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ROCHESTERfamilies.com - Newsletter #157

August 28, 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), 
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 the Rochester Minnesota Kennel Club Agility 
Trials. You’ll also find information on the Park & 
Recreation Adaptive Division Fall Program registration, 
Children’s Zoo Time @ Oxbow, Parenting a Child with Special 
Needs Class @ PAIIR, and the Down Syndrome Network Group 
Meeting. 
 
 
Also tune into the Tracy McCray show, 1340 KROC-AM 
(www.KROC.com), Friday mornings at 9:40 a.m. for a quick 
ROCHESTERfamilies.com rundown of this weekend’s 
family-friendly events. 
 
 
 
GREAT GIVEAWAY 
Just in time for fall fun, win a Family Admission (corn 
maze, wagon ride, pumpkin) to Northwoods Orchard in 
Oronoco. Four families will win, and will be announced in 
each of the next four newsletters (9/5, 9/12, 9/19, 9/26). 
Email lindy@rochesterfamilies.com by Thursday, Sept. 25 to 
register. Make sure you put Northwoods in the subject box. 
Thanks to Northwoods Orchard, www.northwoodsorchard.com, 
for providing this Great Giveaway! 
 
 
 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS   
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 canceled. It’s always a good idea to call ahead (or 
visit the host organization’s website) and confirm all 
details. 
 
Friday, Aug. 29 
• Story Time @ ABC&Toy Zone 
 
Saturday, Aug. 30  
• Rochester Downtown Farmers Market - Chef Omar Feyen 
• AKC Agility Trials 
• Children Zoo Hour @ Oxbow Park 
• Story Time @ ABC&Toy Zone 
• Free Kids Movie @ Chateau - Over the Hedge 
• Bob Miller Magician @ Grand Opening of Macho Nacho Blues 
Bar & Grill 
• Parent/Child Class @ Prairie Walls 
• Rochester Civic Theatre's Park Players - free Shakespeare 
performance 
 
Sunday, Aug. 31  
• AKC Agility Trials 
• RYBA Fall Baseball - registration ends today! 
 
Monday, Sept. 1  
• AKC Agility Trials 
• Free Kids Movie @ Chateau - Over the Hedge 
 
Tuesday, Sept. 2  
• B&N Summer Reading Program - Ends Today! 
• Storytime @ Great Harvest 
• Grandparents Parenting Again Support Group Mtg. 
• Bob Miller Magician @ Good Sports Bar & Grill 
• Circle of Parents Support Group Mtg. 
 
Wednesday, Sept. 3  
• Growing w/ Music - fall semester begins 
• Music for Little Mozarts Fall Term - begins today! 
• Storytime @ ABC&Toy Zone 
• Storytime @ A Puzzled World 
 
Thursday, Sept. 4  
• Preschool Spanish Class - begins today 
• Ladies Night @ Color Me Mine 
• Bob Miller Magician @ O'Neill's 
 
Friday, Sept. 5  
• Storytime @ ABC&Toy Zone 
• Down Syndrome Network Group Mtg. 
 
Saturday, Sept. 6  
• Rochester Downtown Farmers Market 
• Rochester Education Summit 
• 5th Annual Kids Day America 
• Storytime @ A Puzzled World 
• Family Film Program @ Library 
• Storytime @ ABC&Toy Zone 
• Family Sing Along @ B&N (Apache) 
• Free Family Day @ Rochester Art Center 
• Tree Identification @ Oxbow Park 
 
 
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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!  
 
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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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lindy@rochesterfamilies.com or visit our Advertise With Us 
page, 
www.rochesterfamilies.com/advertise_on_rochesterfamilies.html. 
 
 
 
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up? Would you like it to appear on ROCHESTERfamilies.com?  
If so, email lindy@rochesterfamilies.com. There is never a 
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lindy@rochesterfamilies.com.