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New Life at the Historic Park Inn
Hotel Debuts New Bar & American Tavern BY: RACHEL WUMKES Just a bit of a jaunt down the highway to the East of Clear Lake, you’ll find The Historic Park Inn Hotel. Located in the heart of Mason City, this 27-room boutique hotel is their most famous building as it is the only remaining Frank Lloyd Wright designed and...
Harvest Festival Souvenir Bag Presale Alert!
Don’t Miss Out on the Ultimate Girls’ Day! BY: RACHEL WUMKES Time to break out the shackets and wide-brimmed hats, ladies. Today is all about Harvest Festival! Wait. What? Seems a bit odd as we are smack-dab in the middle of having all the summer fun. But you see, it appears we blink, and the next big Clear Lake event...
Bye, Bye Miss American Pie
The Day the Music Died BY: RACHEL WUMKES A long, long time ago… Fifty years to be exact. A young singer/songwriter named Don McLean, looking to make his mark on the music industry, penned those words. Little did he know the impact they would have on the world – and how we’d still be singing them all these years later....
Visit Three Stars Plaza
Visit Three Stars Plaza, the City Park that remembers Rock 'n' Roll icons Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and JP "The Big Bopper" Richardson. As you travel along beautiful North Shore Drive, you’ll notice a futuristic-like structure near the iconic Surf Ballroom. It’s not a bird, or a plane, and while it looks a bit like a...
Let’s Go on a Treasure Hunt!
Geocaching in North Iowa BY: RACHEL WUMKES Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the...
Clear Lake Art Sail Resurrection!
After a two-year hiatus, this spectacular event is back! BY: RACHEL WUMKES When the Clear Lake Arts Center wrapped up the 2019 Art Sail event, there was no way to know the massive detour they would soon take. Closings. Cancellations. Modified exhibits. But finally, after a two-year hiatus, this beloved event is making a...
Ballet Des Moines Summer Tour
Coming to Clear Lake! BY: RACHEL WUMKES The definition of ‘dance’ is to move one’s feet, body or both rhythmically in a pattern of steps. Most of the time, this is done to the beat of music playing. Dance has been used for exercise, to gain skill for a career, and to express emotions. Sometimes, you just feel the music...