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Lino Lakes Parks and Recreation Department Program Highlights - October Park Board Update YOUTH MEA Youth Field Trips: We had a great turnout for our MEA break trips this year. 40 children attended the MadScience and Tropics trip on October 19, 42 children attended the Bowling, Lunch and Movie trip on October 20, and 31 children attended the Pumpkin Patch and Apple Orchard trip on October 21. Our next field trip is Maple Maze and More on November 7. Currently 16 children are registered for this trip. Our field trips are a cooperatively run with Blaine Parks and Recreation Department and Centennial Community Services. Youth Football: Our 4th -6th grade players participated in an end of the season tournament October 24 - 29. The 4th grade Lino Lakes Eagles and 6th grade Lino Lakes Vikings won their respective tournaments. Youth Soccer: U10/U12 soccer tournaments were played on Saturday, October 29. We had a great day for soccer and three champions were crowned. Youth Instructional: Our fall youth instructional programs are underway. Registration was strong for many programs including Soccer Mini Camp, Basket "Have a Ball ", Floor Hockey Mini Camp, Preschool Dance and Tae Kwon Do. SPECIAL EVENTS Family Turkey Shoot: The 8th Annual Family Turkey Shoot is just around the corner. It will be held on Saturday, �ovember 12 from 10 a.m. - Noon at Centennial Middle School. Our event sponsors this year are the Circle Pines cington Lions, the Lino Lakes Lions, Lino Lakes State Bank and the Forest Lake Area AthleticAssociation. Our event volunteers are from Centennial High School National Honor Society and Student Council. Feel free to stop by the Family Turkey Shoot on November 12. We'd love to see you there! Breakfast with Santa: Our popular Breakfast with Santa event is just around the corner too. As of 10- 31 -05, 138 people were registered. We anticipate reaching our maximum of 200 by the end of November. Special thanks to Peg Smith and the Lino Lakes Seniors for all their work with the breakfast end of Breakfast with Santa. ADULT Fitness: The first session of fall classes is over and we're gearing up for our second session of classes. Registration has been quite good for our fitness programs this fall. There has been a renewed interest in Cardio Kick Boxing and Slim Express Fitness which is exciting to see. Community Outings: This winter we are losing one of our partners on this program. Centennial Community Services has opted to go in a different direction for their older adult programming. We, however, will still continue to work coop- eratively with Blaine Parks and Recreation on these outings. 5- Player Basketball: Men's 5- Player basketball will be starting league play on Wednesday, December 7. We will have 10 teams in the league this year. BROCHURE & WARMING HOUSES Work is currently in progress on the winter edition of the Recreation Review. It is scheduled to be in homes the last eek in November. Starting in 2006 we'll begin a new distribution schedule of the Recreation Review. The spring edition be out the first week of February as opposed to the last week of February in previous years. Watch for it! Interviews for warming house staff will be taking place in the next two weeks. Warming houses will be open, weather permitting, on December 19. Questions? Please call Liz Benoit or Brian Hronski at 651- 982 -2440.