Community Page

The City of Mount Vernon is a great place to raise a family! The community comes together to celebrate many annual events and the city has a Community Wellness Center known as the Lester Buresh Center (LBC). The City of Mount Vernon boasts 7 parks, a swimming pool, a disc golf course, a 9-hole golf course, and a community athletic complex. Please see the links below for all of the upcoming events and exciting things to do in Mount Vernon.

The following items are not Mount Vernon Community School District sponsored unless otherwise stated. It is being distributed through the school district as a community service of the district to inform you of other community activities or services available.   Click on the  boxes below to open them up for additional information. 

Area Summer Sports Camps – We’ll post here as we receive info
Bass Farms Events

Bass Farms is open Year Round

Click on link below to check out Events at Bass Farms

https://www.bassfarms.org/

 

 

Boys Scouts/Cub Scouts

Year Round

click here for the website

Early out Child Care Program

St Paul Lutheran church in MV is offering an early out child care program.  Contact them directly for more information.  319-895-8772.

We are just letting you know it’s available.

City of Mount Vernon

click here for the City of Mount Vernon Website

 

 

Girl Scouts

Girl Scout Troop 1966 Silver Award Project – the troop is collection donations for the Catholic Worker House for use in their Emergency Housing Shelter.  They are asking for all kinds of cleaning products.  See the flyer below for more information and a list of needs.

Collection info flyer

 

Year Round

click here for a link to the Girl Scouts website

 

 

2024 Kirkwood Golf Camp

Attached is the Kirkwood Golf Camp brochure. this is open to  students ages 9-14.

https://www.kirkwoodeagles.com/fan-zone/golf_camps

Lester Buresh Center (LBC)
Check out the Summer Programs at the LBC.
Sign up now to join the fun at https://mtvernon.recdesk.com/Community/Program
Check out the flier below for some summer fun!
Music Works Iowa – music lessons
Julia Andrews, the owner of Music Works Iowa offers music lessons in town to 95 local students.  See the flyer below for more information if you are interested in music lessons.
Mount Vernon Parks & Recreation

Click here for the Website to the Mount Vernon Parks & Recreation and events

 

Mount Vernon-Lisbon Child Care Solutions Group

The MVL Child Care Solutions Group along with Iowa Resource and Referral is hosting an -informational meeting on June 3rd in hopes of increasing the number of registered in-home daycare providers.

Informational flier

Orchestra Iowa

Click here for events with Orchestra Iowa

Click here for lesson info from Orchestra Iowa

Click here for information on Orchestra Iowa Chorus

Pioneer/Corteva Agriscience summer job opportunity for students

Attached is a flyer for students to check out and see if they are interested in the summer work we offer at Pioneer/Corteva Agriscience located between Marion and Alburnett. We hire those that are 14 years of age and older. Last year we hired 122 pollinators and were lucky enough to have even have a wait list. We hope to hire even more this year! We are hiring for Pollinators. This is not detasseling; it’s easier. But the work is still completed in a corn field. The field is located right here in Marion, so no bussing is required.

Pioneer Flyer

Southeast Linn Community Center
Summer is quickly approaching and SELCC has tons of FREE summer Fun scheduled for kids in our community. We have activities planned every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons.  NEW THIS YEAR: we will be offering FREE LUNCH (11:30 – 12:30) every Thursday in June. Anyone who needs a meal is welcome to attend and stay for the kid movie after (starts at 1:00) if they’d like.
With all of these activities going on, we are going to need plenty of extra hands!
I wanted to let you know of an exciting STEM Day opportunity that is happening here in our community. This is the second annual event of the Community STEM Day. We enjoyed all the response last year and hope for an even more participation this year. This event being hosted by SE Iowa STEM Council and will take place on Thursday July 18th from 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM it will be located at the Collins Aerospace campus. This event is STEM themed and will be geared towards kindergarteners through 12th graders. We will have market style booths set up outside with fun and engaging activities for students of all ages. We will have workshops such as robots, prosthetic hands, drones, light-up cards, and lab tours available (these will require pre-registration, it will open beginning of June) please see the attached flyer for distribution.  We will also have a large variety of Food Trucks, they will be serving breakfast, lunch, and snack foods for you to purchase so you want have to leave all the fun you will be having.
For more information you can check :  https://se.iowastem.org/stem-festivals

Information for Students and Families

Quick Links

Key Contacts

Patty Mote

Middle School Secretary

319-895-6254