patterns are the in Brioche Chic book.

This will be a knit-a-long. It’s has two colors or a dozen – it’s up to you! This project will be a tutorial in short rows, every other row is short rows.  It’s a wonderful pattern to use up leftover fingering yarns, meet other knitters and learn a new technique.  Other stitches used are the cast on, knitting in garter stitch, and bind off.  A completed shawl is available to see at the Blue Heron Knittery.

Materials needed:  Butterfly Shawl Pattern by Narinja (available on Ravelry or the Blue Heron Knittery), yarn, needles, markers, tapestry needle.  (Note: all materials bought at the Blue Heron Knittery for this class are 10% off!)

It’s fun, it’s creative, it’s the perfect night out.  Join ArtHaus as we paint the town with a glass of somethin’ in our hand.  You’ll bring home a painting to hang and plenty of memories.  The first drink is on the house and now we have plenty more drink options, with events happening at coffee shops as well as bars and restaurants.

Cost: $35

Let us delight your appetite with our brunch in Peace Dining Room.  •Made to Order Omelets with Eggs •Rotating Waffle/Pancake/French Toast Bar with Toppings •Scrambled Eggs & Weekly Specialty Eggs •Sausage & Bacon •Rotating Carved Meat Station •Hash Browns •Assorted Cheeses •Fresh Fruit •Yogurt •Assorted Breakfast Pastries •Delicious Cakes, Pies & Desserts from the Norse Bakery Hours 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Reservations are encouraged for all Peace Brunch Sundays. Call 563-387-1514 to make reservations.

Jack and Kitty are high school sweethearts that play “Organic Vaudeville and Jug Band Folk” music. Kitty is the niece of reggae legend Bunny Wailer (of Bob Marley and the Wailers) and Jack’s babysitter was ukulele oddball Tiny Tim. The Emmy Award winning vaudevillian songsters love to perform concerts nationwide, playing a wide variety of folk instruments including: guitar, ukulele, washboard, jug, kazoo, harmonica, whizbang, rumba box and much more. $5 cover charge.

Area musicians soon will have a new option for musical experiences. Luther College music and education students are opening the Luther College Community Music School, open to anyone in the Decorah area.

LCCMS offers group classes, private lessons and SODA Club, a community choir and dance program for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Group classes will be offered Wednesday morning during teacher in-service time. SODA is held Monday evenings.

Registration is available online at https://tinyurl.com/luthercms.

Group classes are 8-8:50 a.m. Wednesday mornings at Decorah Lutheran Church and are designed for students in grades 3-8. Each class will have two LCCMS teachers. Tuition is $30 per session, with the exception of the Alleluia Choir, for which there is no charge. Fall sessions are Sept. 12-Oct. 17 and Oct. 24-Dec. 5. Options include beginner ukulele, drumming circle, Alleluia Choir, rock band, recorders, song writing, Barred Instrument Band and Chamber Ensemble.

Students enrolling in instrument or voice private lessons will have 12, 30-minute weekly lessons with LCCMS teachers, scheduled for Monday evenings, Wednesday mornings and Saturday mornings, with other times available upon request. A LCCMS student recital will be held at the end of the semester on Luther’s campus. Tuition is $150, which includes the lessons, recital participation and an accompanist for the student recital.

SODA is a community choir led by Luther professors Linda Martin and Jill Wilson which offers vocal production, music literacy, movement and artistic music making. Sessions are Mondays 5:30-6:30 p.m. Sept. 10-Oct. 29 at Decorah Lutheran Church. Tuition is $60.

LCCMS is the result of summer research project by Catelyn Janda, Luther senior from Batavia, Illinois. Janda worked with Wilson, Luther assistant professor of education and coordinator for music education, in addition to collaborating with local music instructors on identifying the potential benefits and subsequent need for a music school.

The school also provides another bridge between Luther College and the Decorah community.

“LCCMS could open opportunities for more students to engage in group and private study and provide a strong foundation to send them on to the many outstanding area instructors and educators,” said Wilson.

Contact Jill Wilson, wilsji01@luther.edu, with questions.

A national liberal arts college with an enrollment of 2,050, Luther offers an academic curriculum that leads to the Bachelor of Arts degree in more than 60 majors and pre-professional programs. For more information about Luther visit the college’s website: http://www.luther.edu.

DECORAH COMMUNITY FREE MEAL
Building Community Plate by Plate

Join with family, friends and neighbors for a FREE meal* served between 5 pm and 6:15 pm on the third Thursday of the month, at First Lutheran Church in Decorah.
All ages are welcome.

The meal is served on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month beginning at 5 pm.

Main dishes are supplied by local restaurants with assistance by volunteers from community groups.

*Gluten free options are always available.
Donations welcome.

NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group is a free, peer-led support group for adults living with mental illness. You will gain insight from hearing the challenges and successes of others, and the groups are led by NAMI-trained facilitators who’ve been there.

NAMI’s Support Groups are unique because they follow a structured model to ensure you and others in the group have an opportunity to be heard and to get what you need.

By sharing your experiences in a safe and confidential setting, you gain hope and develop relationships. The group encourages empathy, productive discussion and a sense of community.

All ages are welcome to join ArtHaus in paint-a-longs in the ArtHaus Studio. Enjoys a treat of cookies and milk alongside your paintings. Parents are welcome to register to paint along side their children or collaborate on a painting together. Walking School Bus is provided from John Cline, Montessori and Carrie Lee.

Cost: $20

This crocheted sweater is gorgeous in a striping fingering yarn.  Noro uses the Silk Garden fingering yarn.  This sweater has several stitches:  Chain, single crochet, double crochet, V-st (come learn about this one!)  We are learning gauge, sweater construction, and finishing techniques.

Materials needed:  Boxy Cardigan Pattern by Noro, yarn, crochet hook, measuring tape, markers, tapestry needle, buttons.  .  (Note: all materials bought at the Blue Heron Knittery for this class are 10% off!)

Let us delight your appetite with our brunch in Peace Dining Room.  •Made to Order Omelets with Eggs •Rotating Waffle/Pancake/French Toast Bar with Toppings •Scrambled Eggs & Weekly Specialty Eggs •Sausage & Bacon •Rotating Carved Meat Station •Hash Browns •Assorted Cheeses •Fresh Fruit •Yogurt •Assorted Breakfast Pastries •Delicious Cakes, Pies & Desserts from the Norse Bakery Hours 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Reservations are encouraged for all Peace Brunch Sundays. Call 563-387-1514 to make reservations.

Looking to the future through windows of the past…

Join the Clermont Historical Society at their annual Fundraising Tea. A formal luncheon will be served and music provided by local musician Russ Guyer. All proceeds will go towards the restoration of the historic windows in the Larrabee School Building.

Tickets are limited so don’t wait to reserve yours!

Tickets are $10

Available at the Clermont City Office, by calling 563-422-1712, or by emailing BrickCityHistory@gmail.com

Upstart Crow Theatreworks presents a moving and fascinating look at Decorah’s History in beautiful Phelps Cemetery. Audience members take a guided tour among costumed performers of all ages, located throughout the costumed performers of all ages, located throughout the cemetery, bringing to life a wide variety or characters from Decorah’s past. Tours leave every 15 minutes. Tickets available at the gate, with proceeds to benefit the Porter House Museum. 

Cost: $10

Join Amber Seitz of Karst Adventures as we kick off our 2018 Moonlight Float Series. Enjoy the Upper Iowa River under the full moon with an experienced river guide. Shuttle will leave OFF the Driftless at 8:30pm & return around Midnight. All essential paddling gear & transportation will be provided. Cost is $35 per person. For more details or to reserve a spot visit www.karstadventures.com or Call Amber at 701-609-0590. Space is limited.  

*Must have prior kayaking experience. BYOB

Moonlight Float Series Dates: 6/29 7/28 7/29 8/24 8/25 8/26 9/23 9/24 9/25