Events

Hiawatha is a growing, evolving community—its residents and businesses need access to attainable, attractive spaces where they can live and work, raise a family and be a part of something bigger than themselves. By creating a walkable residential, retail and entertainment district that represents the shared ambitions of local residents and businesses, Hiawatha Midtown offers a rare opportunity for the city to build its culture from the ground up.

The result will be a vibrant, welcoming neighborhood featuring a mix of housing types, businesses and green spaces that beautify the city. 

We are looking for about a dozen Metro North Volunteers to help setup (11:30-12:15), serve, and cleanup our 9th annual Metro High School Teacher and Staff appreciation luncheon (first few were breakfasts... but I digress).  I am including a signup to ensure we WILL have help, but more can attend to show your appreciation to this amazing body of dedicated teachers and staff including MetroNorth clubmember Principal Dan DeVore.

Fri May 31

Metro High School -LIBRARY

1212 7th Street SE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52401

- 11:30 setup starting with table cloths on short book stacks 

- arrange tables/seating for about 65 people

- table cloths on all tables

12:00 - HyVee arrives with food, napkins and silverware 

 - arrange placesettings for each table with napkin and silverware.

12:20  Serve (or earlier if setup is complete) 

- ensure platters for buns and cookies are supplied

- ensure milk pitchers are filled

- enjoy lunch with staff after they have their food

12:30 "ish" Administration presentations and meeting

1pm "ish" - cleanup

Here is the invitation each staff member will receive:

In honor of your dedicated service

to the students of Metro High School,

the Rotary Club of Cedar Rapids Metro North

invites you to our annual appreciation lunch:

Friday May 31, 2019

Metro High School Library

Serving 12:20

“Get Ready For Summer” menu:

Pulled Pork sandwiches

Shredded Chicken sandwiches

Baked Beans

Potato Salad

Cookies

We look forward to serving YOU !

Lisa is a volunteer with Friends of International Students CR; the organizations goal is to connect international students studying at Coe College with community members in CR/Marion/Hiawatha for cross-cultural connection. 

Students are matched up with with a community member (family, couples, singles) with the idea that they'd get together on a regular basis (about once a month is the average - some end up getting together more, some less, just depending upon the student and hosts schedules). Sharing a meal or coffee out, cooking dinner together in the community members home, doing "American" things like visiting a pumpkin patch, having Thanksgiving dinner, or taking in a baseball game are some of the activities our students have enjoyed.

Currently the organizaion is working with students at Coe College, and are looking to expand the programs to Kirkwood and Mt. Mercy in the future.

Greg Edwards has been a serial tech entrepreneur in Cedar Rapids since 1998.

His last startup was an offsite backup and disaster recovery company called Axis Backup. Axis was sold to publicly traded J2 Global in 2015, enabling Greg to start WatchPoint, a deception technology cybersecurity business. Greg has a passion for working with privately owned businesses to secure their technology investment. WatchPoint works with clients globally and with prominent local companies like The Accel Group.