Bits & Pieces

Haas Chiropractic Clinic and the Mason City Noon Rotary club get the kids off to school with all the supplies they need.

The School Supply Drive -- spear-headed by Dr. David Haas and Haas Chiropractic Clinic and supported by the Mason City Noon Rotary Club --was a great success this year, raising $1,312!

$1,197 was spent for backpacks pre-filled with school supplies. Dr. Haas donated the remaining $115 directly to the Mason City School District to buy more supplies should they be needed.

Over 6 TUBS! of mixed school supplies were donated to the Mason City Schools, with 12 additional backpacks going to the North Iowa Christian School for individual students in need.

If you would like to donate to the School Supplies Drive, please Contact the Mason City Noon Rotary, or Dr. Haas ... your donation is greatly appreciated!

Club Picnic

August 4th, 2007

Our club picnic was held at Central Gardens in Clear Lake on Monday the 4th. A good time was had by all in spite of the rainy weather. Members from the Sunrise and Clear Lake clubs joined us as well.

For more on Central Gardens and their latest sculpture, check out Ann Kuhlman's recent press release ...

Central Gardens
Latest Sculpture

The latest sculpture addition to Central Gardens of North Iowa is a beautifully unique sundial created in honor of Bill Killpack, known as "Mr. Rotary". The butterfly designed sundial was appropriately placed in the Butterfly Garden named by Roger and Gail Harringa.

Sundials served as ancient timepieces. This particular sundial pattern was created by H. Milton Duesenberg from a design he and Bruce Vrchota had made for a large metal and rock sculpture located in northeast. Duesenberg explained that what is important to a sundial is the sloping edge on top called a gnomon.

"The edge has to be straight and the base has to be level and horizontal," he said. "The angle is based on the latitude of Clear Lake, 43 degrees 9 minutes, which makes the gnomon parallel to the pole of the earth and the time is based on Central Standard Time," Duesenberg described.

Laurence Fredriksen of Fredriksen Welding and Mike Connor did the execution of the butterfly design in wrought iron with J.B. Barnhouse of Country Stone Masons, carving the Iowa limestone base. Julie and Bruce Steinberg of North Iowa Collision donated the refinish painting.

The sundial was made possible by major donations from Mason City Sunrise Rotary Club, Mason City Noon Rotary Club and from individual Rotary members, former employers and friends of Bill Killpack. Killpack was a past President of the Mason City Noon Rotary and District Governor of 5970 Rotary. He had over thirty years of perfect attendance at Rotary. He loved Central Gardens of North Iowa so much that he served on the fundraising committee up until the time of his death. Area Rotary Clubs have helped in creating many of the unique features in Central Gardens, which will be enjoyed for generations to come.

For more information on making a gift to Central Gardens, please contact:

Capital Campaign Chairs Jim and Ann Kuhlman (641-423-3592)

Honorary Chairs Bob and Donna Furleigh (641-357-4097)

Or the Central Gardens office at (641-357-1938)

Updates on site progress can be viewed at www.central-gardens.org