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<strong>DISCOVER</strong>! MAGAZINE<br />
APRIL 14, 2018<br />
A FREE WEEKLY ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE FROM IOWA INFORMATION PUBLICATIONS<br />
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2 | Contents<br />
8<br />
The Dickinson County Nature Center will celebrate<br />
Earth Day with Trivia Night on Friday,<br />
April 20.<br />
4<br />
Community:<br />
6<br />
Playbill:<br />
7<br />
Community:<br />
8<br />
Community:<br />
10<br />
A free carnival for<br />
a good cause will be held April 21<br />
“Bridges of Madison<br />
County” is onstage in Spencer in April<br />
Line dancing lessons<br />
offer weekly fun at The Barn<br />
Nature Center celebrates<br />
Earth Day with Trivia Night<br />
Screen: New releases for the big<br />
screen and good new rentals.<br />
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4<br />
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He’s been rehearsing for the lip sync<br />
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and costumes.<br />
He sent a picture<br />
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I always knew he<br />
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Tonight he called for just a few minutes<br />
as he was on his way to the fraternity house<br />
to bake cookies. “Bake cookies?” I questioned.<br />
That too had something to do with<br />
a service project, though I never learned if<br />
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them away to other houses or community<br />
groups.<br />
I’m curious to see how that went. When<br />
he was younger Sam would occasionally<br />
mix up a batch of chocolate chip cookies<br />
just to eat some of the dough. The baking<br />
part he left to me. I’m curious to hear how<br />
a bunch of college guys did in the kitchen.<br />
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4 | Community<br />
At a Glance:<br />
WHAT: CARES Carnival<br />
WHERE: Dickinson County Expo<br />
Center, 1600 15th St, Spirit Lake<br />
WHEN: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday,<br />
April 21<br />
COST: Free<br />
CONTACT: 712-336-2759<br />
ONLINE: Find Dickinson County<br />
CARES on Facebook<br />
RYLAN HOWE | STAFF WRITER<br />
Who doesn’t like a<br />
carnival, there’s no<br />
entry or ticket fees,<br />
it’s free will donation<br />
for a great cause and<br />
you can have a fun<br />
afternoon with your<br />
family.<br />
Sheila Ove<br />
CARES Carnival<br />
Fundraising and fun for the whole family<br />
The carnival is coming back to<br />
town.<br />
The CARES Carnival is set for<br />
its second go-around at the Dickinson<br />
County Expo Center on Saturday,<br />
April 21 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. in Spirit<br />
Lake.<br />
The event is a fundraiser organized<br />
by Dickinson County CARES (Community<br />
Advocates Ready to Empower<br />
Survivors) with all proceeds being<br />
split between Family Crisis Centers<br />
(FCC) and Centers Against Abuse and<br />
Sexual Assault (CAASA).<br />
Sheila Ove, owner of Grand Occasions<br />
Event Design & Rentals in Spirit<br />
Lake, helped the event get its start and<br />
hopes it will become an annual occurrence.<br />
“A family friend came to us and said<br />
they really wanted to start fundraising<br />
and raising awareness and asked<br />
if we could possibly help them plan<br />
an event,” Ove said “We said ‘yes,’ and<br />
now almost three years later, this is<br />
our second carnival and we hope to<br />
make it an annual event.”<br />
Last year the CARES Carnival raised<br />
about $6,000 for FCC and CAASA,<br />
and the goal this year is to more than<br />
double that amount.<br />
“We felt last year’s carnival was quite<br />
successful. We had great attendance,”<br />
Ove said. “So we’re not changing very<br />
much this time around.”<br />
There will be carnival games like<br />
ring toss and fish bowls, inflatables,<br />
a clown, face painting, dunk tank, DJ,<br />
karaoke, petting zoo and a silent auction.<br />
“Special K’z the Clown will have a<br />
30-minute stage show and put people<br />
in bubbles and she’ll walk around<br />
too. That’s cool,” Ove said. “The petting<br />
zoo was a huge hit, so that will be<br />
back, and the dunk tank will be there<br />
and we think our firemen will be back<br />
so we’ll be dunking firemen.”<br />
The one big change will be in the<br />
format of the carnival games. Last year<br />
visitors paid one dollar per game. This<br />
year it is all free.<br />
“The main reason is we don’t want<br />
to exclude anybody from coming,”<br />
Ove said. “We’re making it free will<br />
donation and hopeful that that can<br />
make it a more community inclusive<br />
event.”<br />
The few aspects of the CARES Carnival<br />
that will require cash will be<br />
the petting zoo, CARES Cafe, and the<br />
silent auction.<br />
The petting zoo charges $1 for a bag<br />
of food to feed the animals. CARES<br />
Cafe will have a simple menu with<br />
things like walking tacos, sandwiches<br />
and soda. Five dollars will get a carnival-goer<br />
a sandwich, chips and a<br />
soda. There will also be mini donuts,<br />
popcorn and cotton candy available<br />
during the carnival.<br />
Ove said they are still accepting donation<br />
for the silent auction as well. It<br />
will take place from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.<br />
And again, all proceeds will benefit<br />
FCC and CAASA.<br />
Interspersed between the game<br />
booths this year will also be informational<br />
booths set up by FCC, CAASA,<br />
CARES, Bikers Against Child Abuse<br />
(BACA) and perhaps a few more.<br />
“The carnival is definitely a driver<br />
in giving the community more information<br />
about the services that are<br />
available,” Ove said. “If anyone knows<br />
someone who’s a victim of abuse,<br />
they know it’s life altering. Help us<br />
The second annual CARES Carnival<br />
will be held from 11 a.m.-3<br />
p.m. on Saturday, April 21, at the<br />
Dickinson County Expo Center in<br />
Spirit Lake. PHOTOS SUBMITTED<br />
help our community. It’s not something<br />
that’s comfortable to talk about,<br />
but we’ll counter that with an event<br />
that’s nothing but fun, a totally fun<br />
day.”<br />
Flyers will be sent out to all area<br />
schools including Spirit Lake, Graettinger-Terril,<br />
Harris-Lake Park, Okoboji<br />
and Estherville Lincoln Central,<br />
so Ove hopes to see plenty of families<br />
come by for an afternoon of fun and<br />
games.<br />
“Who doesn’t like a carnival,” Ove<br />
said. “There’s no entry or ticket fees,<br />
it’s free will donation for a great cause<br />
and you can have a fun afternoon<br />
with your family.” F<br />
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6| Playbill<br />
At a Glance:<br />
WHAT: “The Bridges of Madison<br />
County”<br />
WHERE: Spencer Community Theatre,<br />
518 1st Ave. E, Spencer<br />
WHEN: April 20-22, 27-29<br />
CONTACT: 712-262-7336<br />
ONLINE: www.sctplayhouse.org<br />
KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER<br />
Falling in<br />
‘The Bridges of<br />
Madison County’<br />
onstage in Spencer<br />
Love<br />
The Spencer Community Theatre<br />
is offering up their last show of<br />
the season.<br />
They’ll be bringing the musical<br />
version of “The Bridges of Madison<br />
County” on April 20-22, 27-29.<br />
The show tells the story of Francesca<br />
Johnson who lives in Winterset, IA,<br />
but she was born and raised in Italy.<br />
She has a husband, Bud, and two children,<br />
who are taking off to attend the<br />
national 4-H show where Francesca’s<br />
daughter, Carolyn, will be showing<br />
her prize steer.<br />
While Francesca is about to enjoy a<br />
weekend at home by herself, a pickup<br />
pulls into the drive.<br />
The pickup holds National Geographic<br />
photographer Robert Kincaid.<br />
He’s searching out and photographing<br />
the famous covered bridges of<br />
Madison County.<br />
Francesca offers to help him find<br />
the Roseman Bridge, which is a bridge<br />
he has had trouble locating.<br />
As the two spend more time together<br />
over just a few days, Francesca<br />
and Robert fall in love.<br />
Francesca is faced with a decision.<br />
Leave her family to be with the love<br />
of her life or stay with her family who<br />
she also loves. I’m not going to spoil<br />
the ending, so you’ll have to go see the<br />
show.<br />
This musical will be the final show<br />
in Spencer Community Theatre’s 58th<br />
season and it’s one you aren’t going to<br />
want to miss. F<br />
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Community | 7<br />
RYLAN HOWE | STAFF WRITER<br />
I’ve been dancing a<br />
long time. I just love it.<br />
Becky Dewey<br />
Dance the night away<br />
Bring your boots to the Barn for country dance lessons<br />
Walk into The Barn at Okoboji<br />
on a Thursday evening and<br />
you’ll hear them before you<br />
see them. Stomps, steps, some clapping<br />
and country music emanates<br />
from upstairs.<br />
That’s because each Thursday from<br />
7-9 p.m. the Barn hosts Country<br />
Dance Lessons.<br />
Becky Dewey of Pocahontas drives<br />
up each week to guide regulars and<br />
newcomers through the steps and get<br />
everyone on the same page for a footstomping<br />
good time.<br />
Dewey first started to learn line<br />
dancing in Las Vegas in the early<br />
1980s.<br />
“I’ve been dancing a long time,”<br />
Dewey said. “I just love it.”<br />
She began teaching classes herself in<br />
1992 in Pocahontas. There were classes<br />
in a restaurant building and night<br />
courses at a college gym. And just as<br />
her teaching days seemed to begin to<br />
wind down, she got right back into it<br />
by almost pure providence.<br />
“We went to a county dance in<br />
Dubuque and had a blast. I told my<br />
sister then that I had to get back into<br />
teaching — that’s what I love,” Dewey<br />
said. “And the next morning I got a<br />
call asking if I’d come to Humboldt to<br />
teach classes.”<br />
Eventually the dance steps would<br />
lead Dewey to Okoboji.<br />
She taught a group some dances<br />
during the Barn’s grand opening two<br />
years ago, and came back for their first<br />
year anniversary last summer.<br />
Around September the weekly<br />
Thursday Country Dance Lessons<br />
began. At first maybe 15-20 people<br />
attended, but the line dancing fun was<br />
not to be contained. Every week a few<br />
more people came and the most recent<br />
dance saw about 90 people pack<br />
the barn.<br />
“After the first of the year I don’t<br />
know if it was winter blues or what<br />
but it steadily grew each time. There’s<br />
obviously been a need for it and<br />
people have told me they’d been<br />
wanting something like this,” Dewey<br />
said. “I’ve been just flabbergasted and<br />
it’s just been mostly word of mouth.<br />
It’s a phenomenal bunch of people.<br />
They all want to learn and are willing<br />
to help each other out.”<br />
Learning line dances is exactly what<br />
she would like the next generation to<br />
do.<br />
“I want them to learn and get in<br />
there and enjoy it as much as I do,”<br />
Dewey said. “Then when they’re my<br />
age they can still do all the same steps,<br />
they may just call the dance by a different<br />
name. It’s just so much fun and<br />
it’s why I drive 90 miles to do it.”<br />
Dewey’s enthusiasm has certainly<br />
caught on with the crowd, regardless<br />
of age or line dancing experience.<br />
She recalled one young participant<br />
who enjoyed it so much that the next<br />
week he came back with parents,<br />
grandparents and an aunt all in tow.<br />
The resulting mix of ages — Dewey<br />
noted that most weeks participants<br />
range from 16-80 years old — makes<br />
for a wonderful experience for everyone.<br />
Each week Dewey typically covers<br />
the steps for a song a few times without<br />
music, then everyone tries it out<br />
to a song. For the last half hour so, the<br />
lessons mostly stop, the music keeps<br />
on playing and everyone gets a chance<br />
to perfect their steps.<br />
The plan is for the weekly dances to<br />
continue through April and May for<br />
sure. Plans for future country dance<br />
lessons will be revisited as the summer<br />
season gets into full swing.<br />
In the meantime, Dewey encourages<br />
everyone to come have some fun<br />
and give country dance lessons a try.<br />
“It’s a great place, very fun up there<br />
at the Barn,” Dewey said. “Everyone<br />
can come up, enjoy themselves, enjoy<br />
the music, get in the middle of it all<br />
and have some fun.” F<br />
Country Dance Lessons at The<br />
Barn at Okoboji are held on<br />
Thursday evenings from 7-9 p.m.<br />
The lessons are becoming more<br />
and more popular as the weeks<br />
go on. PHOTOS BY RYLAN HOWE<br />
At a Glance:<br />
WHAT: Country Dance Lessons<br />
WHERE: The Barn at Okoboji, 2325<br />
41st Street/HWY 71, Spirit Lake<br />
WHEN: Thursdays from 7-9 p.m.<br />
COST: $5 suggested donation<br />
CONTACT: 712-330-7158<br />
ONLINE: www.thebarnatokoboji.<br />
com<br />
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8 | Community<br />
At a Glance:<br />
WHAT: Earth Day Celebration Trivia<br />
Night<br />
WHERE: Dickinson County Nature<br />
Center, 2273 170th St., Okoboji<br />
WHEN: 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 20<br />
COST: Free<br />
CONTACT: 712-336-6352<br />
ONLINE: dickinsoncountyconservationboard.com/nature-center<br />
Prizes<br />
Prizes will be awarded to the<br />
winners of each round, and for<br />
the overall first, second and third<br />
place teams. The grand prize<br />
is two sets of snowshoes and<br />
other goodies worth almost $400<br />
donated by the Okoboji Expedition<br />
Company. Second place is<br />
a family game night basket with<br />
a carpet cleaning gift certificate<br />
worth up to $110 from Servpro,<br />
and third place is six gift certificates<br />
for University of Okoboji<br />
T-shirts at The Three Sons in Milford.<br />
Other prizes have been donated<br />
by: Bird Haven, Boernsen Bees,<br />
Dickinson County Conservation,<br />
Great Lakes Cinema 7, Papa<br />
Murphy’s, Rabab’s, Wal-Mart and<br />
West O.<br />
KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER<br />
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guess<br />
Nature Center hosts Earth<br />
Day trivia night April 20<br />
Question: Who loves trivia?<br />
If you do, then the Dickinson<br />
County Nature Center is<br />
offering up a night of entertainment<br />
just for you.<br />
To celebrate Earth Day, they’ll be<br />
hosting a trivia night to test people’s<br />
knowledge about this planet we all<br />
call home.<br />
The Earth Day Celebration Trivia<br />
night will start at 6:30 p.m. Friday,<br />
April 20, at the Dickinson County<br />
Nature Center.<br />
“Through the years, we’ve celebrated<br />
Earth Day week in a lot of different<br />
ways, and this year we’re excited to try<br />
something new with a family-friendly<br />
trivia night competition hosted in our<br />
new Pollinator Paradise addition at<br />
the nature center,” said Kiley Roth,<br />
community relations coordinator for<br />
the Dickinson County Conservation<br />
Board.<br />
Teams of two to six people can either<br />
register in advance of the Trivia<br />
Night or they can register at the event.<br />
The doors open at 6 p.m.<br />
Trivia Night will include a number<br />
of different rounds that will each<br />
feature 10 questions. The rounds will<br />
have themes such as outdoor recreation,<br />
nature photo identification,<br />
earth science, Iowa history, sound clip<br />
identification and famous environmentalists.<br />
“Our trivia night questions will<br />
feature a wide variety of topics about<br />
nature, the outdoors, science, animals,<br />
plants and so much more,” Roth said.<br />
“We think testing people’s knowledge<br />
about everything in the environment<br />
is a great way to celebrate Earth Day,<br />
because even if you don’t know the<br />
answers you’ll learn a lot and have fun<br />
participating.”<br />
But don’t worry if you aren’t an eco<br />
buff.<br />
“Even those who don’t consider<br />
themselves environmental experts or<br />
conservationists can participate,” Roth<br />
said. “We’ll have questions about<br />
camping, kayaking, hunting, fishing,<br />
birds, Native Americans, weather and<br />
so much more. Anyone can participate.”<br />
In between the trivia rounds short<br />
breaks will be held and environmental<br />
education coordinator Bryanna<br />
Kuhlman and naturalist Ashley Hansen<br />
will lead three kids challenges.<br />
The kids will be able to dress the<br />
naturalists up as bugs, participate<br />
in an animal movement relay and<br />
earn some prizes. For those kids who<br />
might lose interest in the trivia part of<br />
the night, there will be coloring pages<br />
and toys available to help keep them<br />
entertained.<br />
Adults can enjoy beer and wine<br />
from West O and Little Swan Lake<br />
Winery if they purchase a souvenir<br />
glass for $5.<br />
Prizes will be awarded to the winners<br />
of each round throughout the<br />
night and to the overall top three<br />
teams after all the rounds are finished.<br />
Trivia Night will be something different<br />
for the Nature Center.<br />
“We have never done a trivia night<br />
before, and I think all the staff are excited<br />
to try something new. We’ve had<br />
a lot of fun collecting amazing prizes<br />
from generous businesses and putting<br />
together all the questions. Some of<br />
the questions might stump you, so get<br />
ready to test your brain! This will also<br />
be the first event that we hold in the<br />
new Pollinator Paradise addition to<br />
the Dickinson County Nature Center,<br />
and we’re looking forward to people<br />
getting to see this gorgeous new part<br />
of the building and hearing about our<br />
plans for the exhibits in the new addition,”<br />
Roth said. F<br />
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