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6 Facebook Pages You Should ‘Like’ if You Live in Waukee

Waukee's churches have embraced social media as a way to connect with members and prospective members. These pages keep you in the know and expand your reach.

Waukee Community Church

What's to like: This welcoming site is a chatty bulletin board, with notes and requests for resources on projects like last week's Faith in Action Day. It even has a recent note from a member requesting a favorite song to be performed at a service.

Waukee United Methodist

What's to like: You can't miss a church function if you're checking this page — Cub Scout pancake breakfast time and date; teen youth group cabin fever outing; Meals for the Heartland fundraiser — it's all on the page.

Waukee Baptist Church

What's to like: If you've misplaced your church bulletin, you can find some of that information on the Facebook page. From reminders on special events and youth group activities to photos of Christmas play practice and teen event — it's a way to keep in touch beyond Sunday services.

Westwind Church

What's to like: The page combines details on events like special Easter services with photos of youth events including Bingo Bowling, Spin-Tacular Basketball and an Amazing Chemistry Show.

Point of Grace Church

What's to like: This active page nudges members to sign up for classes and events such as adult baptism or taking part in the Meals for the Heartland, and an all-church work day. But this newsy site also offers links to Christian music, and even boasts a recent video from the church's child-care center. 

Waukee Patch

What's to like: We may be biased but Waukee Patch is a one-stop source of information. Stop by and tell us what you want to read on Patch or just contribute to the conversation. We're listening.

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Julia Ziesman June 12, 2013 at 10:28 pm
Could one of the reasons for the population loss in rural Iowa be the lack of decent paying jobs?Read More There are large portions of rural Iowa where there are minimum wage jobs without benefits. Wal-Mart has replaced many small businesses in rural counties. Many of their workers need welfare to survive. The welfare programs that Wal-Mart workers rely on include Medicaid, subsidized housing and food assistance. Meanwhile Wal-Mart and other corporations are setting records for corporate profits. A May 2013 report “The Low-Wage Drag on Our Economy: Wal-Mart’s Low Wages and Their Effect on Taxpayers and Economic Growth” shows how their business model exerts downward pressure on wages. Should we continue to support a created taxpayer-funded social welfare program by corporations? Raising the minimum wage could help alleviate those programs.
Maria Houser Conzemius June 13, 2013 at 11:14 am
Julia Ziesman, I boycott Walmart for the reasons you listed. American taxpayers subsidize Walmart'sRead More low wages and poor benefits with $2.1 billion a year. Collectively, Sam Walton's heirs contributed a whole $6,000 to charity. I looked up the three class-action lawsuits against Walmart that I knew about and found 71. Many lawsuits against Walmart are to try to make courts enforce their many rulings against Walmart. I was really upset when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to allow Walmart women workers' lawsuit against Walmart to proceed as a class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit that shocked me the most was that of a 33-year-old handicapped woman in a wheelchair who wouldn't believe that Walmart had shaved her time card hours in order to pay her less than the pitiful hourly wage she should have earned. Her lawyers had to produce documents to prove to her that Walmart was really that unethical.