Emmetsburg Public Library will host Preschool Storytime featuring "Snowy Day" on December 6 from 10:30-11:00 AM.

Story Time with Santa will be held at the Family Life Center at 711 Broadway on December 6 from 4:00-6:00 PM, sponsored by Growing Healthy Kids program of Palo Alto County Community Health and Early Childhood North Central  Iowa.  Admission is free with one canned or boxed good to be donated to the food pantry […]

The Mobile Food Pantry will be at Grace Baptist Church from 5:00-7:00 PM on December 9.

The Emmetsburg Chamber is hosting Holiday Chamber Coffee at the Welcome Center on December 10 from 9:30-10:30 AM.

Don't miss the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast in support of the Emmetsburg Hawkettes Dance Team at the VFW on Sunday, December 12 from 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM.

The Bethany Lutheran Church Sunday School Christmas Program will be held at 10:30 AM on December 12.

Bethany Lutheran Church will host the Glenn Henriksen Christmas Concert on Sunday, December 12 at 2:00 PM.

Classics at the Riviera will be showing “It’s A Wonderful Life” featuring James Stewart and Donna Reed on Sunday, December 12 at 4:30 PM. Classics at the Riviera is sponsored by the Palo Alto County Arts Council with a grant from the Arthur & Audrey Smith Foundation.

Blue Christmas Service, the Annual Community Memorial Candlelight Service presented by Palo Alto Ministerial Association and Hospice of Palo Alto County, will be held on December 12 at 5:00 PM.  Refreshments provided immediate following the service.

The VFW will host a Soup Supper featuring chili, vegetable beef and chicken noodle soups (all homemade!) on December 14 from 4:30-6:30 PM.  The supper is hosted by the VFW and the VFW Ladies’ Auxiliary.  Free will donation.

The Emmetsburg Public Library will host "Truer Words..." Non-Fiction Book Club on December 14 from 5:00-6:00. Discussing For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History by Sarah Rose. Copies of the book are available at the library.

The Emmetsburg Public Library's Nathan Clark presents: "Tasting Robert Fortune's Legacy," a program all about tea, on December 14 from 6:00-7:00 PM. Different types of tea and sweets will be served.