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ROCHESTERfamilies.com - Newsletter #163
October 9, 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 next Wednesday’s
Post-Bulletin’s Lifestyle section
(www.postbulletin.com/life) where you can read all about
Empty Bowls (a fundraiser for Channel One Food Bank and
Food Shelf), the Child Passenger Safety Seat Inspection
Clinic (find out if you installed your child’s car seat
correctly), Lights @ Bluff Valley (win free admission by
registering for this week’s Great Giveaway), The Jungle
Book @ The Masque, and Bluestem’s 4-week parenting
workshop.
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.
UPCOMING LOCAL EVENT
The Hearts at Home North Central Regional conference is
November 7-8 at the Mayo Civic Center. Conference topics
include Parenting (Preschool, Grade School, and Teen),
Marriage, Spiritual Growth, Personal Growth, and Family
Management. The conference early registration deadline ends
Oct. 15. The benefits of registering by that date include:
$5 off registration, free lunch on Saturday, and a better
chance of getting into your workshop selections. For more
information or to register for the conference visit
www.hearts-at-home.org or call (309) 828-MOMS.
GREAT GIVEAWAY - Winner
And the winner is... Lisa K. is the winner of the
ROCHESTERfamilies.com Masque Youth Theatre’s Great
Giveaway! Congrats Lisa! The Masque’s production of the
Jungle Book runs Oct. 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26.
Thanks to the Masque Theatre for providing this Great
Giveaway! To find out more about this production or their
other 2008/09 productions -- Alice In Wonderland, Alphabet
Soup, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Cinderella --
visit www.masque.org.
Great Giveaway - 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 Wednesday
through Sunday, Oct. 16-Nov. 30) 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.
Great Giveaway - Studio Seven
Studio Seven is providing this week's Great Giveaway. The
giveaway is for a regular portrait session (one hour at
your choice of location) and two 8X10 prints. Thanks to
Studio Seven, www.studiosevenphoto.com, for providing this
Great Giveaway.
To enter the Great Giveaway,
email lindy@rochesterfamilies.com. Please put Studio Seven
in the subject box.
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, Oct. 10
• Viola Nursery and Greenhouse - Fall Celebration
• TGIF @ PAIIR
• Story Time @ ABC&Toy Zone
Saturday, Oct. 11
• Rochester Downtown Farmers Market - Kids Day!
• Viola Nursery and Greenhouse - Fall Celebration
• Winter Youth League @ Soccer World - Registration Due
Today!
• Story Time @ A Puzzled World
• Old Time Country Music For Kids @ The Library
• Story Time @ ABC&Toy Zone
• Healthy Baby Day @ BABIES R US
• Preserving Family History Workshop
• Feed the Deer & Elk @ Oxbow
• Parent/Child Class @ Prairie Walls Climbing Gym
• Ice Hawks Home Game
Sunday, Oct. 12
• Viola Nursery and Greenhouse - Fall Celebration
• ABC Music & Me Family Time Class - starts today!
• Critter Sunday @ Quarry Hill - A Log's Life
Monday, Oct. 13
• Open Gym @ Soccer World
• Story Time @ Christian Book & Gift
• Kids Day @ Color Me Mine
• Transition Fair for Special Education Students
• Bob Miller Magician @ Dos Amigos
• Parenting a Child w/ Special Needs @ PAIIR
Tuesday, Oct. 14
• Story Time @ Great Harvest
• Bob Miller Magician @ Good Sport Bar & Grill
• Parent/Child Class @ Prairie Walls Climbing Gym
• Circle of Parents Support Group Mtg.
• I'm a Big Brother/Sister Event @ Babies R Us
• Bedtime Stories @ The Library
• District Boundary Mtg.
• Mothers & More Mtg. - Open House
Wednesday, Oct. 15
• Mothers & More Silent EBay Auction - starts today!
• Story Time @ ABC&Toy Zone
• Mothers of Multiples Mtg. - Tasting Bee
Thursday, Oct. 16
• Kids Adventure Days @ The Y
• Lights @ Bluff Valley - Opens Today!
• Stories for Toddlers & Twos @ The Library
• Fourth Annual Empty Bowls Fundraiser for Channel One
• Ladies Night @ Color Me Mine
• Bob Miller Magician @ O'Neill's
Friday, Oct. 17
• Kids Adventure Days @ The Y
• RCYBA registration - closes today!
• Crescendo Dance Convention
• Zoom Buggy Kindermusik Class - Starts Today!
• Story Time @ ABC&Toy Zone
• 18th Annual Wine Tasting to Benefit Y Mentors
• The Jungle Book @ The Masque
Saturday, Oct. 18
• Rochester Downtown Farmers Market - Yard Care!
• Think Green Fair
• Story Time @ A Puzzled World
• Legend of Paul Bunyan @ The Library
• Story Time @ ABC&Toy Zone
• Naturalist Choice @ Oxbow
• Nazarene Well House Open House & Fall Festival
• Parent/Child Class @ Prairie Walls Climbing Gym
• The Jungle Book @ The Masque
• Ice Hawks Home Game
Sunday, Oct. 19
• Cave Sunday @ Quarry Hill - Quarry
• That Writing Contest Awards Program @ The Library
• The Jungle Book @ The Masque
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!
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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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