SUNDAY DAILY

SATURDAY WAS ANOTHER BIG DAY IN BEAUTIFUL BELLEVUE ALONG THE MIGHTY
MISSISSIPPI RIVER.    ANOTHER ATTRACTION ALONG THE RIVER WAS DEDICATED
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF THE "FISHTIVAL" THE ANNUAL ART FAIR ALONG THE RIVER.   IT WAS FROM 10 A.M. UNTIL 3 P.M. AND
AGAIN FEATURED MANY ARTISTS, SHOWING AND/OR SELLING SOME OF THEIR
WORK.
ONLY SIXTEEN, AND THERE WILL BE NO MORE,  COMMUNITIES STATEWIDE ARE
GETTING A  PERMANENT  ART EXHIBIT FOR THEIR TOWN,  DESIGNED BY A NATIVE OF THE TOWN.
BELLEVUE DEDICATED THEIRS YESTERDAY.
MAQUOKETA WILL DEDICATE THEIRS IN THE GREEN SPACE SOON.
ALL 16 MUST BE UNVEILED BY THE END OF THE YEAR.
THERE WILL THEN BE A STATE-WIDE BROCHURE WITH ALL 16,  AND TOURISTS WILL
BE INVITED TO VISIT ALL 16 CITIES.
ABOVE, FROM THE NORTHEAST IOWA RC & D OFFICE IN POSTVILLE, MALLORY HANSON, WHO CAME  TO BE PART OF THE DEDICATION.    WITH HER, RONALD K. HANSEN WHO LIVES IN BELLEVUE AND DESIGNED THE TWO FISH STACKS.
MORE FROM THE TOP  PART OF PLAQUE, BELOW.

IN PHOTO ABOVE, NEXT TO ONE OF THE TWO FISH STACKS, AT LEFT, THE CHAIRMAN OF "FISHTIVAL" DAVE EISCHIED OF THE BELLEVUE ARTS COUNCIL....RONALD HANSEN....MAYOR PRO TEM ALLAN ERNST WHO ACCEPTED THE ART PIECE FOR THE CITY...AND MALLORY  HANSON.
EACH OF THE 16 COMMUNITIES RECEIVED  A $5,000 GRANT FOR THEIR DOWNTOWN ART EXHIBIT.    THE TOWNS THEN, FROM LOCAL DONATIONS, RAISED ANOTHER $10,000.

ANAMOSA WILL ALSO SOON UNVEIL THEIR ART EXHIBIT.     ELKADER'S HAS ALSO BEEN DEDICATED.     EASTERN IOWA IS FORTUNATE TO HAVE 4 OF THE 16.

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