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<strong>DIS</strong>COVER! | JULY 6, 2024<br />
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Lineup:<br />
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Playbill:<br />
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Sounds:<br />
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Here is a list of who’s<br />
playing where this weekend.<br />
OST offers upKen Ludwig’s<br />
Sherlock Holmes play.<br />
Neil Diamond tribute<br />
concert at Roof Garden Ballroom.<br />
Playbill: Boji Bantam Broadway<br />
Bootcamp set for July 8-13.<br />
I Am, He Said: A Celebration of The Music<br />
of Neil Diamond to take place at Roof Garden<br />
Ballroom in Arnolds Park on July 7.<br />
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Screen: New releases for the<br />
big screen and good new rentals.<br />
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ON THE COVER<br />
Okoboji Summer Theatre to host Boji Bantam Broadway Bootcamp July 8-13.<br />
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Event: Bike Ride Around Spirit<br />
Lake on Saturday, July 13.<br />
Event: Round Lake Winery hosts<br />
Cruisin’ Hog Roast & Car Show.<br />
Sounds: Gary Puckett and The<br />
Union Gap at PLAC July 9-10.<br />
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Other Happenings: Other<br />
must-see area events to check out<br />
Sports: U of O World Tennis<br />
Classic set for July 13-14.<br />
Calendar: Plan ahead with our<br />
list of what’s happening where.<br />
Side Trip:<br />
When it’s the worst of times, I appreciate<br />
how we see the best of<br />
people.<br />
The weather, destruction and high water<br />
levels we all are dealing with now certainly<br />
feel like some of those<br />
“worst of times.” And<br />
yet there are countless<br />
stories of people helping<br />
neighbors, helping<br />
strangers, giving, donating<br />
and volunteering.<br />
Our family helped<br />
friends sandbag<br />
their East Okoboji<br />
Lake home and were<br />
amazed at the volunteers<br />
who showed<br />
up at the bagging site<br />
MYRNA<br />
WAGNER<br />
— some with no connection to anyone in<br />
trouble. They were just there as it was the<br />
right thing to do.<br />
Our family friend and lifelong newspaper<br />
guy, Alan Mores, is a longtime summer resident<br />
of Jones Beach, one of the hardest hit<br />
areas in the Iowa Great Lakes.<br />
He and his neighbors have placed 15,000<br />
sandbags and are still dealing with standing<br />
water long after the flooding has receded for<br />
most people.<br />
Alan has sent out regular text and e-mail<br />
updates as few residents there were able to<br />
remain in their homes.<br />
His messages are news reports, little emotion<br />
and mostly the facts — level of water,<br />
damage to docks, number of pumps and<br />
gallons moved per hour, and what the current<br />
vulnerabilities and needs are.<br />
He shared yesterday that some residents<br />
have ventured out for materials and supplies,<br />
heading south to nearby Spencer.<br />
Even these folks who have lost so much<br />
and are still living in the midst of the aftermath<br />
have compassion and perspective.<br />
Alan writes, “Our problems pale in comparison<br />
to those of the residents of Spencer.”<br />
There is light in the darkness. Don’t give<br />
up hope.<br />
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<strong>DIS</strong>COVER! is your guide to all the special events and activities in the greater<br />
northwest Iowa, southwest Minnesota, southeast South Dakota and northeast<br />
Nebraska areas. It is distributed free throughout these areas.<br />
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