EDINA NEWCOMERS

Edina Newcomers and Friends

A Note from our President –

I hate the passing of the 4^th of July.  From this point on it seems the fleeting summer goes into hyper mode.  It’s time to work on the season’s “bucket list” before it’s too late!  I’ve listed some fun activities below—garden tours, band concerts, the new Edina Farmer’s market.

Please join us for our mid-summer salad potluck.  It’s a great time to reconnect and an excuse to celebrate our summer birthdays.

See you there!

Sally                                     Sally@EdinaNewcomers.org

ACTIVITES

SUMMER SALAD POTLUCK: Thursday, July 15th, 6:00PM

at the home of a member

Please bring a cool summer salad to share.

RSVP by Tuesday, July 13^th to Sally at Sally@EdinaNewcomers.org

“BRIGHT GARDENTS FOR FRASER”:  Saturday, JULY 17^TH, 9:00AM-4:00PM

Visit several award-winning private gardens at your own pace.  Proceeds benefit Fraser, a nationally renowned nonprofit serving children and adults with special needs.

Admission $20, or $30 with boxed lunch.  Tickets available at www.Fraser.org.calendar or 612-798-8343.

“GREAT GARDENS OF N.E. EDINA”:  Wednesday, July 21^st, Noon-8:00PM

The Edina Garden Council sponsors this annual self-guided tour to benefit Edina parks.

Tickets are $12 in advance (Call Kay Bach at 952-941-9589) or $15 at Arneson  Acres that day.

LAKE HARRIET CONCERTS: Monday-Saturday at 7:00PM, Sundays at 2:00 & 5:30PM

For the complete schedule go to:

Shttp://www.minneapolisparks.org/documents/activities/concerts/Lake_Harriet.pdf

CENTENNIAL LAKES CONCERTS:  Sunday-Wednesday 7:00PM

For the complete schedule go to:  www.ci.edina.mn.us/content/facilities/centennial_lakes/PDFs/Summer%20calendar%202010%20blac-white.pdf

CENTENNAIL LAKES FARMERS MARKET: Thursdays from 3:00-7:00PM through the end of September.

Vendors will be setup along the walkways leading north and south from the Park Centrum building. The Farmers Market will be held rain or shine. For more information, please call 952-833-9580.

SUMMER READING: September 2010 Book Club Discussion:  The Florist’s Daughter By Patricia Hampl

During the long farewell of her mothers dying, Patricia Hampl revisits her Midwestern girlhood. Daughter of a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entre into St. Paul society, and a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a tale, Hampl remained, primarily and passionately, a daughter well into adulthood. She traces the arc of faithfulness and struggle that comes with that role from the postwar years past the turbulent sixties. The Florists Daughter is a tribute to the ardor of supposedly ordinary people. Its concerns reach beyond a single life to achieve a historic testament to midcentury middle America. At the heart of this book is the humble passion of people who struggled out of the Depression into a better chance, not only for themselves but for the common good. Widely recognized as one of our most masterful memoirists, Patricia Hampl has written her most intimate, yet most universal, work to date.