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12/13/2025
🍎 POP-UP FOOD PANTRY — THIS MORNING - PLEASE SHARE!
The Muscatine Mobile Food Pantry still has boxes of food available and wants to get them to families who can use them!
🗓️ Today (Saturday, Dec 13)
🕐 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
📍 Muscatine Church of Christ — 3603 Mulberry Ave
Park in the lot or pull up under the portico, then come inside to sign in. Volunteers will help load your box.
First come, first served. One box per household, while supplies last.
Already picked up a box this week? That's okay — if your family could still use more, please come!
12/12/2025
🍎 POP-UP FOOD PANTRY — TODAY!
The Muscatine Mobile Food Pantry was able to secure an extra 200 boxes of food this month and wants to get them into the hands of families who can use them.
🗓️ Today (Friday, Dec 12)
🕐 1:00 - 4:00 PM
📍 Muscatine Church of Christ - Address in comments
Please pull up and come in the front door to sign in and get your box. First come, first served. One box per household, while supplies last.
Also, stay tuned for information on another full mobile food pantry currently scheduled for Monday, December 29th.
Can't make it today but need a box? Email [email protected] to see if another time can be arranged.
12/05/2025
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT 🎄
Pearl City Jingle & Mingle kicks off at 5:30 and we've got something new this year—the Holly Jolly Hunt.
It's a digital scavenger hunt built right into your phone. No app download needed - we'll put the link in the comments. Create a quick account, and start collecting points as you stroll. Check in at locations, snap selfies with giant inflatables, answer trivia, and climb the leaderboard. Top finishers win prizes from downtown merchants.
Don't miss:
🌟 Community Christmas Tree Lighting powered by Muscatine Power and Water at MidWestOne Bank (5:30 PM)
❄️ Ascentra Credit Union Frozen Photo Booth with Anna and Elsa
🌟 Muscatine Power and Water Light Extravaganza powered by their electric truck
❄️ Musco's Holiday Light show on the Muscatine Bridge
Plus live music, free hot chocolate, cookie decorating, raffle baskets, tinsel hair for the kids, soup suppers, Santa photos, and ten giant holiday inflatables scattered across 6 blocks.
🎄 TOMORROW. 5:30 PM. Yes, we're doing this. Santa has confirmed he'll be at Tiny's Tunes Entertainment waiting for you!
It's going to be cold. Bundle up anyway. Downtown Muscatine comes alive for Jingle & Mingle tomorrow night—tree lighting at MidWestOne at 5:30, Muscatine Power and Water 's Mobile Light Extravaganza at 2nd & Sycamore, Anna and Elsa at Ascentra Credit Union 's Frozen Photo Booth and Musco Lighting 's Bridge Light Show kicks off for the season (tune to FM 87.9).
NEW THIS YEAR: Our scavenger hunt app and compete for prizes as you stroll. Check in at locations, snap pics, answer trivia. It's free, it's fun, and it gives you a reason to keep moving. Click JOIN THE HUNT NOW! at the top of the Jingle and Mingle website to get ready!
Join us the first Friday of December from 5:30-8:00 pm in Downtown Muscatine for 6 blocks of holiday cheer, entertainment, shopping, friends and refreshments!
12/01/2025
Muscatine’s Mobile Food Pantry is expanding to meet the need for December — they'll provide 800 food boxes for families on Tuesday, Dec. 9 (1:30–7 p.m.) at Muscatine Church of Christ . Reservations open today (Monday) at noon on the Muscatine Church of Christ website.
We’ve got all the details on RSVPs, drive-up boxes, traffic flow, and how to volunteer in our latest story.
📲 Read the full article, reserve a box or volunteer! — link in the comments.
11/17/2025
18 days out - December 5th is coming fast.
If you haven't been to Jingle & Mingle yet, here's what you need to know: it's 6 blocks of downtown Muscatine completely taken over by lights, music, hot cocoa, a giant snowman wandering around, and about 5,000 of your neighbors. 5:30 to 8 PM. Totally free. More info at link in the comments with full interactive map, digital scavenger hunt and schedule of events coming!
We keep it free because local businesses step up to sponsor. Got a few spots left if your business wants in—shoot us a message.
Otherwise, just show up. Bring the kids, bring your mom, bring whoever. It's cold, it's festive, it's the official start of the holidays around here.
See you there!
11/13/2025
✨🎄 The magic of Jingle & Mingle is almost here! 🎅💫
For one night only, downtown Muscatine turns into a living Hallmark movie — six blocks of lights, laughter, cocoa, and community.
💡 Friday, December 5th | 5:30–8:00 PM | Downtown Muscatine
🎅 Free Santa photos at Tiny’s Tunes
🎶 Music, characters, and holiday treats
❄️ Over 40 local businesses spreading cheer
We were able to open about 50 more reservation spots for next week’s Mobile Food Pantry!
If you missed your chance to sign up earlier, you can try again now - link is in first comment!
We’ll also have about 150 boxes available the day of the event, first come, first served, starting at 1:30 PM.
How it works:
✅ If you RSVP online and get a confirmation email with your QR code, you’re already checked in — just come straight to the church by entering from the north via Tipton → Bayfield → Mulberry.
✅ If you don’t RSVP, stop first at the Palms Theater parking lot to sign in before being sent to the church for pickup.
✅ Everyone’s welcome — we always set aside some day-of boxes for anyone who needs them.
Thank you for your patience as we grow and roll out new systems. Each month we’re working to make things faster, smoother, and easier for everyone. 💙
Join us for Pantry Pickup Day — part of the Muscatine Mobile Food Pantry, hosted by Muscatine Church of Christ in partnership with River Bend Food Bank and ...
11/06/2025
In partnership with Riverbend Food Bank, our local food pantries, and the Food Collaboration group of Muscatine, we’re launching Feeding Muscatine — a new website that brings together everything happening around food in our community.
From pantry schedules and volunteer opportunities to ways you can help your neighbors, Feeding Muscatine is here to connect you.
Whether you’re looking for a little extra help or looking to lend a hand, this is where Muscatine comes together to make sure everyone has a place at the table. 🍽️
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If you look at the history of Muscatine, it’s been a community that thrives when it exports products and ideas. Whether it’s lumber, pearl buttons, office furniture, grain products, retread tire processes or any other of the products and services Muscatine has exported from this quiet river town, we as a community, have always found a way to not just survive but thrive.
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