Event Briefs for the week of Wednesday, March 19

Ken Sidey cleanup day

Adair County Conservation has scheduled a cleanup day for the Ken Sidey Nature Area for 1-5 p.m. Sunday, March 23.

Grab a pair of gloves and help pick up debris left in the park after the May 2024 tornado. Meet at the main Ken Sidey parking lot. The plan is to have volunteers pick up debris and make piles next to the mowed walking trails to be picked up at a later date.

Greenfield Library bookmark contest

Design a bookmark at the Greenfield Public Library for National Library Week! Winners' bookmarks will be printed and available at the library during National Library Week (April7-12).

Use pencils, crayons, or markers to decorate the bookmark available at the library’s Facebook page and turn it in by March 28. All ages are welcome to participate

American Legion Fish Fry

The Head-Endres American Legion Post 265 welcomes the public to their annual Fish Fry 4:30 p.m. Friday, March 28 at The Gathering Place, 102 SW Kent, Greenfield.

Come for the fish fry, stay for the desserts! Cost is $10 per plate.

NV Fine Arts Night

Various fine arts students at Nodaway Valley will showcase their talents in the annual Fine Arts Night, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 28 at the Warren Cultural Center.

The program will include various musical and speech selections as well as food served by the family and consumer sciences class and visual arts displays in the WCC’s main floor gallery.

Montag to play at WCC

Carol Montag first began singing and performing music at an early age at her hometown church in Ames. She will perform Saturday, March 29 on the Warren Cultural Center stage, the fifth show of WCC’s 2024-25 “All Iowa Series”.

Montag’s original compositions deal with a diverse range of subjects that listeners of all ages can relate to — from silly to serious with songs about man-in-the-moon nights, love and longing, babies and dishes, fathers, families, little boys and Barbie dolls. Concerts include originals, traditional and contemporary folk, classic songs from The Great American Songbook and gospel. Montag has a boundless, expressive voice, a luminous stage presence, supported and reinforced by a strong guitar style. Her songwriting style is reflective of her refreshing musical curiosity.

Tickets are $20 for adults with free admission for students high school and younger. Order tickets at warrenculturalcenter.com or buy them at the door.

Cinderella coming to WCC April 5

Area residents will have the chance to see one of Iowa’s premier performing arts organizations when OPERA Iowa, Des Moines Metro Opera’s educational troupe, arrives 7 p.m. Saturday, April 5 to present Rossini’s “Cinderella” (sung in English), at the Warren Cultural Center.

Over the past 39 years, the OPERA Iowa Educational Touring Troupe has performed in 10 states throughout the region and even in Japan and China, spreading the joy of opera to more than 1 million students and adults. OPERA Iowa is an Education Division program of Des Moines Metro Opera, which is located in Indianola.

Tickets are $20 for adults with free admission for students (high school and younger). Order tickets at warrenculturalcenter.com for this sixth show of WCC’s 2024-25 “All Iowa Series”.

Legislative Coffees planned

State Rep. Ray “Bubba” Sorensen’s office announced he will be at legislative coffees that are upcoming across the area during the 2025 legislative session.

Coffees currently scheduled are as follows:

• 10 a.m. April 4 at The Dugout Cafe in Orient

Another legislative coffee or two may be scheduled at a later time. The newspaper will do its best to print the time, date and location of those events when they are announced.