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Welcome Blooming Acres to the First Street Community Center

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Blooming Acres Florist and Gifts has opened in the First Street Community Center!  They are one more great reason to come stop by the Old School Shops whenever you can.

They are a full service flower shop specializing in custom floral arrangements for birthdays, anniversaries, funerals, and everyday. Blooming Acres also provide balloon bouquets, candy bouquets, gift baskets, green and blooming plants.

They even deliver! Deliveries are Monday – Friday throughout the Mt Vernon and Lisbon area.

Their gift shop carries a wide selection of candles, soaps, bath and body, gourmet food, wind-chimes, silk flowers, and memorial gifts. Blooming Acres specialize in gifts made in Iowa. They also carry handmade items including quilts, baskets, and photography cards from Mt Vernon residents.

Blooming Acres is also a dealer for Old Town Chalk Paint and Supplies for customers that enjoy repainting furniture and other fun treasures.

They are open Monday 10-3, Tuesday – Friday 9-5, and Saturday 9-2.  They are conveniently located on the ground floor at our East entrance, just off the main parking lot.

For more information please contact Rebecca at (319) 895-6077.

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Celebrate the Performing Arts – An Evening Gala Event

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The First Street Community Center in Mount Vernon Iowa is proudly announcing “An Evening Gala Celebrating the Performing Arts in Mount Vernon, Iowa”.

Put this date on your calendar: Saturday, September 12, 2015.  The gala will start at with a Social Hour from 7:00 – 8:00 pm, then at approximately 8:00 pm the Program will begin.

This event will be held in the Uptown Theatre and will honor Gladys Rife, Frank Benesh, Margaret Ellison, Carolyn Wellso and Barb Shepley.

A limited number of tickets are available at this time – there is NO CHARGE for tickets – please call (319) 535-2030 for ticket information.

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Adult Concert with Dan Bern – Americana / Rock / Folk – Former Mount Vernon Native

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Dan Bern
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Dan Bern is playing in his hometown for the first time!  His Facebook profile states: “If you must put me in a box, make sure it’s a big box…”  You could try to label that big box as “Americana / Roots / Rock / Folk”, but, that would be missing quite a lot still. Bern has toured the US, Canada and Europe since the mid-’90s, and has recorded some two dozen studio albums. He also wrote songs for films such as “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” and “Get Him to The Greek.” He is currently writing songs for a new Amazon cartoon, “The Stinky and DIrty Show!”

Further in his Facebook profile he states:  “Dan Bern is best known for his prolific songwriting and electric live persona. He has released eighteen albums and built a loyal following based on prodigious touring and output of songs in all forms.”

The Washington Post says:  “Dan Bern strums drop-dead gorgeous melodies like a demon with his tail on fire; and expresses his love for humankind through scabrous, literary, skeptical rhymes full of hyper articulation and the tormented self-knowledge of the really, really smart.”

NPR says: “With his acoustic guitar and a batch of witty and insightful songs, Dan Bern is rapidly becoming the voice of a new generation of folk music.”

The Uptown Theatre in the First Street Community Center is thrilled to present Dan Bern in the second of two special shows while he is on tour.

This show is on Sunday, July 26 will be a regular adult show at 7:30pm. Tickets are $15.

Tickets on sale at CarePro Pharmacy & at the door.

You can learn more about Dan Bern at:
His Facebook page
His website

Click here for a playlist of YouTube recordings

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