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ROCHESTERfamilies.com - Newsletter #113
October 5, 2007
Welcome to the ROCHESTERfamilies.com weekly newsletter.
Each week the newsletter is brought to you by the
ROCHESTERfamilies.com Family of Advertisers (Rochester Area
Family Y, Bob Miller - Magician!, Olive Juice Studios, Tim
& Sandy Williams Coldwell Banker Burnet).
A special thank you goes out to the ROCHESTERfamilies.com
October Advertiser of the Month - Olive Juice Studios. Find
out more about Olive Juice by visiting the
ROCHESTERfamilies.com Our Advertisers webpage,
www.rochesterfamilies.com/Rochester_MN_advertisers.html.
Can’t get enough of ROCHESTERfamilies.com? Check out our
Family Time and Family Calendar columns in Friday’s
Post-Bulletin’s Lifestyle section where you can read all
about the next week’s Fire Station open houses (stop by and
learn how to design your own home escape plan). You’ll also
find information on the NAMI’s ADHD community presentation,
St. Francis of Assisi’s Fall Festival, Stories for Toddlers
and Twos at the Library, and Cans for Kids (take your
aluminum cans to Ronald McDonald House this Saturday!).
Also tune into the Tracy McCray show, 1340 KROC-AM, Friday
mornings at 9:43 a.m. for a quick ROCHESTERfamilies.com
rundown of this weekend’s family-friendly events.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
This week you could… feed some critters, check out a fire
truck, register for three ROCHESTERfamilies.com Great
Giveaways (see below for more info) … and much more! For
more information on the events listed below - or the more
than 100 events listed this month - visit our Calendar of
Events, www.rochesterfamilies.com/page/page/1049874.htm.
With all events, please remember, dates change, weather
happens, and events are sometimes moved, postponed,
or cancelled. It’s always a good idea to call ahead (or
visit the host organization’s website) and confirm all
details.
Friday, Oct. 5
• Story Time @ ABC&Toy Zone
Saturday, Oct. 6
• Rochester Downtown Farmers Market
• What's up with this kid? - workshop
• Story Time @ ABC&Toy Zone
• Hooray for Saturday! Cricket in Times Square - Rochester
Public Library
• Prairie Seed Collection @ Chester Woods
• Parent/Child Class @ Prairie Walls Climbing Gym
• Cans for Kids fundraiser
• Feed the Critters @ Oxbow Park
• Minnesota Ice Hawks Home Game
Sunday, Oct. 7
• St. Francis of Assisi Fall Festival
• Bird Sunday @ Quarry Hill - Sparrow Surprise
Monday, Oct. 8
• NAMI presentation on ADHD
• Story Time @ Christian Gift & Book
• Story Time @ B&N (Apache)
• Bob Miller Magician @ Dos Amigos
• Sit-Stay-Read @ Rochester Public Library
Tuesday, Oct. 9
• La Leche League Mtg. - Austin
• Story Time @ Great Harvest
• Teen MOPS mtg.
• Bob Miller Magician @ Good Sport Bar & Grill
• Parent/Child Class @ Prairie Walls Climbing Gym
• Circle of Parents
• Fire Station Open House
• Mothers & More Mtg. - Open House and 20th Birthday
Celebration
Wednesday, Oct. 10
• Wee Wednesdays @ Sargent's - Pumpkins, Pumpkins... Oh My!
• Educator Personal Shopping Day @ B&N(Apache)
• 3-5 Year Old Story Time @ Rochester Public Library -
Registration Deadline
• Story Time @ B&N (Apache)
• Fire Station Open House
Thursday, Oct. 11
• MOPS @ Rochester Assembly of God
• Stories For Toddlers And Twos @ Rochester Public Library
• Bob Miller Magician @ O'Neill's Pizza Pub
• Women and Mental Illness documentary - Rochester Public
Library
• Fire Station Open House
Friday, Oct. 12
• Story Time @ ABC&Toy Zone
Saturday, Oct. 13
• Rochester Downtown Farmers Market
• Citizen Forester Workshop provided by RNeighbors
• Super Saturdays @ Sargent's Gardens - Squirrel Cafe
• Story Time @ ABC&Toy Zone
• Hooray for Saturday! Pop Wagner - Rochester Public
Library
• Naturalist Choice @ Oxbow Park
• Parent/Child Class @ Prairie Walls Climbing Gym
• Campfire Tales @ Chester Woods
• Minnesota Ice Hawks Home Game
Sunday, Oct. 14
• Critter Sunday @ Quarry Hill - Totally Turtles
Fall/Winter Fun webpage,
www.rochesterfamilies.com/fall_winter_rochester.html
Tons of new stuff on the Fall/Winter webpage. Check it out
for info on: Quarry Hill's Halloween Happening, Santa at
Apache Mall, RYSA registration, and much more.
October Great Giveaways
Free passes to Tweite’s
Tweite's Pumpkin Patch has been planting memories
and harvesting fun for the past 18 years! Tweite's is
open Sept 29 through October 28, Saturdays and Sundays as
well as during MEA. Admission to Tweite’s is $8. Gate
fee includes everything including the new Dino
Dig. Tweite's also has fall decorating items
(think decorative gourds, corn stalks, and bales of hay)
and a concession barn filled with tasty treats (homemade
caramel apples, kettle korn, cotton candy, and much more).
Tweite’s Pumpkin Patch is giving away two more free
tickets. To enter, send an email (no later than Thursday,
October 11) to lindy@rochesterfamilies.com Please put
Tweite’s in the Subject Box. The winner will be selected by
a random drawing. A gift certificate will be mailed to the
lucky winner. Thanks to the Tweite’s Pumpkin Patch for
providing this Great Giveaway! To find out more about
Tweite’s visit www.tweite.com. (where you can register for
their great giveaway).
KTTC Lights @ Bluff Valley
Lights@Bluff Valley is sponsoring a
ROCHESTERfamilies.com Great Giveaway this week and for the
next three weeks! Four lucky ROCHESTERfamilies.com readers
will win a Lights@BluffValley (open Oct. 18-Nov. 25) gift
certificate, good for 1 vehicle admission (up to seven
people in the vehicle), 2 adult meals at the dinner buffet
(ages 13 and up) and 2 youth meals at the dinner buffet
(ages 5-12). To enter the Great Giveaway, email
lindy@rochesterfamilies.com. Please put Bluff Valley in the
subject box. You only need to email once to be eligible to
win any of the four weeks. Thanks to Lights@BluffValley for
providing this Great Giveaway. To find out more about this
one-of-a-kind lighted maze experience, visit
lights@bluffvalley.com.
Free Creative Memories GIft
Angie Hanson is offering a free Creative Memories gift.
Creative Memories offers a variety of products to help you
celebrate your memories. The Creative Memories Motto is:
Your Life /Your Story /Your Way. From traditional
scrapbooking albums and decorative supplies to digital
software and StoryBook photo books that help you showcase
your digital images, we want your life to be beautifully
shared and celebrated! This is why Creative Memories
Independent Consultant, Angela Hanson, is giving you a FREE
Creative Memories gift. To find out more about Creative
Memories and everything they have to offer, visit
Angie's website at www.mycmsite.com/angiehanson.
To register, email lindy@rochesterfamilies.com by
Thursday, Oct. 26. Make sure you put Creative Memories in
the subject box.
GREAT GIVEAWAY WINNERS
Free tickets to the BFG
And the winner it..... Jodi G. is the lucky winner of two
free tickets to the Masque Youth Theatre’s Fall Production
of The Big Friendly Giant. Performance dates: October 19,
20, 21, 26, 27 and 28. Thanks to the Masque Youth Theatre
for providing this great Great Giveaway! To find out more
about this production visit www.masque.org.
Free passes to Tweite’s
And the winner is..... Jessica T. is the lucky winner of
two tickets to Tweite’s Pumpkin Patch. Thanks to the
Tweite’s Pumpkin Patch for providing this great Great
Giveaway! To find out more about Tweite’s visit
www.tweite.com.
ROCHESTERfamilies.com October Advertiser of the Month
ROCHESTERfamilies.com ADVERTISER OF THE MONTH "Say
Cheese." No, you say you don't want to. That's
okay. Because at Olive Juice Studios kids don't have to
say cheese, sit still, look at the camera, or even smile
if they don't want to. The result. Great pictures that
parents love because the kids in the photos look like
the ones they know and love every day.
Olive Juice Studios, a photography business that
specializes in weddings and babies/children, offers
black-and-white, color, and canvas prints;
custom-designed baby books; Hey Baby! packages (4 photo
shoots in baby's first 18 months for only $199); and more!
To find out more about Olive Juice Studios
visit, www.OliveJuiceStudios.com or
www.rochesterfamilies.com/Rochester_MN_advertisers.html. A
big thank you to Olive Juice Studios for advertising on
ROCHESTERfamilies.com!
ROCHESTERfamilies.com's "Family Of Advertisers"
And a big thank you to all of our advertisers - Magician
Bob Miller (www.BobMillerMagic.com), the Rochester Area
Family Y (www.rochfamy.org), Olive Juice Studios
(www.olivejuicestudios.com), and Tim & Sandy Williams,
Coldwell Banker Burnet (www.rochesterhomes4you.com) - for
advertising on ROCHESTERfamilies.com!
When you do business with these advertisers, make sure to
thank them for their support of ROCHESTERfamilies.com! To
find out more about any of our advertisers visit
ROCHESTERfamilies.com’s Our Advertisers page,
www.rochesterfamilies.com/Rochester_MN_advertisers.html.
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