SELCC sign up
Sign up is open for Southeast Linn Community Center’s holiday assistance programs, including November and December holiday food boxes and Adopt-a-Family gifts for children.
These programs are open to anyone who uses the SELCC food pantry or who lives, works or goes to school in Lisbon or Mount Vernon. Sign-up deadline for all holiday assistance is Friday, Nov. 1. Register online at selinn.org or in-person at 108 S. Washington St. Call 319-455-2844 or email [email protected] with any questions.
After Halloween party
Lester Buresh Family Community Wellness Center will be hosting an after Halloween party Friday, Nov. 1, from noon to 3 p.m. There is no school for Mount Vernon Schools during the day. Video gaming systems, VR headsets will be set up in the community room, a rock wall challenge, a scavenger hunt and a craft for kids to complete. Daily admission for non-members, free admission for members. Children 10 and under must be accompanied by a person 16-years or older to attend.
Lisbon Veterans Day assembly
The Lisbon Veterans Day Assembly will be held Monday, Nov. 11, in the Lions’ Den at 10 a.m. If you are interested in putting a picture of a family member or acquaintance in the slide show, please email the picture and family information (name of your veteran and who they are related to and how) to [email protected]. ia.us. The school makes a new slide show each year, so if you have had a veteran in it previously we would like for you to resend the picture again so we can keep things as up to date as possible. Deadline for turning in your picture is Monday, Nov. 4.
Palisades Kepler fall clean-up
The Palisades Kepler State Park will have its annual fall clean-up 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 9. Meet in the campgrounds at the park. This is the group’s annual “Help Shut Down the Sea- son” event. Plan to meet in the campground and job tasks will be assigned. The Friends need rakers, cabin cleaners, trash picker-uppers, and lodge winterizers. The Friends of Palisades Keplar State Park Facebook page (@FriendsofPalisadesKepler) will have a sign-up genius set up prior to the date.
The Friends will host this event unless it’s storming: please dress for the weather. Bring work gloves, rakes, water. There will be a fire in one of the campground sites.
In Longing and Hope
The congregations of United Methodist Church of Mount Vernon, First Presbyterian Church of Mount Vernon and Seeds of Faith Lutheran Church will be holding a service of community before the election Monday, Nov. 4, at Seeds of Faith Lutheran Church. The service begins at 6:30 p.m. A special offering will be collected for Southeast Linn Community Center. A time of fellowship and light refreshments will follow. The three pastors came together after noticing the rise of hateful and violent rhetoric during this election cycle and planned this evening worship in the hopes of gathering not just members of their congregations, but the whole community, around peace, love, and our shared humanity.