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www.ci.northfield.mn.us/Index.aspx?NID=381

Visit travelingwallfaribault2016.org or call 507-412-9139 for more info

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31 3PM - 5PM: Wall arrives under escort.

Route is currently planned to go from Steele County Fairgrounds through downtown Owatonna, up Highway 45 through Medford and downtown Faribault, ending at the Rice County Fairgrounds.

Please feel free to participate with motorbike, car, truck, etc, or to welcome the Wall by lining the streets with your American Flags.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 7AM - Noon: Setup of Wall (volunteers needed) 1PM: Unofficial opening - Wall opens for visiting 24/7 6:30PM - 7:30PM: Official opening program

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 24 Hours: Wall open for visiting

Daily Programs planned Please note that during the evening a High School football game will be played adjacent to the Wall

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 24 Hours: Wall open for visiting Daily programs and Religious services planned

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

JESSE JAMES LANES

1700 S. HWY. 3 • NORTHFIELD • 507-645-8322

24 Hours: Wall open for visiting Daily programs and Religious services planned

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 Midnight - 2PM: Wall open for visiting 2PM - 3PM: Closing Ceremony 3PM Tear Down and Cleanup (volunteers needed) Sponsored by Faribault Elks, American Legion, VFW, SAL, 40-8, Marine Corps League, Faribault Foundation

A special project of the Faribault Daily News 514 Central Avenue, Faribault, MN 55021 Publisher SAM GETT

A special project of the Northfield News 115 5th Street W, Northfield, MN 55057 Publisher CHAD HJELLMING

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STAYCATION | CHOOSING A STAYCATION

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Why Staycation? taycations are a trend taking hold across the country. Different from traditional vacations that encompass traveling long distances by road or air to reach your destination, staycations are about uncovering the magic in your own backyard.

Traffic, road construction, waiting in airports and losing luggage are just some of the stresses that can dampen your fun on a traditional vacation. Often vacationers come home more exhausted and stressed than when they left.

The most important thing to keep in mind is that “paradise” does not have to be a location but rather a state of mind. The perfect vacation makes you feel a certain way — rested, relaxed and stress free. Those feelings, along with some adventure and fun, can absolutely be achieved on a staycation in your neck of the woods.

SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESS Imagine being on vacation while helping other people achieve their dreams. That would be a good feeling.

Your staycation will benefit not only you but many of your local community businesses. Small community businesses depend on locals for support, and anything beneficial to them will impact the entire community — including your family.

Everyone knows your dollar will reach farther, because that money goes right back into the local economy.

Local businesses owners

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and employees also will be encouraged by your support.

Many of them are your neighbors and friends. Your advocacy brightens their day and helps you stay updated on what’s happening in your community.

UNIQUE ADVENTURE A lot of your local shops contain unique items that are not mass produced. Challenge yourself to go window shopping and try a few different businesses. It is an adventure.

You could find some great

birthday or Christmas presents while you peruse shops as part of your summer staycation.

You might even meet some of the talented artists who make those one-of-a kind gifts. Many share the story

behind their art, as well as its purpose or meaning. This personal touch and connection makes the gift more meaningful. What better way to spend your staycation than building positive relationships with those in your community?

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Faribault Staycation can mean a whole lot of different things. Vacation is typically defined as;”An extended period of recreation, especially one spent away from home or in traveling.” So staycation must be an extended period of recreation at home, right?

Well here in my hometown that’s a snap. It comes down to simply deciding what kind of fun and what kind of food.

If the outdoors is your thing, and exercise for either fun or well-being is appealing to you then grab your hikers, joggers, snow shoes, skis, bicycle, canoe, any kind of ball and racket or bat and have at it.

River Bend Nature Center and the Sakatah Trail will keep you busy and happy for piles of miles as you get your legs or wheels stretched out.

We’ve also got a pretty impressive city trail system with more in the works you can get from here to there without a problem. Dozens of city parks and playgrounds From Alexander to Windsor (there are more parks here

a vacation spent in one’s home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.

than letters in the alphabet) are expertly maintained by city staff and ready for your friends and family to get your game on or enjoy a nice picnic. Bring your swimsuit and enjoy the coolest water park in the region also proudly operated and maintained by our Parks and Recreation Department.

If you’re more of a wild water bug then not only do we have two rivers in town, but over 20 lakes in Rice County.

Fishing, boating, lounging on the water is available just minutes away from Faribault city limits with resorts on Roberds, French and Cedar Lakes.

Oh yes, Downtown Faribault! Recreation in the largest non-metro Historic District in the State (second only to St. Paul) suits many styles AND palettes.

Before we get to the food, there’s plenty to do in and near Downtown. The very busy Senior Center will soon be expanding and right next door all ages can find some recreation at the Community Center which houses the Parks & Recreation office, the Community Center Pool, gymnasium, the Fitness Center and public racquetball courts. It is also the office for City Enrichment and youth and adult sports and recreation programs. If mental exercise is on your agenda then step right next door to the Buckham Memorial Library.

Events and nightlife range from diverse and outstanding performances at our very own Paradise Center for the Arts to edgy and popular bar bands at several of our Downtown watering holes! (Go find the Facebook page for either Faribault Tourism or Faribault Main Street to get a weekly update for Downtown fun) Events downtown include the annual Blue Collar Barbeque on (August 13th this year) and 2016 will see the first Blue Collar Barbeque Pre-Party

on Friday night August 12th. This event is going to be extra special because it will include a performance by the winner of the Rice County Fair Battle of the Bands! Be sure to check it out on Wednesday, July 20 along with the rest of the Rice County Fair!

Any “cation” either stay or va includes good eats and Faribault has a wide variety of unique dining. Downtown is a hotbed (or hot plate?) of super choices. Around town there are multiple choices of Asian, Mexican and African food and along with legendary local pizza, sports bars and traditional home-style fare. There are 39 listings for local cuisine in the Faribault Visitor Guide and another 20 “Familiar Favorites. Not bad by any standards!

At the risk of leaving something out, here are more local highlights for your Staycation; 3 golf courses, batting cages, horseshoes, bowling, BMX track, archery (in and outside), disc golf, dog park, a crazy number of events (again, go online for a complete listing) and some of the very best people you’d ever spend time with. _____________________________ Nort Johnson | Faribault Area Chamber of Commerce and Tourism | nort@faribaultmn.org VISITFARIBAULT.com

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Blue Collar BBQ yArts Fest

“Let’s Go Crazy”

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August 13

Purple Pub Crawl with Games

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ENCORE Crazy Days Sale Back-to-School August 2&3

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Concerts in the Park

EVERY THuRSDAY EVENING Through out the Summer

For More Fun Go To - visitfaribault.com EVENT

Enjoy the water... rent a boat, swim or go fishing

Spend some time in one of our parks

- Central Park -

Take a walk or bike ride along one of our many trails

7PM - FREE

Rice County Fair July 19-24

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Faribault Parks & Rec:

Providing generations of summer fun and activities

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n a simpler day, before cell phones, computers, and DVD players, our family of eleven, 2 parents and 9 kids, turned to recreation programs offered by the city. In spite of a lack of technology, we were never bored. Each elementary school had a summer recreation program, and Lincoln school was ours. I fondly remember our recreation leaders of the late 1960s and early 1970s there as wonderful people and great role models. Staffing the Lincoln recreation program were Ron Stolz, Sharon Mealey, Kris Schneider (Hoysler) and others. They witnessed the Jarvis kids arrive like “a basketful

Celebrate-Remember-Fight Back

Relay FoR liFe oF RiCe County Friday, August 5th & Saturday, August 6th Rice County Fairgrounds

of kittens” coming to play another day! They filled our summer mornings with games like box hockey, softball and tetherball. We painted pictures, used huge crayons to draw pictures, braided key chains, and wove potholders in the craft classes.

After the recreation program closed at noon, we had just enough time to run home for lunch, and then hop on bikes to White Sands Pool for an afternoon of fun in the water. Most summer evenings the empty corner lot morphed into a ball diamond and attracted ball players from around the neighborhood.

As summer would draw to a close, it meant the Pet Parade was soon to come. Oh, what fun we had creating floats for that parade! Special memories of family picnics at Alexander Park are many. Going to one of these picnics with her pot of baked beans in the car’s trunk, my mother discovered (to her dismay) the new speed bumps installed at the park. Needless to say, the beans didn’t make the trip!

Soon after the Pet Parade, our thoughts turned to fall and cub football, and then to winter and ice-skating. We were amazed at the water trucks, how they made the smooth sheet of ice. Music piped outdoors from the warming house filled the frigid night-time air, encouraged icerink romances, and helped us forget how cold it was. We felt lucky to have a nice skating rink in the neighborhood, and we used it nearly every day.

Parks & Recreation provided parks and playgrounds for learning, safe environments, and an enjoyable pattern for living our young lives. We learned team skills and sportsmanship by playing in softball and baseball leagues. They provided structure to our lives, fired our imaginations and honed our creative skills.

Life has come full circle since the days as a young boy growing up in the Faribault Parks & Recreation system. Creative play skills learned at the rinks, parks and playgrounds serve me today as an adult - to be a creative

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problem solver, and the value of inserting fun into each day.

Current technologies that supposedly make life more simple and convenient also beg to take us away from where our happiness truly lies. I am a total believer in what Parks & Recreation programs can do for a person. I see firsthand the joyous results of the programs we offer.

People of all ages and many walks of life enjoy the benefits. Transformations take place in our customer’s lives as they reap the benefits of sports, recreation, classes and leisure time activities scheduled into their lives.

Today’s Park & Recreation programs are not much different than 40 years ago. We provide all the same opportunities, however some program names have changed. The summer recreation program lives on as summer day camp; the ball programs have grown and continue to provide skills to boys and girls. We now offer a multitude of swim lessons. Those that frequented White Sands outdoor pool now enjoy the Family Aquatic Center, and our offerings to the public have expanded a hundred times over.

Somewhere it was said, “If you bring happiness to people’s lives, it’s impossible to keep it from your own life.” If you truly love and enjoy what you do for a living how can it ever be classified as work?

Be sure to see all of our spring and summer program details listed in the spring issue of the Buckham Bulletin.

Find the Bulletin at the Parks & Recreation Community Center, the Buckham Library and the Senior Center. The current bulletin can also be downloaded off the city website at www.faribault.org.

See you in the Parks!

Jeff

_____________________________________________ Jeff Jarvis | Enrichment & Communications City of Faribault | 15 W. Division Street | Faribault

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Pre-picked strawberries available! (Please call to order.)

LORENCE’S BERRY FARM

507-645-9749

28625 Foliage Ave Northfield, MN 55057 7 miles north of Northfield on Cedar Ave. (C.R. 23); 14 miles south of C.R. 42.

Open Daily 6am-2pm or ‘til picked out. Tues, Wed & Thurs evenings 5:30pm-8pm

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Bike & helmet loaner program available.

Tuesdays Practice & Thursdays Weekly Races.

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VINTAGE BAND FESTIVAL JULY 28-31, 2016

4 DAYS 30 BANDS 100 CONCERTS 1st Brigade Band ............................................ Wisconsin 34th Infantry Division Band............................. Minnesota Ameriikan Poijat .............................................. Minnesota Banda la Verdadera ........................................ Minnesota Bavarian Musikmeisters.................................. Minnesota Brio Brass ....................................................... Minnesota Buddy Koopmans Orchestra........................... Minnesota Cannon Falls Community Band ...................... Minnesota Cedar Valley Brass Quintet ............................. Minnesota Copper Street Brass ....................................... Minnesota Dolce Wind Quintet ......................................... Minnesota Godfrey New Horizons Band .......................... Illinois Independent Silver Band ................................ Illinois Jack Brass Band ............................................. Minnesota Kentucky Baroque Trumpets ........................... Kentucky

Lake Wobegon© Brass Band ......................... Minnesota Liberty Band of Iowa....................................... Iowa Ludington Guard Community Band ................ Wisconsin Marengo Civil War Band ................................. Iowa Minnesota State Band .................................... Minnesota New Prague Community Band ....................... Minnesota Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band .................. Florida Northstar Vaudeville Orchestra ....................... Minnesota Polished Brass Quintet ................................... Minnesota Original Drachenfelser Musikanten................. Germany Orphan Brigade Band ..................................... Indiana Sheldon Theatre Brass Band.......................... Minnesota Swing and a Miss ........................................... Minnesota Twin Cities Trumpet Ensemble........................ Minnesota Windworks ...................................................... Minnesota

Concerts in the following cities: Owatonna, Faribault, Cannon Falls, Northfield, Red Wing This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Vintage Band Festival

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See complete schedule of events here

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Protecting Faribault’s Legacy

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recognizing the historic nature of the prophe National Register is Amererty, have succeeded in making it the newest ica’s official list of cultural readdition to the National Register. sources worthy of preservation.

The Faribault community is indebted to In the city of Faribault, no less many who first recognized the city’s rich than 40 properties are recoghistory. The foresight nized of these people led by this agency, an to the preservation of outstanding effort many historic buildtowards preserving ings that may have our city’s birthright. been destroyed. These One property structures will remain placed on the Nafor many generations tional Register is to enjoy, and be a rich the 1853 Alexander reminder of our city’s Faribault House, a amazing past. symbol of preThe majority of the Minnesota Territory buildings in Faribsettlement. Alexanault’s National Regisder Faribault moved ter historic downtown here in 1834 and district were conlater built this home structed as the area’s first Alexander Faribault house. durframe house. ing the 1870s and 1880s.

The years following the construction of During this time most this home brought growth, development, and economic prosperity to the budding colony. A commercial buildings in the country were a steam-powered sawmill, built in early 1854, derivahelped convert a sleepy settlement of crude structures to a bustling town of more than 250 buildings. Faribault’s exceptional growth helped create a demand for roads to be built that connected many trading posts and communities. This infrastructure led to the availability of mail service, the construction of schools and churches, and helped develop local economies.

Efforts are taking place to preserve the city’s earliest remaining industry. The owners of the Faribault Woolen Mills,

Faribault Woolen Mills.

tion of the Italianate style.

More can be learned about historic downtown. A tour brochure is available at www. faribaulthpc.org and videos to watch from your computer or smartphone. Check out an iPod for free from Buckham Library to scan QR barcodes on downtown buildings. Find a QR scanning code app for your iPod, scan

the code, and be transported to the corresponding podcast on the above website. ___________________________________ Jeff Jarvis | Enrichment & Communications City of Faribault | 15 W. Division Street | Faribault Historic downtown Faribault. Photo from www.faribaultmn.org

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Try our Bloody Mary’s Served Sunday’s!

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STAYCATION | KNOW YOUR COMMUNITY

Explore Local History

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iscovering local history is a traditional vacation activity.

What better way to learn about the history around you then by diving into a journey through the past on a staycation?

There are many local organizations dedicated to showcasing the historical perspectives of your home region. You just have to look for them. Start by spending a day at the local library, heading to your downtown museum or taking a local tourism tour around some of the hotspots your area has to offer. You will wrap up your staycation feeling more well-informed than you started.

LOCAL MUSEUMS Museums can bring us up to speed on history. They offer the perfect forum for providing both education and entertainment for your family.

While all the different types of museums might not be available in your town, you likely won’t have to travel far to find one that celebrates the history, cultural background and landmarks around you.

Take your children and friends with you as you educate yourselves on the historic gems that together tell the story of your region.

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LOCAL LIBRARIES Libraries contain volumes of books of every genre, and there should be lots of information and stories on your local history. Check one out and you have a perfect staycation day enjoying the peace and quiet of the

local library.

Or check out a collection of books for the week and head home. Put on your favorite pajamas and plop in a chair.

Make some tea, cover yourself with a blanket and encapsulate

yourself in local history.

TOURS Tours of historic districts and homes are another option to catch up on local history. Some tours and guides even use

horses or boats to discover historic areas. Part of the trip could include local places to dine or shop. Enjoying the weather and scenery on these historic adventures only adds to the experience.

History buffs on staycations will be thrilled with these outof-the-ordinary adventures.

Even if history isn’t your favorite subject, you may find yourself enjoying learning about local times gone by.

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Hoys Resort

on the East Side of French Lake

Come enjoy the day, a week or even longer!

PONTOON RENTAL* Min: 1 hour ......... $75 Each addtl. hr...... $20 Day (8 hours) ...... $175 PADDLE BOARDS* Min: 1 Hour ......... $20 LIFE JACKETS $0.50 each

Great fishing for Crappies, Bass, Sunfish, Walleye, Northern & Muskie.

CABIN RATES** Weekly ........ $500 Daily ........ $80

WE OFFER: Dock Facilities Bait & Tackle Gasoline Food, Beverage and Groceries Store w Bar Video Games

We’ll See You at the (2 night min.)

2016 Rice County Fair!

CAMPGROUND RATES Seasonal only........... $1750 plus electric Our season is May 1st to 2nd week of Oct.

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**Rates based on 4 persons or less. Extra charge of $10 nightly per person over 4 person. All rates are subject to sales teax. Check in 2PM. Checkout 11am. Dishes, cooking utensils, and bedding are furnished, bring your own towels. There are central showeres. No pets allowed. Fish cleaning house and Bait shop.

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ily Park air F ing: $5 E E Full-Fai FR ! r Parkin 2016 sionRice County Fair s i g: $20 m d A th th July 19 -24 , 2016 Free Fair Admission! Daily Parking: $5 · Full-Fair Parking: $20 Wednesday, July 20

@ 6PM

BATTLE OF THE BANDS

ENDURO AUTO RACES

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Adults: $15 • Children 6-11: $5 • 5 & Under: Free Family Pack: 2 Adults & 4 Children for $40

Sunday, July 24TH

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Gates open daily from 7 AM to 5:30 PM

Showgrounds open for setup Thursday, September 1 · 6:00 PM Parade of Tractors - 12:00 NOON DAILY Breakfast Served All Three Days

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Daily Free Entertainment

@ 4PM – KIDS’ POWER WHEELS @ 4:30PM – DEMOLITION DERBY

Mitchell Marionettes, Tuey the Juggler, Brodini Family Comedy/Magic Show

Adults: $15 • Children 6-11: $5 • 5 & Under: Free * Plus many more acts!

Ticket Office opens 1.5 hours prior to event. Gates open 1 hour prior to event. Drawings held Every Night!

FREE Entertainment at the Midway Stage Tuesday, July 19TH @ 7PM Rice County Fair Queen Coronation

Wednesday, July 20TH @ 6:30 – 8:30PM Jivin’ Ivan & the Kings of Swing

Thursday, July 21 @ 6-10PM Whitesidewalls

Friday, July 22 @ 7PM – 9PM Brad Boice –Elvis Impersonator

Saturday, July 23RD @ 7PM Sherwin Linton

Sunday, July 24TH @ 4PM 4-H Parade of Champions

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