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RHCR Theatre 24 Hour Play Festival "Write.Act.Watch." 6th Annual Fundraiser
<h5>Our wildly popular 24 Hour Play Festival & Silent Auction is back on January 25th! All plays will be written, rehearsed, & performed in a 24 hour period. This family friendly event is the kick off to our 2020 Season and is always tons of fun with lots of laughs! This year the event will be at our home space, RHCR Theatre, 1200 2nd Ave SE, Lower Level/Red Doors. The silent auction begins at 6:00 pm and the festival starts at 7:00 pm. </h5> 2019-12-30 22:00:00 -0600
1/25/206:00 p.m.Rich Heritage of Cedar Rapids Theatre (RHCR)Cedar Rapids -
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40th Annual Chili Supper - Scouts BSA Troop 216 North Liberty
<p>NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa – North Liberty Scouts BSA Troop 216 will host its 40th annual Chili Supper from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday, February 1, at the North Liberty Community Center.</p><p>Tickets are $5. Children 5 and under are admitted free. The dinner includes all-you-can-eat meat or vegetarian chili, bread, drinks and a variety of homemade desserts, including traditional Scout cobbler.</p><p>The dinner is the troop’s primary annual fundraising event. Proceeds help cover the cost of high adventure trips, summer camp and other activities for the troop’s ~30 Scouts.</p><p>Tickets are available at the door or by contacting Scoutmaster Kevin Kurka, 665-9076.</p> 2020-01-03 19:00:00 -06002/01/204:30 p.m.North Liberty Community CenterNorth Liberty -
2020 Compeer Sound of Friendship Concert and Dessert Reception
<p>Compeer of Johnson County's 2020 Sound of Friendship Concert and Dessert Reception is holding its annual fundraiser on Feb 29 at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church in Iowa City. Music is provided by local performers that include Kol Shira, UI Pan American Steel Drum Band, Old Capitol Men's Chorus, Kevin B.F. Burt, and Al Zimmerman. Following the concert, attendees enjoy feasting on delicious desserts provided by local businesses. </p> 2020-01-17 21:00:00 -06002/29/207:00 p.m.St. Andrew Presbyterian ChurchIowa City -
Shelter House Book Sale
<p>Check it out! Our annual Shelter House Book Sale will be held on March 28, 10:30am – 4pm and March 29, 12pm – 4pm at the Johnson County Fairgrounds, Bldg. C. We’ll have gently used books plus music, movies, and art for sale. Dedicated book worms can purchase Early Entry passes for admission to the Book Sale before the general public. Passes are $10 and early entry opens March 28 at 10am.</p><p>A book is a gift you can open again and again. Give yourself the gift of action, adventure, mystery, and romance while giving the gift of a brighter future and a place to call home for people experiencing homelessness. Proceeds of our book sale benefit Shelter House programs and support services including housing, employment, and mental health that help hundreds of men, women, and children each year to get back on their feet.</p><p>If you have books you’d like to donate, they can be dropped off at Bldg. B at the Fairgrounds starting February 23 from 2pm – 4pm. Donation drop-off will continue every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday from 10am – 2pm and Sundays from 2pm – 4pm through the week of the sale! **Textbooks, encyclopedias, and magazines not accepted** Please direct all questions to T’Shailyn Harrington at tshailyn.harrington@shelterhouseiowa.org.</p><p><br></p> 2019-12-24 16:00:00 -0600
3/28/2010:30 a.m.Johnson County Fairgrounds, Bldg C.Iowa City -
Community Night at Vue Rooftop
<p>Join Bur Oak Land Trust for a Community Night; 10% of dinner proceeds will be donated to support our local environmental conservation mission. Reservations accepted at 319-519-4650.</p> 2019-12-17 20:00:00 -0600
2/11/205:00 p.m.Vue RooftopIowa City -
Share the Profit Night at Short's Eastside
<p>Join Bur Oak Land Trust for a Share the Profit Night at Short's Eastside. Enjoy the best burgers in town while supporting the</p><p>environment and your community. 15% of Short's profits from dine in and carry out will be donated to Bur Oak Land Trust.</p><p><br></p> 2020-01-23 21:00:00 -0600
3/11/205:00 p.m.Short's EastsideIowa City -
Friends of Hiawatha Public Library Soup-er Bowl
<p>Friends of Hiawatha Public Library invite everyone to warm up with a delicious bowl of soup. A variety of soups will be available, and kids may choose hot dogs and chips if they prefer. In addition, desserts and drinks are on the menu.</p><p>Free will donations are appreciated, and proceeds will benefit adult and youth programming at Hiawatha Public Library.</p> 2020-01-08 19:30:00 -0600
1/24/205:30 p.m.Hiawatha Community CenterHiawatha -
Parks and Recreation Trivia Night
<p>Love the show Parks and Rec? Join us for a 100 question, ten rounds trivia night. All proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society!</p> 2020-01-06 20:30:00 -06001/25/205:30 p.m.Pizza RanchCedar Rapids -
36th Annual Red Shoe Run & Walk 5K
<p>The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Iowa & Western Illinois (RMHC-EIWI) will host the 36th Annual Red Shoe Run & Walk. This event is a family favorite with nearly 1,000 participants, spectators, volunteers, and supporters gathering outside of the Ronald McDonald House of Iowa City to raise funds for the House.</p><p>Gather friends, family, or co-workers and form a team to raise money for RMHC-EIWI. Teams of 10 or more get their group name/logo on the back of their race tee-shirts. We have lots to do for all ages. Ronald’s Run 100-yard dash is a time honored favorite for kids with the Kids Zone including bounce houses, face painting, balloon animals, and so much more.</p><p>Through the Ronald McDonald House of Iowa City and Family Rooms in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, we help remove the barriers that separate families while they receive treatment for a critically ill or injured child. We’re more than just a place to stay—our House and Family Rooms provide the essential comforts of home: warm beds, hot showers, home-cooked meals, kitchen and laundry facilities, a playground, recreation areas, and more.</p> 2019-10-16 12:00:00 -0500
5/03/2010:00 a.m.Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois (RMHC-EIWI)Iowa City -
Iowa City Taste of Achievement
<p>Experience the excitement of bidding on silent and live auction items while savoring specialty food truck items and beverages. Network with friends and enjoy live music while you bid the night away.</p> 2020-01-21 21:00:00 -06005/28/206:00 p.m.The Celebration FarmIowa City -
Cedar Rapids Taste of Achievement
<p>Experience the excitement of bidding on silent and live auction items while savoring specialty food truck items and beverages. Network with friends and enjoy live music while you bid the night away.</p> 2020-01-21 21:00:00 -0600
4/16/206:00 p.m.Epic Event CenterMarion -
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Cookies for a Cause Bake Sale
<p>Come and enjoy a variety of baked goods to help raise funds to spay and neuter pets in need. We will also have our Candy Sundaes for sale. Please stop by to get a sweet treat and support a great cause.</p><p>We provide subsidies for spay/neuter surgeries and vaccinations for pets in need. Last year, we helped 600 animals get the necessary medical care to help keep them healthy and happy.<br><br>If you would like to support our work but are not able to make it to our bake sale, please consider a donation to sponsor a pet in need. Donations can be made online at <a data-lynx-mode="hover" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.paypal.me%2Farfiowa%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR13lRPAv0Nil90xzO8QMSLr3gfVjnwCSplqbq8SLkb6UCC-aoQoffusFh4&h=AT1wE5Ah4mu_TbSbvnTMnB6y2ReABD2rmBcURZyP8kQbYdjQhLNve6URHWi4mC9Iqi4OCovkudvS3jkPLm2LxzDBJtNizqik_PJi46vCrl-atkdn1JIDnsmQAT5p8hqr" href="http://www.paypal.me/arfiowa?fbclid=IwAR13lRPAv0Nil90xzO8QMSLr3gfVjnwCSplqbq8SLkb6UCC-aoQoffusFh4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.paypal.me/arfiowa</a> or checks can be sent to ARF Iowa - PO Box 273 - Palo, IA 52324. </p> 2020-01-22 14:00:00 -0600
2/08/2010:00 p.m.Theisen'sCedar Rapids -
Shrimp & Fish Dinner
<p>Shrimp & Fish Dinner-Urbana American Legion, Friday, January 17th, Serving 4-7:00pm, shrimp, fish, baked potato, baked beans, coleslaw and desserts. Adults: $10.00, Children under 12: $5.00, Preschool: Free. </p><p>3<sup>rd</sup> Friday of Each Month thru April:</p><p align="center">February 21<sup>st</sup>, March 20<sup>th</sup>, & April 17th</p> 2020-02-21 19:00:00 -06002/21/204:00 p.m.Urbana American Legion HallUrbana -
Shrimp & Fish Dinner
<p>Shrimp & Fish Dinner-Urbana American Legion, Friday, January 17th, Serving 4-7:00pm, shrimp, fish, baked potato, baked beans, coleslaw and desserts. Adults: $10.00, Children under 12: $5.00, Preschool: Free. </p><p>3<sup>rd</sup> Friday of Each Month thru April:</p><p align="center">February 21<sup>st</sup>, March 20<sup>th</sup>, & April 17th</p> 2020-03-20 19:00:00 -05003/20/204:00 p.m.Urbana American Legion HallUrbana -
Shrimp & Fish Dinner
<p>Shrimp & Fish Dinner-Urbana American Legion, Friday, January 17th, Serving 4-7:00pm, shrimp, fish, baked potato, baked beans, coleslaw and desserts. Adults: $10.00, Children under 12: $5.00, Preschool: Free. </p><p>3<sup>rd</sup> Friday of Each Month thru April:</p><p align="center">February 21<sup>st</sup>, March 20<sup>th</sup>, & April 17th</p> 2020-04-17 19:00:00 -05004/17/204:00 p.m.Urbana American Legion HallUrbana -
2nd Annual Black and Blue Ball: The Roaring 20's
<p>A magnificent evening filled with a dessert bar, drinks, dancing, a silent auction, and music! Proceeds will go to Tanager Place LGBTQ Youth Center & The Cedar Rapids Rollergirls.</p> 2019-12-16 23:00:00 -0600
2/28/208:00 p.m.Veterans Memorial BuildingCedar Rapids -
Dundee Volunteer Fire Dept. and EMS Steak Supper
<p><strong>DUNDEE FIRE AND EMS STEAK FRY</strong></p><p><em>Grilled by the Delaware County Cattlemen</em></p><p>Saturday, February 29, 2020</p><p>4:30 – 8:00 PM</p><p>Dundee Fire Station</p><p>$15.00/12 oz. Steak, Cheesy Potatoes, Green Beans, Salad, Cookie, Milk, and Water</p><p>$8.00/Hamburger Meal with all the side dishes</p><p>Tickets available from any FIRE/EMS personnel and Local Dundee Businesses</p><p>Tickets also available at the door for an extra cost</p><p align="center"><br></p> 2019-12-18 20:00:00 -0600
2/29/204:30 p.m.Dundee Fire StationDundee -
Hot Soup - Cold Noses Benefit Supper for IHA
<p>All you can eat for $8. Kids under 5 eat FREE. The evening's menu includes Black Bean Chili, Vegetable, Cheddar Broccoli, Wild Rice and Mushroom and Creamy Potato soup, cupcakes, coffee, iced tea, lemonade and more.<br>New This year the event will feature a silent auction to help raise funds for the IHA Painting A Brighter Future Together campaign.</p><p>For more information about this event or the Painting A Brighter Future campaign, visit iowahumanealliance.org or call 319-363-1225. All proceeds go to help Iowa Humane Alliance's mission to end animal overpopulation and euthanasia by providing affordable access to spay neuter services for owned pets, shelter animals and community cats.</p> 2020-01-12 19:30:00 -0600
2/21/205:00 p.m.American LegionMarion -
Otter Creek Lions Club Feb 22 Fish Fry
<p><a href="https://toddvillelegion.com">Feb 22 2020 Otter Creek Lions Fish Fry @ Toddville American Legion Post</a></p> 2020-01-16 19:00:00 -06002/22/204:00 p.m.Toddville American Legion HallToddville -
Otter Creek Lions Club Feb 22 Fish Fry
<p><a href="https://toddvillelegion.com">Feb 22 2020 Otter Creek Lions Fish Fry @ Toddville American Legion Post</a></p> 2020-01-16 19:00:00 -0600
2/22/204:00 p.m.Toddville American Legion HallToddville -
Singing Valentines
<p>This year consider a unique Valentine's Day gift - a singing Valentine performed by a barbershop quartet. Your recipient will be serenaded, given a Valentines Day card and a floral gift. Singing Valentines will be delivered on Valentines Day, Friday Feb. 14 or Saturday, Feb. 15. Complete the form linked below which will be sent to co-ordinators Al & Mary Huneke. For questions, contact them at gpser@hotmail.com or (319) 550-4930.</p><p>Link: <a href="https://forms.gle/8Nt2GG3EU5aqLnNZ8?fbclid=IwAR0RZe9UB4pnHGpQZVyjcGYdJ_ukiHFeFyCsGohahQKb6Qjug22VD0LfTho">https://forms.gle/8Nt2GG3EU5aqLnNZ8</a></p> 2020-01-22 20:00:00 -0600
2/14/208:00 a.m.Various LocationsCedar Rapids -
20th Annual Blues 'n' Buffett Chili Challenge
<p>The Chili Challenge is a family friendly competition between the two sponsoring organizations and local restaurants to raise money for local Cedar Rapids charities. The event offers not only chili tasting, but voting for your favorite chili's, a silent auction and local celebrity judges.<br><br></p> 2019-10-29 16:00:00 -0500
2/09/201:00 p.m.Cedar Rapids MarriottCedar Rapids -
Alburnett Lions 5th Annual Trivia Night
<ul><li><a name="_Hlk535607878">The p</a>roceeds will go to the Lions Club of Alburnett Foundation to help fund <strong>Operation PiratePack, Pirate Meals, & other Community projects.</strong> <strong>Operation PiratePack</strong> provides a nutritious bag of kid-friendly, non-perishable food for children & teens (on free & reduced lunch) on weekends and school breaks. <strong>Pirate Meals</strong> provides extra meals for needy families and individuals in our community during holidays and school breaks. These programs are both available at <strong>no</strong> cost to the parents/guardians or community participants and are <strong>not </strong>funded through the School. You may <strong>register on-line until March 11<sup>th</sup> at <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2020TriviaNight">http://tinyurl.com/2020TriviaNight</a> or contact Jim Carver at 842-2629 or </strong><a href="mailto:jrcarver@fmtcs.com"><strong>jrcarver@fmtcs.com</strong></a><strong> OR Dani Trimble at </strong><a href="mailto:dtrimble@alburnettcsd.org"><strong>dtrimble@alburnettcsd.org</strong></a><strong> for more information. Raffle, Silent Auction & Drawings for door prizes throughout the evening.</strong></li></ul> 2020-01-24 22:00:00 -06003/14/207:00 p.m.Alburnett Community SchoolsAlburnett -
Book Club: Bad Blood
<div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="839lr-0-0"><div data-offset-key="839lr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="839lr-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="3hlq9-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3hlq9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3hlq9-0-0"><span data-text="true">The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="724im-0-0"><div data-offset-key="724im-0-0"><span data-offset-key="724im-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="6n4n5-0-0"><div data-offset-key="6n4n5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6n4n5-0-0"><span data-text="true">In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="d4a3t-0-0"><div data-offset-key="d4a3t-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d4a3t-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="396l9-0-0"><div data-offset-key="396l9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="396l9-0-0"><span data-text="true">For years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. When Carreyrou, working at The Wall Street Journal, got a tip from a former Theranos employee and started asking questions, both Carreyrou and the Journal were threatened with lawsuits. Undaunted, the newspaper ran the first of dozens of Theranos articles in late 2015. By early 2017, the company's value was zero and Holmes faced potential legal action from the government and her investors. Here is the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a disturbing cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="ui4v-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ui4v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ui4v-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="en5af-0-0"><div data-offset-key="en5af-0-0"><span data-offset-key="en5af-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="ab0ue-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ab0ue-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ab0ue-0-0"><span data-text="true">John Carreyrou is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and a nonfiction author. His first book, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, chronicles Silicon Valley's biggest fraud.</span></span></div></div>
2/27/2012:00 a.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -