
Why let the kids have all the fun?? Celebrate the kids’ return to school with a celebration of your own!
Visit Dunn Brothers in St. Michael on Tuesday, September 5 between 9 and 11 a.m., and stop by the STMA Mom table to get a coupon for 25% off any beverage or food item.*
Invite a friend to enjoy the morning out with you. And while you’re there, be sure to enter our drawing to win a FREE coffee mug and a pound of Dunn Brothers coffee!
Event details at:
https://www.facebook.com/events/114076019262222
*In store only, excludes alcoholic beverages

The Fall 2017 brochure from Community Education will be hitting mailboxes this week!
In it you’ll find information about early childhood (ECFE) programs, youth sports, music lessons, art classes, and MUCH more for your kids… as well as a handful of classes, trips, and athletic opportunities for adults.

So, unless you’ve been living under a moon rock, you know that this Monday the United States will be experiencing a very rare type of solar eclipse.
Here in the St. Michael–Albertville area, we will have the opportunity to see a partial eclipse, meaning that about 83% of the sun’s light will be covered by the moon at the peak of the event. The eclipse will be visible from 11:45 to 2:30, with the maximum eclipse taking place at 1:05 p.m.

It figures—right?—that on one of the most uncomfortably hot days of this summer so far, our air conditioner would stop working.
We realized that our A/C wasn’t running just as my husband was headed out the door to a meeting. So, I jumped on Facebook to the STMA bulletin board group to see who the community was recommending for a fix, and the name I kept seeing there was Rol Air Plumbing & Heating.
Rol Air was able to send someone to our house within a couple of hours, and he arrived exactly when they said he would—so helpful to me as a busy mom! Jay (the owner) talked us through what was wrong with our A/C and helped us weigh the pros and cons of fixing just one part or replacing the whole system. My husband and I both felt like Jay was someone whose experience and recommendation we could trust.

This week I had the opportunity to meet local mom Kirsten Bansen Weigle, who gave me a little tour of what she’s growing in her garden at the St. Michael Community Garden on Frankfort Parkway. I got to see up close the unique and beautiful blooms that she offers to local florists through her startup business, Goldfish Gardens. (Take a look at these amazing sunflowers!)