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When the Encounter Café opened in August 2017, manager Ray Yutzy imagined the new restaurant would gradually ease into its place and purpose. Instead, alert media reporters immediately …
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By Cheryl Allen |
7/19/23 01:35 PM
Community leaders gathered July 13 to officially acknowledge the launch of the second Student-Built housing project led by the city of Kalona. Although 12 students from Mid-Prairie, Highland, …
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By Cheryl Allen |
7/19/23 10:26 AM
A city’s government is bound to serve its residents, and prior to 2015, the City of Kalona felt it was letting theirs down when it came to opportunities for recreation, socialization, and …
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By Cheryl Allen |
7/5/23 09:21 AM
It’s hard to miss the Little Free Libraries that have popped up around communities since 2009. A painted wood box with a shelf or two behind a windowed front door, these little dwellings …
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By Cheryl Allen |
6/21/23 09:08 AM
Pie Winners
Grand Champion: Mary Hershberger with her Apple Pie
1st Runner-Up: Amy Allen with Grandma Opal’s Apple Pie
2nd Runner-Up: Ellis Vizcarrando with his Strawberry Mango …
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6/21/23 09:05 AM
Cheryl Allen |
6/14/23 09:41 AM
It’s a challenge to bring back a beloved event year after year while both respecting its traditions and keeping it exciting and new. That challenge is taken on again this year by Tonia …
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By Cheryl Allen |
6/14/23 09:13 AM
Unaware tourists often stumble into Mary Swander’s AgArts office on B Avenue, Kalona, expecting the next antique or gift shop on their downtown shopping tour. Until the award-winning …
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By Cheryl Allen |
6/7/23 09:58 AM
Kalona’s newest playground equipment is open for play, just in time for summer.
On Wednesday, May 31, city workers cleaned up the edges of Kalona City Park’s newest …
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By Cheryl Allen |
6/7/23 09:57 AM
“My name is Paul Christen. I was in the U.S. Air Force January 1962 to January of 1966,” he begins. “I grew up in northeast Iowa, and I loved airplanes. I had …
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By Cheryl Allen |
5/24/23 11:02 AM
The Kalona Farmers Market was off to a good start despite threatening weather Saturday, May 13. This is the first time downtown streets were closed for the event. The farmers market will …
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5/18/23 01:32 PM
The book divided the community, but it will remain shelved in the adult non-fiction section of the Kalona Public Library.
In a 5-2 vote Tuesday, May 9, the Board of Trustees determined …
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By Cheryl Allen |
5/17/23 09:25 AM
Consider, for a moment, DNA. Every cell in your body contains this blueprint for your body as a whole. Inside every tiny part, we can see an image of the entire organism.
So it is …
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By Cheryl Allen |
5/10/23 09:47 AM
Attendees come from almost all 48 continental states to see and buy quilts in Kalona at the Quilt Show on April 27 - 29.
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By Cheryl Allen |
5/3/23 10:22 AM
A little steam engine had a long train of cars to pull. She went along very well until she came to a steep hill. But then, no matter how hard she tried, she could not move the long train …
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By Cheryl Allen |
5/3/23 09:51 AM
Tonia Poole finished sewing her second-ever quilt. It was a Quilt of Valor, a handmade quilt to be awarded to a veteran or service member who has been touched by war. She signed it, …
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By Cheryl Allen |
4/26/23 12:55 PM
Kalona is no stranger to the crafted art of quilting, being named the “quilt capital” of Iowa. Woodin Wheel, located in the heart of Kalona, is the largest American-made quilt retailer in …
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By TJ Rhodes |
4/26/23 12:32 PM
Mid-Prairie East elementary Principal Greg Jergens explained to Kalona Rotary club members April 18 that the new fenced in area between East Elementary and Middle School in Kalona …
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By Ron Slechta |
4/26/23 10:06 AM
The Easter Bunny Visits Hall Park
Postponing the Easter Bunny’s visit to Riverside until April 8 turned out to be a good idea. It was much warmer than the previous weekend and …
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4/12/23 12:55 PM
