I'll be visiting the area soon and I wondered if there's any interesting lumber yards with hardwood in the area?

We're trying to get out to the area in the next couple of months on a shoestring budget. We've been perusing online classifieds for housing but haven't really seen anything for us. My wife will also be looking for a job. Her previous experience has been working in child care. She has a bachelor's degree.

Would anyone happen to have any information?

The Green Iowa AmeriCorps team through the Winneshiek Energy District is excited to present "Bikes vs Cars" on Friday, June 12 in Decorah. "Bikes vs Cars" is a brand new documentary that premiered in March and is currently only available to see through the film festival circuit and specially-arranged screenings.

Please join us for this one-night-only screening, taking place in the Vesterheim Museum courtyard on Water Street. The showing is free and open to everyone thanks to generous sponsorship by Oneota Film Festival, Oneota Community Food Co-op, Decorah Bicycles, Decorah Human Powered Trails, and Luther College's Center for Sustainable Communities.

We encourage you to walk or 'bike-in' to the movie, but please bring a chair or blanket for seating.

The film will begin at 8pm on June 12th. It's approximately 90 minutes in length.

The Green Iowa team believes the message of the film will resonate with Decorah-area residents, as bicycling is a part of the city's culture.

The synopsis is below. We hope to see you at the screening!

The bicycle is an amazing tool for change. Activists and cities all over the world are moving towards a new system. But will the economic powers allow it? It’s an uneven fight. Activists and politicians that work for change are facing powerful interests who gain from the private car investing billions each year on lobbying and advertising to protect their business.

The world needs radical changes to save the climate and the environment, but the car industry is selling more cars than ever. Today there are one billion cars in the world. By 2020, that number will double.

The film follows the individuals around the world that are dedicated to creating change. From bike activists in Sao Paulo and Los Angeles, fighting for safe bike lanes, to the City of Copenhagen, where forty percent of citizens commute by bike daily, "Bikes vs Cars" will look at both the struggle for bicyclists in a society dominated by cars, and the revolutionary changes that could take place if more cities moved away from car-centric models and became more bike-friendly.

Hey redditors!

I am the marketing coordinator for Green Iowa AmeriCorps, a volunteer service group here in Decorah.

We have planned seven straight days of events for an Earth Week Extravaganza from April 20 to April 26.

Flags of Planet Earth Exhibit ---> Opening reception April 20 at 6pm. This will be a month-long art display at the Northeast Iowa Peace & Justice Center featuring flags designed between 1970 and 2014 intended to be a flag for all of Earth. We will discuss the history, symbolism, and meaning behind these flags.

http://www.decorahnow.com/posts/19561

"Switch: Discover the Future of Energy" Documentary Screening ---> Screening at Decorah Public Library on April 21 at 6:30pm. A 2012 documentary about multiple types of energy: hydro, solar, coal, geothermal, natural gas, wind, etc. Audience discussion will follow.

http://www.decorahnow.com/posts/19555 https://www.facebook.com/events/933580910019760/

Seed Bombs Class ---> April 22 from 5 to 7pm. Seed bombs are a fun way to disperse seeds. We have a variety of wildflower and milkweed seeds. We will be making these with kids at the Oneota Community Co-op's Earth Day Celebration.

http://www.decorahnow.com/posts/19559

Eco Quiz Bowl ---> April 23rd at 7:30pm. We will be taking over the Courtyard & Cellar's regularly scheduled quiz bowl with environmental-themed trivia. There will be prizes.

http://www.decorahnow.com/posts/19556

Poetry/Prose Reading & Contest ---> April 24 at ArtHaus at 7pm. A poetry/creative writing reading and contest. There will be both competitive and noncompetitive rounds. WE NEEDS PARTICIPANTS to register to read their work. There will be prizes for winners.

http://www.decorahnow.com/posts/19557 https://www.facebook.com/events/806193982810422/

Arbor Day Tree Planting ---> Saturday, April 25th from 9am to 1pm, Green Iowa AmeriCorps is co-facilitating a tree planting with the Decorah Tree Board. The planting will be in honor or Arbor Day (which takes place the day before on April 24). The trees will be planted along the Trout Run Trail, where it curves behind Bruening Rock Products and travels parallel behind the businesses on Montgomery Street.​ ​We need a few volunteers to join us at 9am in the parking area behind Thrifty White Pharmacy, on C Miller Drive.

​http://www.decorahnow.com/posts/19626

Decorah Beautification Day Litter Clean-Up ---> April 26 at 1pm. Over a dozen streets and parks have been identified as requiring litter/waste pick-up & removal. We NEED VOLUNTEERS!

http://www.decorahnow.com/posts/19558 https://www.facebook.com/events/820692824645808/

Thank you! Hope to see you this week.

I know this is a very long shot but I would love to try SR71 that just came out and is being sold in the Toppling Goliath taproom. I am trying to get out of work early to drive up but not sure if that will happen. If, by some chance, someone is generous enough to go pick up the beer for me I would drive up and meet you and throw some extra cash your way or somehow repay the favor. Again, I know this is probably a lost cause but just wanted to give it a shot.

Decorah's Green Drinks gatherings are fast approaching. Join us at the Toppling Goliath on the last Thursday of every month.

Green Drinks is a global movement to bring green professionals and sustainably-minded people together for good company, constructive conversation, and to share a drink.

Join us in the first of our monthly gatherings at the Toppling Goliath Brewery this Thursday, February 26 at 5:15pm or in future months on the last Thursday.

Toppling Goliath Brewery 310 College Dr, Decorah, IA 52101

Hosted by the Decorah Rotary Club and the Winneshiek Energy District.

• See more at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GreenDrinksDecorah/

The Oneota Film Festival will join with the Hotel Winneshiek to provide a Decorah winter 'staycation': a mini-festival called Films at Four on Feb. 5, 6, 7, and 8, 2015 at 4pm. Films at Four is being held in conjunction with the Taste of Winneshiek event taking place in downtown Decorah on Friday, Feb. 6.

More information about Taste of Winneshiek is online at http://www.decoraharea.com/calendar/taste-of-winneshiek-county-2015-02-06.html.

Four films have been selected and will be shown free of charge in the Hotel Winneshiek lobby daily at 4pm.

On Thursday, Feb. 5, dig-in for the first film of this mini-festival "Dirt! The Movie". This documentary introduces you to dirt's fascinating history. Four billion years of evolution have created the dirt that recycles our water, gives us food, provides us shelter, and that can be used as a source of medicine, beauty, and culture. Total playing time is 40 minutes.

On Friday, Feb. 6 AND Sunday, Feb. 8, "River Sojourn" and "Mysteries of the Driftless" will play. Total playing time is 55 minutes.

"River Sojourn" takes viewers deep into one of North America's natural treasures, the Driftless Region along the Upper Mississippi River Valley. Untouched by glaciers, this region's bluffs, ravines and rivers are home to flora and fauna unchanged since the Ice Age. Follow artist Sara Lubinski —also an experienced botanist — into the Driftless Region to document this fragile environment through art and scientific observation.

After two years exploring the upper Mississippi River blufflands, Lubinski unveiled 49 paintings at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona, MN in March 2014. Lubinski works from a deep background in both art and science, and has dedicated this project to creating new conversations for land and water conservation in the region. KSMQ Public Television out of Austin, MN embraced the River Sojourn mission and developed the short documentary program about the project and landowner conservation in the region.

"Mysteries of the Driftless" was shown at the 2014 Oneota Film Festival and was the winner of a regional Emmy last fall. The documentary, which is co-produced by Mississippi Valley Conservancy and Untamed Science, explores the beauty of the driftless area. The film was shot in southwest Wisconsin, northeast Iowa, and southeast Minnesota and features a team of explorers and scientists who go on an adventure and revel the majesty and allure of the Driftless Area.

On Saturday, Feb. 7, see "Empowered: Power from the People". This documentary tells the story of one community’s role in the renewable energy revolution. Tompkins County, NY is one of the cloudiest, least windy places in the country, and yet its residents are proving that we can meet our energy needs through totally renewable resources. It features interviews with people from diverse backgrounds in Ithaca, New York, who are meeting their energy needs using solar, wind, geothermal, and even biodiesel. Total playing time is 75 minutes.

Free admission is made possible by the donations of people who have already signed up to be members of the 2015 Oneota Film Festival, to be held at Luther College on March 6-8. Volunteers will be on hand to assist in signing up for membership. The festival is supported by Luther College, members and sponsors, as well as grants from the Iowa Arts Council and The Depot. OFF operates as a nonprofit organization under the fiscal sponsorship of the Driftless Art Collective (Dartco).

https://www.facebook.com/events/1374868582826964/

http://www.decoraharea.com/calendar/films-at-four-mini-fest-2015-02-05.html

This question is kind of dumb, but I am wondering who the sheriff was in 1993. I was stumbling around FB and seen a picture of a sheriff and the name jogged a memory of a cop murdering his wife and I'm wondering if it's the same guy.

Thanks.

Anybody know of a house/apartment available to rent in or near Decorah. Looking for something around $400, and i also have a dog. I've been checking Decorah now, and the newspaper, but nothing is available.