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Back to Life – Back to Reality – BACK TO SCHOOL
Thursdays on Main event to help Kids & Families in Need BY: RACHEL WUMKES There are not many activities less enjoyable in life than shopping for school supplies. I mean, it’s supposed to be fun and exciting. Parents everywhere should be rejoicing, right? Wrong. It’s awful. Typically stationed in small areas within...
Come to the North Iowa Fair!
August 4-7th at the Iowa Events Center in Mason City BY: RACHEL WUMKES The tail end of summer can be a bit of a doozy. Siblings have hit their limit with one another, finding new ways to fight about absolutely nothing. Parents are stressed to the gills, trying to squeeze in the last bit of summer memories for their...
Life is a Highway
CLASS Car Cruise & Show a Hit in Clear Lake BY: RACHEL WUMKES As I began to work on today’s blog post, it took me all of three minutes to realize I know absolutely nothing about cars. In fact, my knowledge pretty much starts and ends with “turn the car on, go forward, don’t run into things.” And honestly, sometimes...
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...