| Valley Community Calendar |
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2010 VALLEY CALENDAR OF EVENTS Every Saturday through the school year - TEEN OPEN HOUSE AT THE VCC CENTER. This is open to Junior High and High School Valley Community School students. The center is open from 7-10 pm at 240 Center St in downtown Elgin. Thursdays, May 13 - through October - Elgin Town and Country Market SEPTEMBER OCTOBER Saturday, October 2 - Turkey River 5K Run Sunday, October 17 - Elgin Lion's Pancake breakfast at the Elgin Legion from 9 AM to 1 PM Saturday, October 30 - Children’s Halloween Party NOVEMBER Sunday November 7 - The Illyria Community Church will be having their annual Veterans Dinner on at Illyria church. For more information, please contact Judy Bennett by email at jbennett@alpinecom.net DECEMBER Sunday, December 4 - Santa’s Workshop and Christmas Party Thursday, December 2 - Downtown Businesses Holiday Open House, Gift Drawings, Craft/Bake Sale Saturday, December 11- Christmas in the Valley Dinner Theater |
| Elgin Community Betterment Club Meeting Dates 2010 Jan 21 Feb 18 March 18 April 15 June 17 July 15 August 19 September 16 October 21 November 18 December 16 "As always, thank you for your support and we hope you will continue to support our efforts with your membership and gifts. We also, again, encourage you to join us if you haven’t done so in the past, and invite you to add your ideas and help at our meetings the third Thursday of each month." |
| 2010 - ELGIN COMMUNITY BETTERMENT CLUB Dirk Torkelson, Donna Peterson, Co-Chairpersons / Sara Strong, Secretary For more information contact: Al Seabrooke, Treasurer - 11829 Agate Road, Elgin, IA 52141-8045 or ajseabr@alpinecom.net Exciting changes are in the works for the future of Elgin. The Elgin Community Betterment Club called together approximately 60 residents of the community in November of 2007. From that gathering the Elgin 2023 initiative developed. Now the community is partnering with Trees Forever, Shive-Hatterly Architectural Design firm, the MSA group, and the Elgin City Council to create the design to change and improve our community. During this period Elgin became part of the Turkey River Corridor project, which is the plan of the communities of Clermont, Elgin, and Elkader to create a river trail and a recreational trail system that will connect the three communities. In the process the “Corridor” has been designated an Iowa Great Place, and with it the availability of grant funds for the projects involved. Already the first trail is funded and construction will begin from the Nims bridge north of Clermont to Elgin. That is expected to begin in 2010. The Corridor steering committee will be seeking other grants for the remainder of the recreational trail and the creation of the water trail. These are seen as positive economic developments for the area which will bring in tourist trade and create opportunities for jobs and small business start ups. Members of the ECBC are actively involved in these endeavors, and the ECBC has and will continue to give financial support where possible. The ECBC continues to sponsor local activities as it has in the past. We will support the Christmas season events, the children’s programs at Easter, Halloween, and Christmas, the Miss Elgin contest, the town wide cleanup day, the expanded northeast Fayette County garages sales, Sweet Corn Day, and the Town and Country Market, Plans are being developed to further expand the garage sales to include all of the communities within the River Bluffs Scenic Byway in northeast Iowa. In 2009 the ECBC membership reached 66, our biggest support group in the period since the ECBC became an active community advocate. Our revenue for 2009 was down slightly from 2008, and consequently we spent less on community projects. We discontinued the Thursday Music-in-the-park when we saw that attendance didn't’t warrant the continuation of that activity. We decided to forego Sweet Corn Day in years of the Elgin Homecoming celebration. We plan to have the renewal of Sweet Corn Day in 2010, and the date is noted on the events calendar below. We again invite you to join in our monthly lunch meeting at the library meeting room. The meeting convenes at 11:30 a.m. If you have a computer and an email address we will keep you abreast of the business conducted at the meeting by sending the monthly minutes via email. There is a place on the enrollment form which accompanies this letter to include the email address. Approximately 130 invitation letters will be mailed again this year. We hope to increase our numbers again and surpass the 66 of 2009. Please join us. Keep watching the Elgin website, www.elginiowa.org for information about your community, and use the website to advertise the events in which you are involved. It’s free. Contact Al Seabrooke at 426-5678 or ajseabr@alpinecom.net to place a calendar item on the website. |
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