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Volunteer Open House, 15 May 2011 The Volunteer Open House will be held at Middle Amana Park. This event is to give ALL members an opportunity to hang out, eat, talk, dance, and have some fun. We will be recruiting volunteers for CelticFest 2011 there as well. Why? Because CelticFest 2011 will be held in Amana this year. As such, many things that were covered for us at previous venues (such as portable toilets, fencing, and so on) must be handled by us now. We estimate we'll need roughly 50 volunteers to make the event go smoothly this year! But here's the good part -- if we get 50, we'll have enough that very few people will have to work the entire day of the event! So please volunteer! And if you cannot volunteer...attend the open house anyway. No obligation, we just want to have some FUN! Flickr Photo Galleries  H.A.G.G.I.S. photos past & present Contact Heidi if you have photos to include. Also click for Older Photos

NOW OPEN
The Londoner
Authentic English pub & restaurant.
3325 Center Point Rd NE, (just north of 32nd Street), Cedar Rapids, IA
319-261-3131

HAGGIS member Cindy Gunther visited recently & gave a rave review.  "The menu featured numerous food items we've enjoyed in England, Scotland and at various restaurants and festivals throughout the US. Some of the selections are the Ploughman's Lunch, Sausage Rolls, Scotch Eggs, Shepherd's Pie, Bangers and Mash, Egg Mayonnaise, English Thin Sandwiches, Steak and Ale Pie, English Country Breakfast (served all day)."  There are also British beers on tap.  Plans are to eventually make haggis with the recipe from the  owner's Scottish father!

Check out what
AMES BRITISH FOODS
in Ames, Iowa has to offer!
Tasty grub (& more)  from the British Isles. 
Pies and pasties, bangers, cakes, kippers and haddock, Heinz beans and soups,
Cadbury’s chocolate, crisps, Ribena, Lucozade, teas, teapots and tea accessories, biscuits, beer, hard cider

IRISH DANCE
PROMOTING IRISH HERITAGE & CULTURE THROUGH TRADITIONAL IRISH DANCE
Irish Dance lessons are open to men and women, age 6 and up. Fun for the whole family!    
LOCATION:
The Center (the old post office)
28 S.. Linn Street, Room G13
Iowa City, Iowa

Visit Ghrá na Gaeilge web page

Read
Iowa's Scottish Heritage
by Todd Wilkinson
at the Scottish Tartans Museum page
Includes a picture of Ann Gerdts at the Iowa Tartan Ceremony!

    Flowers of the Forest
In memory of our departed members & friends . . .

Visit the newest Iowa Pipeband
Click for "Turlach Ur"
based in Grinnell
Anne Stapleton has started a highland dance program there in association with the band.

HAGGIS is looking for used bagpipes to supply beginning piping students. 
If you have information on how to obtain used pipes, please contact Ann Gerdts at 

IOWA TARTAN ROSETTES & CHEVRONS  - Ann Gerdts has volunteered to make "Rosettes" for those in Iowa that wish to order them. 
Contact Ann at for information and prices.  She will also make Chevrons for men that want to sport the Iowa Tartan.

See MORE INFO on the Iowa Tartans
 

 

the Iowa branch of S.A.M.S. (Scottish American Military Society) is a growing organization in Iowa. 
 If you are interested in the group, please visit their web page, linked below.

www.clanpiper.com/1846home.html
Iowa Post 1846
Jim Bruce, Commander

Craig Hazelbaker is taking bagpipe students for private lessons.   Contact Craig

Craig is pleased to announce that he has been added to the faculty of the Cedar Rapids Symphony School of Music, to provide instruction on the Great Highland Bagpipe.  To arrange for lessons in the Cedar Rapids - Iowa City area, call the Symphony School at 319--363-3960.  Instruction is available from beginner to advanced.

Craig is also available for performances, workshops and clinics, or custom musical arrangement and transposition.

 See Craig's web site

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