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Weekend Happenings in Waukee: Art Class, Baseball, Movie Day and the Zoo

Looking for a little weekend fun in Waukee? Here's what's happening this weekend, July 13-15.

Friday

Teenagers 14-17 are invited to participate in an Exploration in Painting at today beginning at 2 p.m. Taught by Waukee artist Wendy Rounds, cost for the class is $25 and all materials are provided. Young artists are encouraged to wear a smock or old clothing.

Classes for children ages 7-10 are held on Mondays and ages 11-13 on Thursdays. For more information, contact Wendy Rounds at Aloft Gallery, (515) 720-4987.

"Dolphin Tale" at the Waukee Public Library

Get out of the heat and come out to the today for its afternoon movie series. The Library will be showing "The Lorax" today at 2 p.m. The movie is free and open to the public and includes popcorn. Next week's show will be "Puss in Boots."

Waukee Chamber Ribbon-Cutting for Thai Basil

The Waukee Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting a ribbon-cutting for the new Thai Basil restaurant at 286 Highway 6 (Hickman Road) beginning at 2:30 p.m. The ribbon-cutting will be held at 3 p.m.

Attendees are encouraged to RSVP to www.waukeechamber.com/registration.

Waukee High School Baseball vs. Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson

In Class 4-A district and substate play, will face Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson High School tonight at 7 p.m. at Waukee High School.

Waukee is 23-9 heading into the quarterfinals. Thomas Jefferson is 3-26. The winner of tonight's game will play again Saturday in the semi-final round.

Saturday

YMCA Day at the Blank Park Zoo

The Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines and the YMCA of Greater of Des Moines (including the ) are hosting a YMCA Day at the Zoo this Saturday.

YMCA members will be admitted that day for $4 per person. Members must show proof of Y membership at the gate.

The Blank Park Zoo opens at 9 a.m. on Saturday. For more information, visit blankparkzoo.com.

Kick Band with Sydney Lett at Mickey's Irish Pub

Come out and listen to the sounds of the Code Blue band at Saturday at 9 p.m. There is no cover charge to attend.

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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.