Summer 2010 Newsletter
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Edina Newcomers and Friends
A Note from our President –
I hate the passing of the 4th 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 13th to Sally at Sally@EdinaNewcomers.org
“BRIGHT GARDENTS FOR FRASER”: Saturday, JULY 17TH, 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 21st, 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.