October/November 2017 TO DO LIST Clean up the yard October 2nd 2-7pm more info on page 4 Fire prevention week October 14 & fireman’s breakfast more info on page 4 Great Pumpkin Giveaway October 14th More information on page 3 Council meeting 7:30pm City Hall October 9th

Sign up for programs Information on Page 5 @ Library go watch Halloween October 31st 1pm parade on Main

go Trick or Treating October 31st 6pm—8pm

**Turn Clocks back** November 5th

**Go Vote ** November 7th Member list on page 2 Pick up Chicken Noodles and November 7th Methodist Church goodies For Dinner More information on page 3 Council meeting 7:30 pm City Hall November 13th

EAT TURKEY Happy Thanksgiving!! WATCH FOOTBALL November 23rd Explore History SAHA information on page 6 Meet the board members

Planning and Zoning Commission City Council Members Trond Forre Chair Mayor Gary Halverson Jane Fideler Mayor Pro Tem Steve Ransom Kevin Holmes Susan Erickson Brant Strumpfer John Kahler Laura Weems Ken May Library Board Ann Sobiech-Munson Gregg Jeffryes, Chair Joel Newman With the election on November 7th Liz Gifford Slater has 3 seats at large currently Scott Huisinga held by May, Erickson and Sobiech- Julie Astarita Munson. Plus the Mayor seat. Linette Connell Kathy Reece

Parks and Recreation Board Colin Chinery, President, Secretary ELECTION DAY Jonathon Thompson, Vice President Shawn Birdsall November 7th Make sure you get out and vote. Cindy Beougher Your vote is your voice. Kelli Payne Slater Polling place is the Log Cabin 305 Benton

Annual Chicken Noodle Dinner Slater United Methodist Church is having their annual Chicken noodle dinner on Tuesday November 7th from 11am—7pm.

They will also be having a bake sale during same hours.

Adults $9 Children (12 and under) $3.50

Please remember to vote and come join us for wonderful food and goodies

Slater American Legion Post 260 City Hall Holiday Hours: Thanksgiving: Is planning a fall fund raiser Closed November 23rd and 24th to replace 260 worn flags that Christmas: are flown on patriotic days Closed December 25th and 26th such as Memorial Day, 4th of

July and Veterans Day. Watch New Years: for future announcements. Closed January 1st Beggar’s night for Fireman’s Slater will be Breakfast Saturday, October Tuesday October 14th 6am –10 am

31st Slater Fire station 6pm - 8pm Biscuits and Gravy, eggs, hash browns and bacon. Have a safe and Free Will donation HAPP-BEE HALLOWEEN

Oct 8th—14th is Fire Fall Prevention Week Branch This is a good time to clean up change the batteries in day your smoke detectors Monday, October 2nd 2pm-7pm And Bring branches to the City lot at the corner review your family of 1st Ave and Greene. escape plans in case of Please no Leaves or grass a fire. Firemen will be “training” the elementary students this week with rides around town on the fire trucks, complete with sirens!! November 5th

Book & Bake

105 N Tama 515-228-3558 www.slaterlibrary.org Sale

The Friends annual fall book and bake sale Soup and will start on Saturday, October 21 at 9 a.m. and run until Wednesday, September

Sound Lunch 28. Please bring donations of baked goods Our next Soup and Sound Lunch is on Friday the 20th before 5 p.m. scheduled for Friday, October 6. Pat Crawford will play piano for us as we enjoy lunch served from 11:30 a.m.- 12:30 Book Club p.m. The book club has planned their fourth Free will donation. All ages annual fall book club day trip for welcome! October 19. This year they travel to Mason City, Iowa to tour the historic Menu: Chicken and Vegeta- restored Melson House, home of Slater ble Soup native Peggy (Newman) Bang. The rest with Roll and Dessert of the day includes visiting the Frank Historical and the Music Man Square. A lively discussion of the book Loving Frank by Nancy Horan, is planned during lunch. Space is limited so reserve your spot today. Free Programs Book Overview: “I have been standing on the side of life, Soup and Sound Lunch– Friday Oct. 6, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. So writes Cheney in her diary as she Yoga - Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 a.m. struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with . Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her Story time - Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of Early-Out Program - Wednesdays from the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the 1:30-3 p.m. lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock Book Club Trip – Thursday, Oct. 19 Chicago society and forever change their lives. Coffee – Fridays at 10 a.m. In this ambitious debut novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a footnote in the life of America’s greatest architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Cheney’s profound influence on Wright.” -barnesandnoble.com SLATER HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION NEWS [email protected] www.slaterhistory.org 515-228-3832 See Us on Facebook

The Great War Exhibit on Display A Tuneful Acquisition!

Leaving Home, from the Great War Exhibit The Slater Area Historical Association now has on exhibit Our new player piano and some of the rolls of tunes “The Great War - Slater and Story County in World War One” More fun for us, this terrific gift from Sharon Zagar, her much in which Slater and Story County are described and their treasured player piano and the real treasure, dozens of rolls of experiences displayed during the war years of 1917 and music from all eras. We already have found tunes from WW1 1918. SAHA used soldiers’ letters, mementos from Slater to complement our Great War exhibit. It really tells a story of residents, and newspaper clippings of the era to recount life our history for the last 100 years. Thanks to Sharon and to at home with its tragedies and its patriotism. Kevin Brooks and South Story Bank and Trust for assisting in The Great War is on exhibit now through 2017, the move to the Hall. commemorating the 100th anniversary of the conflict. Come visit this personal story of the war.

About Our Exhibits We have a museum full of great permanent displays that can entertain and inform our visitors. We’re featuring one of our favorites this month. Come visit! The Slater Panorama

The Slater Depot from the Panorama Exhibit Viewing the Slater Panorama

On exhibit in our new addition is this scale model of the west side of Slater during the 1950’s when there were two railroads with passenger trains, the Slater Co-op Creamery, Hobo Jungle along the tracks, and the Slater Nite Hawks ball field, all created to scale and all at kid eye level. Kids can hunt for the hobos along the track, the graffiti on the ball fence, the passengers on the benches outside the depot, the privy along the edge of the tracks…a great exhibit Our hours are now Thursdays 10-2 and Wednesdays 6-8 but we can be available for your visit. Just call 515-480-9789 or 515-228-3293. Heritage Hall Museum, 318 1st Avenue Slater Just to inform you… We are not now and have not been using The City of Boone/ Xenia water since December of 2015. We will be using it for a few days as we clean our water tower . Since we will be using it we have to inform the public that their water system recently violated a drinking water standard. This is the notice we received from the DNR.

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