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Lino Lakes Parks and Rerretcn Department Program Hi9Pi9tyt-s — Octo{,er Park Etard Update YOuTN CLUBS "AD" Trips: CLUBS offered two field trips over the MEA break - Fall Harvest Fun and Science Museum. Forty -eight children attended the Fall Harvest Fun field trip which included a trip to Afton Apple Orchard for pumpkin picking, apple picking, a hayride and a corn maze. The Science Museum trip was cancelled due to lack of registrations. Youth Instructional: Many of our fall youth instructional programs started the first week of this month. Soccer Mini Camp has remained popular - one class filled and the other was close to filling. Toss, Kick and Catch has regained popularity - the class has one more than the maximum registered. fall Soccer: Fall Soccer is a big kick with participants. Approximately 650 participants are in this program - an increase from last season. All games are played at Rice Lake Elementary and Centennial Middle School. If numbers continue to increase, we may need to look at playing games at more facilities. Fal! Tackle Football: The first season of this program has gone well. A survey has been sent out to all participants and we will be having a wrap up meeting to better evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the season. ADULT Fall Softball: The season concluded in September. 24 teams participated in the five -week season - consistent with last season. We 1 that softball will continue to stagnate until teams see major improvements in our facilities. Building our athletic complex ould be a major attraction for the softball enthusiast. Basketball: 7 teams are registered this season for 3- Player Basketball and we are currently accepting registrations for the 5- Player Basketball program. SPECIAL EVENTS f anily Turkey Shoot: The 4th Annual Family Turkey Shoot is just around the corner! This year's event will be held on Saturday, November 17 from 10 -11:30 am at Centennial Middle School. 2001 sponsors: Lino Lakes Lions and Lino Lakes State Bank. Special thanks to the 80 volunteers that will be helping at the event. Breakfast with Santa: As of 10- 25 -01, 167 participants were registered for this event. This is a slight decrease from last year's total at this time, but we positive that the program will be filled by the end of next month. ACTIVES GUIDE We are currently working on our Winter Activities Guide. The guide will be mailed out to homes the Last week of November. WINTER EMPLOYMENT Se department is actively and aggressively pursuing employees to our warminghouse and other winter position vacancies. It is anticipated to have these positions filled by Thanksgiving. Questions? Contact Liz Bursack or Barry Bernstein at 651- 982 -2440. 2000 family Turkey Shoot — Thanks for your help Pat!