LIFT WC, in partnership with Spangler Automotive, will host a community End of Summer Block Party this Saturday on the 700 block of Second Street and will include a bags tournament and an outdoor concert featuring local artists. Monies raised…
Music once again will fill the former Elks Club ballroom this weekend as LIFT WC hosts another evening of local talent. The event will be held Sunday, June 23 from 5 to 7 p.m. Darcy Swon, LIFT WC board secretary,…
Blue skies and warm temperatures greeted visitors and local residents who turned out for Junquefest Friday, Saturday and Sunday in downtown Webster City, More than 60 vendors displayed their wares, while food sellers offered a variety of dining choices. The…
Darcy Swon and Lindsay Henderson, members of the LIFT WC board of directors, donated a selection of kitchen items from the former Elks Building to All Cultures Equal. ACE officials are working to develop a commercial kitchen at the ACE building. Accepting the…
Local residents and visitors to Junquefest this weekend will have a chance to tour an historic building that a nonprofit organization hopes to turn into a venue for educational, social and cultural events. Local Initiative for Transformation Webster City LLC…
During JunqueFest in Webster City, a limited number of handcrafted bluebird birdhouses will be for sale for $60 with all monies to go to help LIFT WC restore the Elks Building. The birdhouses were handcrafted from Red Cedar and donated by…
An architectural firm has been hired to find ways to restore the exterior of the former Elks Club building in downtown Webster City. The two-story masonry building at 713 Second St. was built in 1906. It’s now owned by the…
The Webster City High School trade students and their instructor, Joel Kennedy, visited to the Elks Lodge Building Monday morning to go through materials uncovered over the weekend. The group was able to take some of the items back to…
Workers with LIFT WC carry out junk and sort different types of metal, salvage, and trash at the former Elks Club building on Webster City’s main street. The nonprofit organization was recently formed, and took possession of the building this…
A long-overdue polish will begin this month on a junk-filled building that is a rough diamond on Webster City’s mainstreet. The former Elks Club building, 604 Second St., is the first project that Local Initiative for Transformation WC LLC, or…