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ROCHESTERfamilies.com - Newsletter #129
February 1, 2008
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 and Color Me Mine).
Find out more about our advertisers by visiting the
ROCHESTERfamilies.com Our Advertisers webpage,
www.rochesterfamilies.com/Rochester_MN_advertisers.html.
A special thank you goes out to the ROCHESTERfamilies.com
Advertiser of the Month - Color Me Mine. Find out more
about Color Me Mine below or visit 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
(www.postbulletin.com/opinion/columnists) where you can
read all about Cans For Kids (start saving your aluminum
cans). You’ll also find information on the WinterFest VI,
the WinterFest VII Logo Contest, Spring Youth Bowling
Leagues @ Rec Lanes, and Kindermusik’s Sign & Sing class.
Also tune into the Tracy McCray show, 1340 KROC-AM
(www.KROC.com), 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… have family-friendly fun at
WinterFest and Family Fun Week, redeem your $5 off Color Me
Mine coupon, register for the Masque Theatre Great
Giveaway, and 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, Feb. 1
• Free Help W/ Tax Returns - starts today!
• WinterFest
• Kindergarten Registration - Rochester School District
• Story Time @ ABC&Toy Zone
• Family Fun Week - Bowling @ Rec Lanes
• Kingdom Kids annual Storybook Carnival and Open House
• Friday Night Family Fitness @ The Y
Saturday, Feb. 2
• Rochester Downtown Farmers Winter Market
• Children and Grief @ Season's Hospice
• WinterFest
• Kindergarten Registration - Rochester School District
• Go Red For Women Luncheon
• Nature Toddlers @ Quarry Hill - Deer in the Woods
• Free Kids Movie @ Chateau - Over the Hedge
• Story Time @ A Puzzled World
• Story Time @ ABC&Toy Zone
• Hooray for Saturday! @ Library
• Feed the Bison @ Oxbow Park
• Parent/Child Class @ Prairie Walls Climbing Gym
• It's A Secret @ B&N(Apache)
Sunday, Feb. 3
• WinterFest
• Bird Sunday @ Quarry Hill - Bossy Blue Jays
• Family Fun Week - Super Bowl Party @ Rec Center
Monday, Feb. 4
• WinterFest
• Kindermusik Sign & Sing Demo Class
• Story Time @ Christian Book & Gift
• Story Time @ B&N(Apache)
• Bob Miller Magician @ Dos Amigos
• Parenting a Child w/ Special Needs @ PAIIR
• The Nurtured Heart Approach class @ Bluestem
• Family Fun Week - BINGO/Bunco Game @ RCLS
• Preemie Parent Connection
Tuesday, Feb. 5
• WinterFest
• Story Time @ Great Harvest
• Grandparents Parenting Again Support Group
• Bob Miller Magician @ Good Sport Bar & Grill
• Parent/Child Class @ Prairie Walls Climbing Gym
• Circle of Parents Support Group
• Bedtime Stories @ Library
Wednesday, Feb. 6
• WinterFest
• Baby and Me Postnatal Fitness Class
• The Parenthood Club @ PAIIR - starts today!
• Story Time @ ABC&Toy Zone
• Story Time @ B&N(Apache)
• Family Fun Week - Minnesota Ice Hawks Hockey Game
• Minnesota Ice Hawks Home Game
Thursday, Feb. 7
• WinterFest
• Spring Youth Bowling @ Rec Lanes - Registrations Due!
• Stories for Toddlers & Twos @ Library
• Friends WinterFest Book Sale @ Library
• Bob Miller Magician @ O'Neill's
• Single Parent Support Group @ PAIIR
• Family Fun Week - Family Plate @ Color Me Mine
Friday, Feb. 8
• WinterFest
• WinterFest VII logo contest - entries due today!
• Story Time @ ABC&Toy Zone
• Friday Night Family Fitness @ The Y
• Cabin Fever - Girls Night Out
• Family Fun Week - Parent/Child Sweetheart Dance @ The Y
Saturday, Feb. 9
• Hope for Recovery Workshop
• Sno-ball Softball Tournament
• WinterFest
• Spring Youth Bowling @ Rec Lanes - Registration Ends
Today!
• Valentine Party - Community Ed.
• Free Kids Movie @ Chateau - Barnyard
• Great Teachers @ History Center
• Nature Kids @ Quarry Hill - Awesome Owls
• Story Time @ ABC&Toy Zone
• Hooray for Saturday! @ Library
• Wheelers Winter Weekend @ Ironwood Springs Christian
Ranch
• Bluebird Workshop @ Oxbow
• Parent/Child Class @ Prairie Walls Climbing Gym
Sunday, Feb. 10
• WinterFest Birds & Breakfast @ Quarry Hill
• Sno-ball Softball Tournament - WinterFest
• WinterFest
• Critter Sunday @ Quarry Hill - Falco & Friends
• Family Fun Week - Ironwood Springs Christian Ranch
• Storyteller Gwyn Calvetti @ Quarry Hill
ROCHESTERfamilies.com Advertiser of the Month (see coupon
below)
Welcome to Color Me Mine -- the newest member of the
ROCHESTERfamilies.com Family of Advertisers and the
February Advertiser of the Month! Color Me Mine is a
paint-your-own ceramic studio where you choose an
unfinished piece of ceramic and paint it, leave it for
glazing and firing, and return about 4 days later to pick
up your masterpiece.
Not an artist? Not a problem! Our friendly and creative
staff, along with many fun painting techniques, are here to
help make sure you bring a masterpiece home that is sure to
delight your family and friends. We stock over 300
different items, everything from cups and canisters, to
fairies and frogs, even penguins and petunias. All of our
paints and glazes are lead free, 100% friendly to the
environment and completely safe for kids and adults.
Visit Color Me Mine's website,
www.rochester.colormemine.com for more information on
birthday parties, ladies night out events, Mom & Me classes
and more!
YOU GOTTA GO!
Family Fun Night is a family-friendly series of activities
designed to bring awareness to and raise funds for “Young
Survivors,” a new support organization for young women and
their families that have been affected by a breast cancer
diagnosis. Family Fun Night activities will take place Feb.
1 through 10 and include Bowling at Recreation Lanes, a
Super Bowl party at the Rec Center, creating a family plate
at Color Me Mine, tubing at Ironwood Springs Christian
Ranch, the Parent/Child Sweetheart Dance at the Y, and
more. Visit the ROCHESTERfamilies.com Calendar of Events
for more information on all of the Family Fun Night events.
COLOR ME MINE COUPON
$5 off at Color Me Mine when you mention this ad. Limits
may apply. Not to be combined with any other offer or
party. One coupon per customer, per day, please.
GREAT GIVEAWAY WINNER!
Congrats to Angie E. the winner of the Mom-Camp Great
Giveaway! Thanks for MomTalk.com for providing this Great
Giveaway. If you want to find out more about Mom-Camp (at
the Depot Minneapolis February 8th and 9th) visit
Mom-Camp.com. Rochester moms can use discount code ab08mc
and get a 50% discount off registration.
GREAT GIVEAWAY
You could be the lucky winner of two free
tickets to the Masque Theatre’s production of The Emperor's
New Clothes. The Great Giveaway lucky winner can
choose between six performance dates: Feb. 15, 16, 17, 22,
23, 24. To enter, send an email (no later than Thursday,
Feb. 7) to lindy@rochesterfamilies.com. Please put
Masque Theatre in the Subject Box. The winner will be
selected by a random drawing. A gift certificate for the
free tickets will be mailed to the lucky winner. Thanks to
the Masque Theatre for providing this Great Giveaway!
To find out more about this production visit
www.masque.org.
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), Tim & Sandy Williams, Coldwell
Banker Burnet (www.rochesterhomes4you.com) and Color Me
Mine (www.rochester.colormemine.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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