The Mount Vernon-Lisbon Community Development Group (CDG), a Main Street Iowa organization, will once again offer quarterly Community Leaders Breakfasts throughout the 2023-2024 school year.

All are welcome and no RSVP is required. Those who attend will hear updates from Lisbon and Mount Vernon City Halls, Lisbon and Mount Vernon schools, Cornell College, local service groups, and businesses.

The quarterly breakfast will be held on the following Thursdays:

• October 12, 2023
• February 15, 2024
• April 11, 2024

A buffet breakfast is available for $8.15 per person, plus tax. Please note that Cornell College’s Bon Appetit is cashless, debit and credit cards are accepted.

Free parking at Cornell is available behind Thomas Commons and on First Street.

About the Mount Vernon-Lisbon Community Development Group
The Mount Vernon-Lisbon Community Development Group exists to improve the social and economic well-being of Mount Vernon and Lisbon by capitalizing on their unique identity, assets and character. Mount Vernon was selected as a Main Street community in 2008 and practices economic development within the context of historic preservation.

About Main Street
The Main Street Approach is a copyrighted process of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.  The Program has been used in Iowa since 1986 with a total of 56 communities having participated.  Mount Vernon was selected as a Main Street community on March 4, 2008, by the State of Iowa, after submitting a comprehensive application and presenting to a select board of reviewers.