The Twentieth Century Club met on Oct. 27 at MAAC with guest speaker Debi Estabrook from the Marshalltown Evening Lion’s Club on Kid’s Sight First. Estabrook shared that A Joint Project of the Lions Clubs of Iowa and the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences at the University ...

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO On Oct. 28, Tuesday Musical Club members Judy Erion, Caitlin Downing, Valerie Sondag, Mary Kurth and Karen Engesser performed various music selections at Central Christian Church in Marshalltown. Using their theme of Telling A Story, Painting A Picture, the music performed ...

The Spinning Wheel Chapter National Society Daughters of American Revolution met Oct. 18 at the Embers. There were 10 members and two guests present. Executive Director Danielle Lekin from the Central Business District gave the program about what’s happening in downtown Marshalltown. She ...

The October General Meeting of the VFW Post 839 was held at the Post Home on Oct. 21. President Theresa Shepherd called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. followed by the opening ceremonies according to the Ritual. There were 12 members present and 1 guest, Mary Buresh. She will be transferring ...

The Optimist Club of Marshalltown hosted Rache Norton, events and marketing manager of the Marshalltown Area United Way, as the guest speaker at its Oct. 23 weekly meeting. Norton, who has been with the MAUW for 10 months, related the history of the agency, which first began in 1929 as the ...

“The shoe does not walk alone, it must be filled by a foot to make its journey,” said Tracy Ostrem — an excerpt from her youth program speech replicated and delivered to P.E.O. Chapter JU-LT. “And, like the shoe, we cannot make our journey alone.” The program’s focus ranged from ...