more info on page 4 Fire prevention week & fireman s breakfast

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1 October/November 2017 Clean up the yard TO DO LIST October 2nd 2-7pm more info on page 4 Fire prevention week & fireman s breakfast Great Pumpkin Giveaway Council meeting 7:30pm Sign up for Library go watch Halloween parade on Main go Trick or Treating October 14 more info on page 4 October 14th More information on page 3 City Hall October 9th Information on Page 5 October 31st 1pm October 31st 6pm 8pm **Turn Clocks back** November 5th **Go Vote ** Pick up Chicken Noodles and goodies For Dinner Council meeting 7:30 pm November 7th Member list on page 2 November 7th Methodist Church More information on page 3 City Hall November 13th EAT TURKEY Happy Thanksgiving!! WATCH FOOTBALL November 23rd Explore History SAHA information on page 6

2 Meet the board members Planning and Zoning Commission Trond Forre Chair Jane Fideler Kevin Holmes Brant Strumpfer Laura Weems Library Board Gregg Jeffryes, Chair Joel Newman Liz Gifford Scott Huisinga Julie Astarita Linette Connell Kathy Reece City Council Members Mayor Gary Halverson Mayor Pro Tem Steve Ransom Susan Erickson John Kahler Ken May Ann Sobiech-Munson With the election on November 7th Slater has 3 seats at large currently held by May, Erickson and Sobiech- Munson. Plus the Mayor seat. Parks and Recreation Board Colin Chinery, President, Secretary Jonathon Thompson, Vice President Shawn Birdsall Cindy Beougher Kelli Payne ELECTION DAY November 7th Make sure you get out and vote. Your vote is your voice. Slater Polling place is the Log Cabin 305 Benton

3 Annual Chicken Noodle Dinner Slater United Methodist Church is having their annual Chicken noodle dinner on Tuesday November 7th from 11am 7pm. They will also be having a bake sale during same hours. Adults $9 Children (12 and under) $3.50 Please remember to vote and come join us for wonderful food and goodies Slater American Legion Post 260 Is planning a fall fund raiser to replace 260 worn flags that are flown on patriotic days such as Memorial Day, 4th of July and Veterans Day. Watch for future announcements. City Hall Holiday Hours: Thanksgiving: Closed November 23rd and 24th New Years: Closed January 1st Christmas: Closed December 25th and 26th

4 Beggar s night for Slater will be Tuesday October 31st 6pm - 8pm Have a safe and HAPP-BEE HALLOWEEN Fireman s Breakfast Saturday, October 14th 6am 10 am Slater Fire station Biscuits and Gravy, eggs, hash browns and bacon. Free Will donation Oct 8th 14th is Fire Prevention Week This is a good time to change the batteries in your smoke detectors And review your family escape plans in case of a fire. Firemen will be training the elementary students this week with rides around town on the fire trucks, complete with sirens!! Fall Branch clean up day Monday, October 2nd 2pm-7pm Bring branches to the City lot at the corner of 1st Ave and Greene. Please no Leaves or grass November 5th

5 105 N Tama Soup and Sound Lunch Our next Soup and Sound Lunch is scheduled for Friday, October 6. Pat Crawford will play piano for us as we enjoy lunch served from 11:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. Free will donation. All ages welcome! Menu: Chicken and Vegetable Soup with Roll and Dessert Free Programs Soup and Sound Lunch Friday Oct. 6, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Yoga - Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 a.m. Story time - Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. Early-Out Program - Wednesdays from 1:30-3 p.m. Book Club Trip Thursday, Oct. 19 Coffee Fridays at 10 a.m. Book & Bake Sale The Friends annual fall book and bake sale will start on Saturday, October 21 at 9 a.m. and run until Wednesday, September 28. Please bring donations of baked goods on Friday the 20th before 5 p.m. Book Club The book club has planned their fourth annual fall book club day trip for October 19. This year they travel to Mason City, Iowa to tour the historic restored Melson House, home of Slater native Peggy (Newman) Bang. The rest of the day includes visiting the Frank Lloyd Wright Historical Park Inn Hotel and the Music Man Square. A lively discussion of the book Loving Frank by Nancy Horan, is planned during lunch. Space is limited so reserve your spot today. Book Overview: I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock Chicago society and forever change their lives. In this ambitious debut novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a footnote in the life of America s greatest architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Cheney s profound influence on Wright. -barnesandnoble.com

6 SLATER HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION NEWS A Tuneful Acquisition! See Us on Facebook The Great War Exhibit on Display Leaving Home, from the Great War Exhibit Our new player piano and some of the rolls of tunes More fun for us, this terrific gift from Sharon Zagar, her much treasured player piano and the real treasure, dozens of rolls of music from all eras. We already have found tunes from WW1 to complement our Great War exhibit. It really tells a story of our history for the last 100 years. Thanks to Sharon and to Kevin Brooks and South Story Bank and Trust for assisting in the move to the Hall. The Slater Area Historical Association now has on exhibit The Great War - Slater and Story County in World War One in which Slater and Story County are described and their experiences displayed during the war years of 1917 and SAHA used soldiers letters, mementos from Slater residents, and newspaper clippings of the era to recount life at home with its tragedies and its patriotism. The Great War is on exhibit now through 2017, commemorating the 100 th anniversary of the conflict. Come visit this personal story of the war. About Our Exhibits We have a museum full of great permanent displays that can entertain and inform our visitors. We re featuring one of our favorites this month. Come visit! The Slater Panorama The Slater Depot from the Panorama Exhibit Viewing the Slater Panorama On exhibit in our new addition is this scale model of the west side of Slater during the 1950 s when there were two railroads with passenger trains, the Slater Co-op Creamery, Hobo Jungle along the tracks, and the Slater Nite Hawks ball field, all created to scale and all at kid eye level. Kids can hunt for the hobos along the track, the graffiti on the ball fence, the passengers on the benches outside the depot, the privy along the edge of the tracks a great exhibit Our hours are now Thursdays 10-2 and Wednesdays 6-8 but we can be available for your visit. Just call or Heritage Hall Museum, 318 1st Avenue Slater

7 Just to inform you We are not now and have not been using The City of Boone/ Xenia water since December of We will be using it for a few days as we clean our water tower. Since we will be using it we have to inform the public that their water system recently violated a drinking water standard. This is the notice we received from the DNR.

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