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AHRENS FOUNDATION: Community Support

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: Mentors

FAULCONER GALLERY: Community Outreach

GRINNELL AREA ARTS COUNCIL. Call-In Gallery Docent, Marketing & Administration Assistant, Teacher's Aid, Performance or Reception Usher, Monthly Volunteer Day, Jack/Jill Of All Trades.  

GRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: Clinic Courier, Patient Tray Favors, Patient Activity Projects, Information Desk, Mailings, Auxiliary Gift Shop, Surgery Waiting, Breakfast Services Cashier, and Pediatric Orientation. 

IMAGINE GRINNELL Local Foods, Energy & Conservation, Grinnell Area Recreation Trail Expansion

IOWA TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM: Information Desk Docent

MICA: Head Start and Early Head Start Classroom volunteers, EITC Tax Preparer, EITC Translator, and Food Pantry Volunteer.

PALS. Dog Walker, Clean/Feed Animals, Play with Animals 

POWESHIEK HISTORY PRESERVATION PROJECT: Historical Preservation

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF GRINNELL (SEG): Loan Recipient Partners, SEG Committee

TOUR GUIDES AT THE LOUIS SULLIVAN BANK/ GRINNELL VISITOR CENTER: Docents 

ARBORS APARTMENTS 

EXIT-HULS REALTY  

GRACIE PARK APARTMENTS 

GRINNELL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 

GRINNELL REALTY - Click Here for July 10 open house information. 

GRINNELL RENTAL PROPERIES - Contact  Ron Edgington at 641-990-6463for available properties

GRINNELL RENTALS

NOBIL ENTERPRISES

RAMSEY-WEEKS

RE/MAX PARTNERS REALTY 

SEAJAE PROPERTIES

• Plate Baker's new sign looks wonderful, as do the new signs at Gamers and Solera.
• Please go eat at Relish. It's not easy having road construction blocking you on all sides. Let's do a cash mob there, shall we?
• The Fix cinnamon rolls are out of this world.
• Make sure you buy your ducks and your golf balls-the GRMC Auxiliary's golf ball drop and the Galaxy's Duck Derby are both this weekend.
• Congrats to Grinnellian Paul Durr, the new owner of Prairie Canary.
• Still time to sign up for the one and only luxury RAGBRAI charter, hosted by Bikes to You.
• QPS is hosting a big job fair in Grinnell tomorrow. If you're looking for a job in the area, make sure you stop by.
• Don't feel like cooking? Swing on into Flowers By Dzyne and pick up a frozen meal from Memories Maid (and get some chocolates while you're at it). 
• Pick up a copy of the Grinnell Business Journal (the newest version of The Hub).
• It's perfect weather to go to the pool! And it's "the place to pick up chicks" according to five teenage boys.
• The new sock wall at Sports Page is really cool. 
• Malcom Lumber's new building looks amazing.
• What do you think about downtown valet parking? We think that sounds world famous.
• The new house on Reed St. being built by Griffith Homebuilders looks fantastic.
• Ridiculous Day sidewalk sales are a week from Saturday, July 19.
• Vintage Treasures on Main St. is filled with antiques and vintage finds. (formerly Main St. Consignment and Annabelle's Attic). 
• Gamers is filled to the brim with video game and some cool and unique board games your family & friends would enjoy.
• Solera's food and wine is to die for. Definitely worth a visit. 
• We are so lucky to have first-run movies at the Strand. Take the family to a movie, and definitely check out the free merchant movies they are hosting this month.

JOB FAIR will be on July 10 from 11a.m. to 3p.m. at Country Inn & Suites where QPS is recruiting for over 100 positions. 

FARMERS MARKET is every Thursday from 3 to 6 pm and Saturday from 10 to noon in Central Park.  

MUSIC IN THE PARK is every Thursday at 5:30pm in Central Park.

 YOGA IN THE GALLERY with Jackie Hutchinson is every Thursday at through September 4. 

BOOKIN' IT AT THE DRAKE will be July 10 at 7p.m. at Drake Library. 

DRAKE COMMUNITY LIBRARY STORY TIME will be July 10, 17, and 24 at 1:50p.m. at the Grinnell Mutual Family Aquatic Center. 

"EDWARD BURTYNSKY: WATER" starts July 11 at Faulconer Gallery.

WINE AND CHOCOLATE PAIRING EXPERIENCES are every Saturday and Sunday in July from 10a.m to 6p.m. on Saturdays and 12 to 6p.m. on Sundays at Tassel Ridge Winery.

GRMC GOLF BALL DROP is July 12 at Oakland Acres beginning at 4p.m. Live music by Cody Hicks to follow. To accomodate parking there will be a shuttle service from Iowa Valley Community College, Grinnell - to Oakland acres, on the half hour from 3:30-5p.m. And then return from Oakland Acres at 6p.m. and 7p.m.

POWESHIEK COUNTY FAIR is July 12, 15-21 at the Poweshiek County Fairgrounds. 

DUCK DERBY is July 13 at 12p.m. at the Grinnell Mutual Family Aquatic Center. 

ECUMENICAL VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL is July 13-17 from 6 to 8:15p.m at Grinnell United Methodist Church.

FAULCONER ARTS OUTREACH IN THE PARKS is July 14 from 10:20a.m. to noon at Ahrens Park Shelter 1. 

GRMC SE*ED PROGRAM will be on July 14 at 10a.m. and July 21 at Drake Community Library.

2ND ANNUAL ELITE SKILLS ACADEMY BASKETBALL CAMP is July 14-15 for girls at Iowa Intensity Youth Sports. 

FINAL SUMMER ARTS ACADEMY CLASS will be on July 14, 16, 18, 21, 23, & 25 from 7 to 8:30p.m. by Grinnell Area Arts Council. 

GRINNELL COMMUNITY MEAL is every Tuesday from 5:45 to 6:30pm in Davis Elementary School.  

STRAND MERCHANT MOVIES are every Tuesday and Wednesday through August 6. 

IOWA BICYCLING HISTORY is July 16 at 2p.m. at Spaulding Center for Transportation. 

MOVIES UNDER THE STARS is July 18 and August 8 after dark at 9p.m. at Grinnell College. 

is July 18 from 10:30a.m. to noon at Poweshiek County Fairgrounds. 

GAMERS GRAND OPENING is July 18-19. Giveaways every hour, trivia, photo booth, treats and an epic selection of new & retro video games, systems, & accessories as well as board games and small electronics.  

RIDICULOUS DAY is July 19 from 7a.m. to 2p.m. around Grinnell. Come out for Grinnell's summer shopping event!

FRIDAY FESTwill be August 1 in Downtown Grinnell from 7 to 10p.m.  

Midsummer Scrub & Loft Theatre Completion will be on August 2 from 9a.m. to 12p.m. and 1 to 4p.m. at the Arts Center.