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OFFICIAL
NEWSPAPER FOR
AND
NORWALK COMMUNITY
SCHOOL DISTRICT
Vol. 43 No. 26 Norwalk, Iowa 50211 USPS No. 395-120 Phone 981-0406 email: news@norwalknewspaper.com Thursday, November 17, 2011
Methodists Offer Early Deadline OES Dinner Unofficial Results
For Holiday This Sunday
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Free Thanksgiving Dinner
Members of Norwalk United Methodist Church, 1801 There will be an early Members of Good Will
Sunset Dr., will host a free Thanksgiving Day Dinner, deadline for the December Chapter, Order of the East-
Thursday. Nov. 24. 1St issue of the N/Warren ern Star will host the
Dinner will be served from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Town and County.News. monthly dinner Sunday,
menu will consist of turke mashed potatoes and grav All news items, ads andNov. 20, from 11 a.m. to
rolls, stuffing, pie and beverage, legals will be due prior to 12:30 p.m. at the Masonic
For more information, call the church office at 981- noon Wednesday, Nov. 23. Hall on Main Street.
4251. Due to" the Thanksgiv- The menu includes ham
ing holiday, the newspa- balls, potatoes, salad and
per office will be closed dessert. The cost is $6 per
Thursday and Friday, Nov. person.
24 and Nov. 25. Regular
hours will resume Mon-
Lovell Wins Contest day, Nov. 28.
Rich Lovell of Norwalk won the Third Annual Iowa
Hall of Pride and WHO Radio Contest Friday, Nov.
KC Pancake Vender's Fair
Breakfast At Daily Grind
This Sunday This Saturday
Members of Knights of A Vender's Fair will be
Columbus willhold a Pan- held at the Daily Grind
cake Breakfast Sunday,Coffee Shop, 1128 Sunset
Nov. 20, from8 to 11 a.m. Dr.,~from 8 to 11 a.m. Sat-
at St. John the Apostle urday, Nov. 19.
Catholic Church, 720 Or- Venders will include
chard Mills Dr_ Silpada Designs. Afterlife.
The menu includes pan-Cutzie Tootzie Bows,
cakes, eggs, French toast, Thirty One Gifts and A
sausage, juice, milk and West Photography and
coffee for a free-will dona- DeMgns.
tion. Area residents will
Proceeds are used for have a chance to start
community service projects. Christmas shopping early.
Wine Harvest Celebration This Friday
Area residents are reminded the 5th Annual Wine
Harvest Celebration will be held this Friday, Nov. 18, at
The Wright Place, 340 Wright Rd., in Norwalk.
Doors open at 5:45 p.m. for wine sampling and bid-
ding begins on Silent Auction Baskets. Baskets included
feature Drake, Fareway, FunKids, Hawkeye and Science.
Everyone will get ONE Raffle ticket for a chance to
win a Door Prize which includes car detailing at Holmes
Chevrolet, gift certificate to Bambino's, gift certificate
to Villaggio, gift cardto Casey's, newspaper subscrip-
tion to N/Warren Town & County News, golf at Coun-
tryside Golf Course or $100 in CASH from Four Sea-
sons Auto Wash!
Social hour and appetizers of crustinis with goat/
mascarpone cheese, spinach and pesto dip and caramel-
ized onion dip is from 6 - 6:30 p,m. The meal will be
served from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Featured this year will be
three salads to choose from plus a carving station with
turkey or porkloin. Andy Mogle's Norwalk High School
Culinary Arts Class will prepare and serve the meal.
Dinner music and dessert sampling of assorted trifles,
mini cupcakes and cheesecake bites is from 7:30 - 9 p.m.
with bidding for auction items closing at 8:30 p.m.
Sponsoring the event are Norwalk Area Chamber of
11. The 0n-air contest featured approximately 75 con-Commerce, City of Norwalk, City State Bank and
testants answering 65 questions concerning various per
facts about Iowa, its people ana geography. The top
ten contestants then competed until there was just one
winner. In addition to receiving a large trophy, Lovell
received numei-ous prizes including lodging at a West
Des Moines hotel and meals at a steak house. Al-
though Lovell listened to the contest on the radio last
year, this was his first time entering the event. Staff
photos by Mary Lou Gray.
McClure Engineering Company. Tickets are $25
person and you must be 21 years of age to attend.
See page 11 for silent auction gift baskets.
Universal Children's Day is
Sunday, Nov. 20
For City Election
Warren County Supervisors were scheduled to can-
vass the votes Tuesda Nov. 15, for the November 8
City Election. The Warren County Auditor's office re-
ports the following unofficial results of the election:
On the Ballot
Incumbent Eric Delker 197
Jamie Sylvester 139 - =:,
Herman Riva 133
Write-In Candidates
Incumbent Frank Curtis 154
Pat Wahl 118
With these results, serving on the Norwalk City
Council for the next four years will be Curtis, Delker
and Sylvester.
ADVENT CONSPIRACY
It is hard to believe we are just weeks away from
Christmas. The four weeks preceding Christmas is
called "Advent" which literally means, "coming."
Christmas was intended to be a Christian cegebrafion
remembering the "coming of Jesus Christ." For years
Christmas was a time of reflecting upon God's gift to
the world (Jesus). But something happened. Christmas
has turned hato a commercialized achem~ ,:te~i~-~aod to
get people to buy stuff rather than celebrate the birth of
the world's Savior.
Fellowship Community Church, Norwalk United
Methodist Church and Crossroads Church are, excited !
to be part of,presenting a message series called dvent
Conspiracy,' which has the goal of reclaiming the true i
meaning of Christmas. i
These churches will simultaneously be
studying me
same four themes throughout the season of advent:
worship full spend less, give more and love all. Why
not visit one of these ministries and be a part of redaim-
ing the true meaning of Christmas. Crossroads Church
www.2thecrossroads.com-Worship 9:30 a.m.; Fellow-
ship Community Church www.fccnorwalk.org-Worship
8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. and Norwalk United Method-
ist Church www.norwalkunitedmethodist.org-Saturday
Contemporary Worship 5:30 p.m. and Sunday Worship
8:15 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.
Advent Conspiracy-www.adventconspiracy.org.
Boys Scouts Organize
Toys for Tots Collection
Norwalk Boy Scout Troop 30 and Norwalk Girl Scout
Troop 995 are conducting a joint service project this
holiday season. Youth leadership from both organiza-
tions recently met to explore service project ideas that
could be completed working together. After identify-
ing many project ideas, they decided to first collect toys
to donate to the Toys for Tots program, sponsored by
the United States Marine Corp. Girls and boys from both
units are planning and organizing the event.
Toys and donations for toys will be collected at the
N0rwalk Public Safetv Building, ll00 chamam Ave,,
Saturday, Dec. 3, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A collection box
for toys will remain at the Public Safety Building until
December 9. Additional toys will be purchased with
donated funds and all toys will then be delivered to the
Marine Corp drop-off site in time to be distributed to
deserving kids for the holiday season.
The Toys for Tots program requires that all toys must
be new, in original packaging and unwrapped.
