Get ready to raise your steins and enjoy an epic celebration at our Oktoberfest! We’re transforming our street into an extended beer garden, complete with at least two kegerators outside, pouring a fantastic selection of German-style beers on tap.

🎉 What to Expect:

• Food Trucks & German Eats: Satisfy your taste buds with delicious German-themed cuisine from the "Hot Off the Press" food truck.  "Savor the Rise" will also be serving up mouthwatering pretzels with beer cheese and brats.

• Live Music: Get ready to dance and sing along as Stu and the Polkameisters hit the stage from 5-8 PM, bringing the best of traditional polka and festive tunes.

• Contests & Games: Think you’ve got what it takes to be the Oktoberfest champion? Join in on the fun with our exciting lineup of contests:

  • 1L Stein Holding Contest
  • Log Sawing Contest
  • Hammerschlagen Contest
  • Golden Keg Tapping Ceremony

• Beer, Beer, and More Beer: With at least five German-style beers on tap, you’ll have plenty to choose from as you toast to good times and great company.

Join us for an unforgettable day filled with music, food, and plenty of cheer. Don your lederhosen or dirndl, grab your friends, and come celebrate Oktoberfest the right way—at West Hill Brewing!

The Indianola Downtown Farmers Market is a community event that takes place every Saturday morning on the square outside of the Warren County Justice Center. It provides fresh and locally grown produce at affordable prices, handmade artwork, and many other treats and items to share. In addition to providing support to small businesses, the market also serves as a gathering place for the community. Come and join us to experience the joys of our farmers market starting Spring of 2024!

We don’t have time to do things twice. We also don’t have time to repeat ourselves. So how do we get our messages through the first time? When we’re concerned about the level of risk on a project, how do we get that through to the people who need to be prepared for delays or cost overruns?

When we need additional resources to resolve the issue at hand, how do we get the attention of those who have moved on to other priorities in the business? When the decisions that need to be made have lasting impacts on the health of the organization as a whole, not just the stakeholder who screams the loudest, how do we make sure all of the right people are involved and paying attention?

When we need input from everyone, not just the highest paid person’s opinion, how do we engage all and only the right people? Influencing up has never been more challenging than it is right now, because there are so many competing demands for our attention!

Right now, you’ve already moved on to something else in your head. But come back…Because there’s real pain here, and a need for real solutions. And we can talk through some real solutions. Influencing up is an art and a bit of science. There are tools and techniques that help us. There are some charts and boxes and some proven processes we can follow.

This quick-hit, action packed webinar will give you a set of

• Critical success factors for influencing up in any organization, of any size or scale or industry.
• Three techniques to help you focus your own skill growth where you need it most.
• Practical, easy to apply tips to help you improve your stakeholder interactions to influence up, starting now.

Mark your calendars for September 26th for the Warren County Chamber's Annual Women's Mentoring Event! This event, planned in conjunction with the Carlisle and Norwalk Chambers will be held at Carlisle High School Wildcat Activity Center with special guest speaker, Kim Reynolds!

Register HERE!

The Indianola Downtown Farmers Market is a community event that takes place every Saturday morning on the square outside of the Warren County Justice Center. It provides fresh and locally grown produce at affordable prices, handmade artwork, and many other treats and items to share. In addition to providing support to small businesses, the market also serves as a gathering place for the community. Come and join us to experience the joys of our farmers market starting Spring of 2024!

The Independent Advocate and Warren County Chambers are pleased to invite you to a candidate forum featuring Supervisor candidates for Districts 3,4, and 5 and House candidates for District 21. All candidates have been invited to attend.

Event Schedule:

The forum will be broadcast live on Facebook, with additional coverage by the local newspaper and possibly KNIA radio.

We look forward to seeing you there!

This is Simpson's first time in many years hosting a larger career fair, and this event aims to connect students interested in internships and jobs with employers from a variety of different industries. Simpson encourages our exploring students to attend to learn more about career opportunities and make professional connections. 

This event is free. Due to this, lunch will not be provided but there are eating establishments in the campus center, which is where the event will be hosted.

Employers’ registration deadline for this career fair is September 23^rd at 4 PM. Space is limited and registration will close once it is full. To register, please click here.

Overview
Some meetings - and some meeting participants - are really tough! Gain and practice proven techniques to protect the productivity of the meeting and keep things moving forward well, even in the face of resistance, hostility, apathy, attempted domination, and other unprofessional behaviors. In this full-day workshop, we'll weave stories of disruptive behavior into techniques of how to manage them with grace. Keeping in mind the essentials of any effective meeting and supplementing those critical foundations with advanced techniques to use when the meeting is at a standstill.

Objectives
By attending this course, participants will...

• Practice anticipating and preparing for the challenges that will most likely occur in your meeting environment
• Gain proven techniques as a facilitator to keep your cool under fire
• Practice regaining control in a safe environment, so you can be ready when the next meeting turns unpleasant
• Gain tools you can use to help others manage better meetings

Overview
This lively and highly interactive session will give individuals the critical essentials for getting a project done, regardless of the size or complexity, offering you techniques, concepts, and tools that will save you time and energy right away. This class is designed for individuals who are new to the PM space and need an introduction, or those more seasoned PMs who could use a refresher. This class includes everything you need to know to manage a successful project. Filled with fun activities and plenty of group interaction, this class will introduce you to many topics including, what a project manager is, what a project is, the project lifecycle, and helpful mnemonics. Additionally, participants will walk away with tools they can apply right away

Objectives
By attending this course, participants will . . .

1. Describe a project in a meaningful way –including the “what” and the “why” of it, a summary of the “how” and a prioritized statement of high-priority risks.
2. Describe the road map of project management, include the processes and knowledge areas that contribute to project success, with a focus on stakeholder management through influence regardless of authority:
   • Managing the triple constraint of Scope, Time, and Cost
   • Effective communication management
   • Risk management
3. Describe how the transition process impacts their team, and how projects cause change

Take advantage of our extended hours on the 3rd Thursday of each month to visit the Annett Nature Center!

There may be new things to check out, an activity, or a chance to visit after school and work that might be harder during our regular office hours!