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• • Up Coming Special Events: o Snow Day is being held, Saturday, January 29 at Wargo Nature Center. This free family event is put on in collaboration with Anoka County and Blaine Parks and Recreation Departments. Refreshments, arts and crafts, live animal show and variety of outdoor recreation activities are provided for families to enjoy. o Sweetheart Party will be held Friday, February 4 at Centennial Middle School for children ages 7 and under with their parents. Approximately 100 children are expected to attend from Lino Lakes, Blaine and Centennial Community Services. o Kite Day on June 4. This annual end of the school celebration will take place a Rice Lake Elementary and hopefully good kite flying weather will be in store for this free family event. o New special events that will be taking place in the coming months include: • Princess Party on March 4. We are spending the night making wands, tiaras, necklaces and putting on our own fashion show. This event is for children ages 7 and under and their parents. • Super Hero Boot Camp on April 2. There will a variety of carnival games for the super heroes and their families to complete. Participants are encouraged to come dressed as their favorite super hero. • Spring Fling on April 15. We are kicking off spring with a free egg hunt for children ages 11 and under. We hope to use this as another avenue to promote our summer programs. • Family Corn Roast and Community Night on July 28. We are excited to offer this one of a kind family event. We will have live music, a magician, arts and crafts, bounce house and concessions for families to enjoy. • The Lino Lakes Senior Center is fitting well into the parks and recreation department. Our first set of trips are filling up nicely and we have great trips planned for the spring and summer months. Weekly groups are still meeting at their regular times and enjoying the opportunity to have a place to gather. • Tae Kwon Do, Dance Classes, Cardio Kick Boxing, Latin Cardio Dance and Toss, Kick and Catch are still going strong with a core group of followers and new participants joining as well. • The Spring /Summer brochure should be out in homes by mid - February with registration beginning in March. • Baseball Skills camp was a success we had 7 kids participate in the April class. • Cougar Soccer Camp was a big hit again....we had 50 kids participate in the one week camp. • Baseball Camp was a great success...we had 60 kids participate and we had great weather. • Our tennis program ran from mid June until the end of July with about 200 total participants in the summer tennis program. • Our youth golf academy filled up again this past summer and we had 50+ youth golfers taking instruction from Phil Biesanz. • Our Fall Flag football was a success. We had 25 kids playing flag football and we had 4 fathers volunteer as coaches. This class met for 4 weeks on Tuesdays and Thursdays. • Our Fall Youth Soccer program has been holding steady with about 350 participants and 75 volunteer coaches. We had programs at the U6, U8 Boys and Girls, and U10 Boys and Girls programs. We had an end of the season tournament for the U10 division.