This Saturday is the 13th annual Hanover Harvest Festival, taking place in and around Settler’s Park and Hanover City Hall.
The festival aims to promote community through an array of events including music, contests, a 5K race, parade, car show, craft show/market, and fireworks.
Here are some of the events that will be great for kids:
Click here to view full schedule
Kids Fun Run – 9:30am
Starts at BankWest (click for details)
Parade – 11am
Click here to view parade route
We’ve been spending a lot of time at the community center this month while my daughter takes swim lessons. In case you haven’t been there yet (or lately), I wanted to give you a peek inside.
The Monticello Community Center is a great place to take kids year ’round, but especially when the weather is cold. At MCC you’ll find a fantastic pool, waterslide, hot tubs, indoor play area, climbing wall, fitness center (16+), and a walking/jogging track.
EDIT: Sadie’s Cafe is now CLOSED. See their official announcement at facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1263404743793842&id=113407192126942.
The following article is from July 2017:
Everyone’s favorite local coffee shop just got a major upgrade. As of this week, Sadie’s Coffee of St. Michael is now Sadie’s Café and will be serving a full menu of breakfast items such as waffles, French toast, omelettes, and more.
Many of the more traditional menu items are named with local love—the Saint Michael, the Hwy 241, and The Colonial—while others are bound to surprise you, like the Barnyard plate that includes BBQ pulled pork, bacon, sausage, and eggs… plus hashbrowns and an English muffin. (Uffda!)
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I was so excited when I found out that the Science Museum of Minnesota was hosting a special presentation of The Science Behind Pixar this summer! We are huge fans of Pixar, and my husband and I in particular are both very interested in the filmmaking process. We’re the kind of people who actually watch all those special features on our DVDs. 😉
So, we and our two kids took some time on a weekday to make the drive down to St. Paul to visit with Mike, Sulley, Buzz, and our other Pixar animated friends, and we had a great time!
What does it take, as a mother, to turn personal tragedy into an opportunity to change others’ lives for the better?
In early 2013, local mom Katrina Witschen and her husband Matt were thrilled to find out they were expecting identical twin girls. But their joy was soon dampened by the doctors’ discovery that, not only were the girls in danger because they were sharing one amniotic sac, one of their daughters had anencephaly, a serious birth defect that would prevent her from surviving more than a short time outside of the womb. The two girls were delivered at 32 weeks. Valencia, whose name means “healthy and strong,” was born just so and will celebrate her 4th birthday next month. Laurencia, whose name means “victory,” lived for just 15 minutes before passing victoriously into Heaven.
Laurencia’s death, it turns out, was not as much an end as it was a new beginning. In 2014 the Witschen family started a nonprofit called Laurencia’s Victory that honors her life and memory by providing support to orphaned children and adoptive families.