INSIDE: REAL ESTATE WEEKLY • COMMUNITY NEWS VOLUME 11, ISSUE 20 • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2018
CALENDAR OF EVENTS AUGUST 15
PARKS YOGA AT INIS GROVE PARK: Come to Inis Grove Park at 6 p.m. for the fi nal park pop-up yoga class this summer. Bring your mat and a friend. See the Facebook event page for more information.
AUGUST 15
LOCAL CIDER AND CHEESE TASTING: Join local Iowa producers at Wheatsfield Cooperative at 7 p.m. to support them and their creations. Join Bronwyn, Wheatsfield Co-op’s beer and wine buyer, for this local cider and cheese tasting adventure. Four local ciders paired with four local cheeses is sure to please. Learn about the orchard fields and dairy farms that bring these local harvests to you one sip and bite at a time. Members $8, non-members $10.
AUGUST 16 PUB FICTION:
Dress like your favorite literary character and visit participating downtown Ames drinking establishments with Ames Public Library. There will be different themes and exclusive drink specials for attendees. Participants must be at least 21 years old. Get your ticket for $15 from the library’s Welcome Desk or online at bit.ly/amespubfiction.
AUGUST 17
SENIOR VARIETY SHOW — SIMPLY STELLAR: The 24th-annual Senior Variety Show will be at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 17, and at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 18, at Ames City Auditorium. Any senior in Story County, 60 years of age or older, is encouraged to try out for this year’s production, “Simply Stellar.”
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Front row, from left, Carol Miller, Nancy Maydew, Jane Edwards, Barbara Peterson, Sabina Peters Daywater (guest), Darlene Harl, and Phyllis Peters; back row, from left,Margy Howarth, Jean McMaken, Suzanne Peters, Peggy Faden, Mary Ann Lundy, Patricia Newman, Lynne Bishop, Carol Alexander Phillips, Jeri Prescott, Diane Patton, Bette Conkin (guest), Nancy Marks, Iowa President Ann Gale, and Carol Weber. Not pictured: Nancy Brannaman, Becky Coats, Delores Day, Jean Giddings, Polly Gilbert, Colleen Gryte, Fay Gish Hill, Becky Lamkey, Frankie Parrott, Randi Peters, Ann Russell, Marianne Spalding, Carole Stevens, Janis Stone, Jeanne Warning, Carol Weber and Margaretjean Weltha. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
AAUW Ames celebrates 100 years Organized on Jan. 30, 1918, AAUW Ames (American Association of University Women) is celebrating their centennial year. AAUW is the nation’s leading voice advancing equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research. Since its founding, the Ames Branch has been instrumen-
tal in underwriting graduate student scholarship over the decades. More recently AAUW Ames has supported two Campus Action Projects at Iowa State University: Elect Her, a program to promote election of women in student government; and Womyn of Color: Equity and Leadership Initiative, through a grant to Iowa State
University’s Margaret Sloss Women’s Center to promote social change. In addition, two women at Iowa State University are current AAUW Fellows. In the 2018-19 academic year, AAUW is providing $3.9 million in funding for fellowships and grants to 250 outstanding women and nonprofit organizations. As part of the
Happy Go Luckies 4-H Club donates to Food at First
TEEN ADVISORY GROUP: Get involved at Ames Public Library by joining the Teen Advisory Group (TAG). TAG members help plan the library’s teen events and help choose books, movies, and music for teens. TAG will meet at 11 a.m. on Saturdays, Aug. 4 and 18, at Ames Public Library. Come eat free pizza and make some new friends. Supported by Ames Public Library Friends Foundation.
AUGUST 18
BALANCING YOUR MIND AND POSTURE: Meet Dr. Ayusa Ogawa and learn how the NUCCA – National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association — can help you with balancing your mind and posture. Join For more events, see page 3 Matt Melody, Kate Melody and Travis Goffof Franklin Happy-Go-Luckies 4-H Club deliver eggs to Mary Ellen Wishart and Tom Fenton, who assist at Food at First. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
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celebratory year, AAUW Iowa President Ann Gale presented a Centennial Recognition Award to the Ames branch on May 12. Also, AAUW Ames will co-sponsor Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen’s public presentation, “Working My Way Up the Ranks,” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 27, at Ames Public Library.
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The Franklin Happy-Go-Luckies 4-H Club collected eggs from the poultry exhibited at the 2018 Story County Fair. Twenty-six dozen eggs were collected during the week. Poultry exhibited at the fair included chickens (layers, meat birds, and bantams), turkeys, quail, and water fowl. The club delivered the eggs to Ames Food at First on behalf of the Story County Poultry exhibitors.