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Ten Gardening Mistakes to Avoid – Virtual Workshop

How to Grow a Salad

Seed to Supper: Virtual Gardening Series

Birds: Attracting and Feeding (Virtual Workshop)

Mahaska County Conservation Volunteer Training

Ten Gardening Mistakes to Avoid – Virtual Workshop

How to Grow a Salad

Seed to Supper: Virtual Gardening Series

Birds: Attracting and Feeding (Virtual Workshop)

Mahaska County Conservation Volunteer Training

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Ten Gardening Mistakes to Avoid – Virtual Workshop

Mahaska Chamber Board and Committee at Eggs & Issues

Daylight Savings Time Begins – A Little History

YMCA Spring Break Day Camp

YMCA Spring Break Day Camp

YMCA Spring Break Day Camp

YMCA Spring Break Day Camp

YMCA Spring Break Day Camp

Eggs & Issues State Representatives

Ten Gardening Mistakes & How to Avoid Them: Whether you have been a gardener for two days or twenty years, mistakes in the garden are sometimes inevitable. There are some mistakes, however which can easily be avoided. Learn how to avoid some common ones this gardening season from Mahaska County Master Gardeners by Zoom Tuesday March…

Learn from Master Gardener Krysta Wendelboe, about how you can grow salad—year round—indoors at a zoom meeting Tuesday, February 9 at 6:30 pm. It is easier than you think! This Zoom meeting is open to anyone wishing to learn about the topic. To register for the zoom call Mahaska County Extension Office 641-673-5841 or email…

Are you a beginner to vegetable gardening or a gardener who wants to learn more? Seed to Supper is a series of educational presentations about vegetable gardening being offered by the Mahaska County Master Gardeners, free and open to the public. Due to COVID restrictions, it will be offered at 6 pm by zoom, with…

Attracting birds to your landscape or feeding birds that visit are popular hobbies many enjoy. Start the year off by learning more about attracting and feeding birds at a Zoom meeting by Mahaska County Master Gardeners on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 7 pm. Zoom isn’t the ideal method for a workshop– but during COVID…

Mahaska County Conservation Volunteer Training Monday, January 11, 2021 10-11:00 am, 1-2:00 pm or 6-7:00 pm Environmental Learning Center Do you like to share a special craft or skill? Do you enjoy volunteering for programs and events or wish to help at the Environmental Learning Center? The Mahaska County Conservation Board is hosting training sessions…

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Ten Gardening Mistakes to Avoid – Virtual Workshop
7:00 PM-8:00 PM
March 9, 2021
https://everythingmahaska.org/event/ten-gardening-mistakes-to-avoid-virtual-workshop/2021-03-09/
Ten Gardening Mistakes & How to Avoid Them: Whether you have been a gardener for two days or twenty years, mistakes in the garden are sometimes inevitable. There are some mistakes, however which can easily be avoided. Learn how to avoid some common ones this gardening season from Mahaska County Master Gardeners by Zoom Tuesday March 9, at 7:00 pm .
This Zoom meeting is open to anyone wishing to learn about the topic. To register for the zoom call Mahaska County Extension Office 641-673-5841 or email Suzette Striegel, Mahaska County Extension Horticulturist (striegel@iastate.edu) by Noon March 8. Those who register will receive a zoom link and handouts.
More information about this and other horticulture events can be found at the Mahaska County Extension Office; 212 North I Street; Oskaloosa Phone 641-673-5841; andwww.extension.iastate.edu/mahaska/yardgarden.htm.

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Mahaska Chamber Board and Committee at Eggs & Issues
8:30 AM-9:30 AM
March 13, 2021
https://everythingmahaska.org/event/mahaska-chamber-board-and-committee-at-eggs-issues/2021-03-13/
Note: Eggs & Issues is being held virtually in 2021. This legislative forum gives area residents an opportunity to learn more about the state, county, and local issues. This week we welcome Mahaska Chamber and Development Group; Chairs of Board and Committees.
If you have any questions please submit to chamber@mahaskachamber.org or at our booth in Smokey Row.
Thank you to Osky News and MCG for providing live streaming and the interviews.

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Daylight Savings Time Begins – A Little History
All day
March 14, 2021
https://everythingmahaska.org/event/daylight-savings-time-begins/2021-03-14/
A Little History: Daylight Saving (also known as Daylight Saving Time and previously known as ‘Fast Time’ in the United States) is the practice of setting the clocks forward one hour from standard time during the warmer parts of the year (usually summer months), and back again in the colder parts (usually fall), in order to make better use of natural daylight so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less.
In the United States, daylight saving was first introduced in 1918 when President Woodrow Wilson signed it into law to support the war effort during World War I. The initiative was generated by Robert Garland, a Pittsburgh industrialist who had encountered the idea in the UK. Today he is often called the “Father of Daylight Saving”. Only seven months, later the seasonal time change was repealed. However, some cities, including Pittsburgh, Boston, and New York, continued to use it until President Franklin D. Roosevelt officially instituted year-round recurring daylight saving in the United States in 1942.
From 1945 to 1966 there were no uniform rules for Daylight Saving in the US and it caused widespread confusion especially for trains, buses, and the broadcasting industry. As a result, the Uniform Time Act of 1966 was established. It stated that DST would begin on the last Sunday of April and end on the last Sunday of October. However, states still had the ability to be exempt from Daylight Saving by passing a state ordinance. In 1974 and eight months in 1975, the United States Congress extended Daylight Saving to a period of ten months, in hopes to save energy following the 1973 oil embargo. The trial period showed that energy equivalent of 10,000 barrels of oil each day were saved, but Daylight Saving still remained to be controversial. Many complained that the dark winter mornings endangered the lives of children going to school.
After the energy crisis was over in 1976, the Daylight Saving schedule in the US was revised several times throughout the years. From 1987 to 2006, the United States observed Daylight Saving for about seven months each year. The current schedule was introduced in 2007 and follows the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which extended the period by about one month. Today, Daylight Saving starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
Source: Calendar-365.com

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YMCA Spring Break Day Camp
All day
March 15, 2021-March 19, 2021
Mahaska County YMCA
414 N 3rd St, Oskaloosa, IA 52577, USA
414 N 3rd St, Oskaloosa, IA 52577, USA
https://everythingmahaska.org/event/ymca-spring-break-day-camp/2021-03-15/
Spring Break Day Camp, March 15-19 from 6 am- 6 pm. Space is limited contact YMCA for more information 641.673.8411.

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YMCA Spring Break Day Camp
All day
March 16, 2021-March 19, 2021
Mahaska County YMCA
414 N 3rd St, Oskaloosa, IA 52577, USA
414 N 3rd St, Oskaloosa, IA 52577, USA
https://everythingmahaska.org/event/ymca-spring-break-day-camp/2021-03-15/
Spring Break Day Camp, March 15-19 from 6 am- 6 pm. Space is limited contact YMCA for more information 641.673.8411.

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YMCA Spring Break Day Camp
All day
March 17, 2021-March 19, 2021
Mahaska County YMCA
414 N 3rd St, Oskaloosa, IA 52577, USA
414 N 3rd St, Oskaloosa, IA 52577, USA
https://everythingmahaska.org/event/ymca-spring-break-day-camp/2021-03-15/
Spring Break Day Camp, March 15-19 from 6 am- 6 pm. Space is limited contact YMCA for more information 641.673.8411.

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YMCA Spring Break Day Camp
All day
March 18, 2021-March 19, 2021
Mahaska County YMCA
414 N 3rd St, Oskaloosa, IA 52577, USA
414 N 3rd St, Oskaloosa, IA 52577, USA
https://everythingmahaska.org/event/ymca-spring-break-day-camp/2021-03-15/
Spring Break Day Camp, March 15-19 from 6 am- 6 pm. Space is limited contact YMCA for more information 641.673.8411.

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YMCA Spring Break Day Camp
All day
March 19, 2021-March 19, 2021
Mahaska County YMCA
414 N 3rd St, Oskaloosa, IA 52577, USA
414 N 3rd St, Oskaloosa, IA 52577, USA
https://everythingmahaska.org/event/ymca-spring-break-day-camp/2021-03-15/
Spring Break Day Camp, March 15-19 from 6 am- 6 pm. Space is limited contact YMCA for more information 641.673.8411.

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Eggs & Issues State Representatives
8:30 AM-9:30 AM
March 27, 2021
https://everythingmahaska.org/event/eggs-issues-state-representatives/2021-03-27/
NOTE: Eggs & Issues is being held virtually this year.This legislative forum gives area residents an opportunity to learn more about the state, county, and local issues. This week we welcome back our State Representatives: Sen. Ken Rozenboom, Rep Dustin Hite and Rep. Holly Brink.
If you have any questions please submit to chamber@mahaskachamber.org or at our booth in Smokey Row.
Thank you to Osky News and MCG for providing live streaming and the interviews.