Monday, July 13, 2009

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Lunch Bunch Concert Series
Everyone is invited to bring their lunch and enjoy an hour of live entertainment such as folk, blues, classical, or rock music, and even some dancing and poetry. Admission is FREE! Gallivan Plaza, SLC, Monday - Friday, July 13-17, 12-1 pm. http://www.slcgov.com/PublicServices/Gallivan/lunchbunch.html

Red Butte Garden Sunset, Stories, Stars and S'mores
Bring your tent, camping gear, and a picnic dinner for an unbelievable night in the Garden! This overnight camp-out will include games, storytelling, a sunset hike, s'mores, and a star party with the Clark Planetarium! Friday, July 17, 5:30 PM - Saturday, July 18, 8:30 AM. Eat a catered breakfast in style at our Concert Sponsor Pavilion Café from 7:30- 8:30 AM. Gates open at 5:30 PM; programming begins at 7 PM. This is an all ages event, full restroom facilities available. Children under 4 are free. MEMBERS: $20/ PER PERSON NONMEMBERS $25/ PER PERSON REGISTRATION REQUIRED. CALL (801) 581-8454

Deer Valley Music Festival
DV and the Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater proudly present Frederica von Stade with the Utah Symphony, July 17th. The gates will open at 5:30 pm, with the concert lasting from 7:30 - 10 pm. Ticket prices will increase $5 on the day of the show, family passes are available. Tickets can be purchased at www.deervalleymusicfestival.org.

Fall Soccer Sign Up
The deadline for sign up is July 18th. Mark your calendars and visit www.basinrecreation.com

Making Art: Mom, Dad, and Me, Session I
Class is in session for parents and their pre-schoolers, ages 2-5. Join the Utah Museum of Fine Arts for hands-on art studio experiences inspired by their collections. Activities will include creating paintings, masks, sculptures and frames for beginning artists' masterpieces, and get the creativity flowing with storytelling, strolls through the galleries and hands-on art objects. Class takes place July 13-16 from 10am-12 pm (ages 2-5). For registration, call (801) 581-6984.

Harry Potter Sneak Preview
The Park City Education Foundation is sponsoring a sneak preview of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince at the Redstone Cinema 8 in Kimball Junction on Tuesday, July 14. Tickets are $25. Check online for purchasing information and availability at pcef4kids.org. Join them for costume and trivia contest, prize giveaways and seeing your favorite Harry Potter characters one day before they hit the screen across the country. Hogwarts, here we come!

Passports: A Cultural Discovery Day
Stamp your passport as you explore cultures from around the world through games and other activities for FREE!!! BYU's Museum of Peoples and Cultures, Provo, Monday July 13th, 4 pm. http://mpc.byu.edu

Bike Club for Teen Girls
All girls ages 14-18 and abilities are welcome for Monday night rides starting from 5:30-7 pm, Monday, June 15th.   Meet at the right side of the Racquet Club parking lot for a great bike ride! racer.girl@comcast.net

Weekly Park Highlight - Sound Garden
See your child's imagination grow at this musical park. Located off of the bike trail just past City Park, this make your own music park is located under the shady trees and has several options for your child to discover different musical tones in a fun atmosphere!

Pre-Comp Swim Team
This swim team is designed to give young swimmers a chance to try their hand at racing in a fun and safe environment. The program enforces proper stroke techniques and builds endurance in all four competitive strokes. Flip turns, racing starts and racing skills are all introduced and practiced. Mondays from 8:30-9:30 am. There will be one swim meet once a week, they will take place on Thursday evenings against other teams in our area. www.aquatics@silvermountainspa.com

Rally For The Cure Event With Ladies 9 Hole Golf League
This is an all day event, Tuesday, July 14 at the Park City Municipal Golf Course to benefit the Susan G. Komen Cancer Research. Tee times start at 6:30 am and continue throughout the day. Silent Auction all day, reception/social at the Silver Star begins at 6:30 pm. Sign up at the Park City Municipal Golf Course. For more information, call (435) 647-0319.

Trail Detour at The Canyons
The trails are awesome. Wildflowers are exploding. Go outside and play!! The Canyons lift maintenance department will be conducting some work that will impact trail users on the Mid Mountain Trail. Users will be redirected to come out onto Apex Ridge (from the North), up the ski trail (they will mow a section for easier use), about 100 yards, to the work road that will connect them right back to the trail. Coming from the South, they will pop out of the woods onto the work road (Easy St), ride up the road as usual and instead of dropping back on to the single track, continue on the road to apex ridge, go down the ski trail and hook back onto the Mid Mountain Trail. This detour will last from July 13-15th.

It's BBQ time! 12 Healthy BBQ Tips
http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/eat-safe/healthy-vegetarian-bbq-47070104?src=nl&mag=tdg&list=dgr&kw=ist

Babysitter Bash!
A fun way to help connect babysitters with local parents AND to help fund Park City Jane's List! Let us introduce you to a pool of brilliant, educated and experienced babysitters. You'll have a chance to meet, greet and connect with a wonderful pool of babysitting candidates selected by Park City Jane's List in a fun, comfortable setting.   You'll leave the bash with an exclusive "Sitter Directory." complete with a bio, contact information and photo of each sitter. $30/couple donation: proceeds go to help fund Park City Jane's List. The event is on July 18 at 10:30 a.m. (those who can't attend can still purchase the sitter book but we are limiting the total of books given out at or before the event to 25). Due to space limitations, enrollment is limited--we are almost full, so reserve your spot now!   For more details, please email us: Leslie@parkcityjane.com ATTN: Babysitter Bash.

SAHM Monday Meetup
The fun mommies of this PC Moms Group subgroup have once again resumed their super-popular summer agenda. The fun kicks off at Park City Bread & Bagel in Quarry Village at 10:00 am followed by playtime for the kids at Pinebrook Park at 11:00ish. No need to come to the entire thing--some people come for either part, some come for all. So much fun to have a big playdate with kids of all ages and meet their interesting mommies! For more information, please email Jill at jel727@gmail.com or visit www.sahm.meetup.com/2626

Creekside Kids Dinosaur Camp
June 23-August 6th, 8am-12pm
Extended care available until 2pm $8/hr. with a reservation
$40.00 per day
Come get down & dirty with dinosaurs, dig for dinosaur bones, look for fossils, lots of dinosaur arts & crafts, cooking, yoga, singing and much, much more. Ages 1 - First grade
Call (435) 655-0195 to reserve your spot.

Tour De France
Lance Armstrong is back in action! See him compete for team dominance with current team leader Contador. On Versus (formerly OLN) daily for the next few weeks. Times vary each day, so check out http://www.versus.com/tdf/ for schedule.

Custom Flash Cards
Goosie Cards makes learning fun and the sturdy laminated cards make keeping organized easy. They travel extremely well too! Made with your own photos, or the available stock at their website, your custom card set starting at only $28 can be yours in 7-10 days. Their interactive website is super fun- hurry and check it out!" www.goosiecards.com

11 Facts about Recycling
1.   The average American uses 650 pounds of paper each year - 100 million tons of wood could be saved each year if all that paper was recycled.
2.   Americans use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
3.   A typical family consumes 182 gallons of soda, 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. That's a lot of containers that can all be recycled!
4.   About 80% of what Americans throw away is recyclable, yet our recycling rate is only 28%.
5.   Every month Americans throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper (think: Empire State Building), but all of these jars are recyclable!
6.   Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures a year! Ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/19/SS6JS8RH0.DTL&hw=pacific+patch&sn=001&sc=1000? It's twice the size of Texas and is floating somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. It's also 80 percent plastic, and weighs in at 3.5 million tons.
7.   Recycling one ton (about 2,000 pounds) of paper saves 17 trees, two barrels of oil (enough to run the average car for 1,260 miles), 4,100 kilowatts of energy (enough power for the average home for six months), 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, and 60 pounds of pollution.
8.   The 17 trees saved by recycling one ton of paper can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the air each year.
9.   If all of our newspapers were recycled, we could save about 250 million trees each year! If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we could save about 25 million trees each year.
10.   More than 20 million Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of aluminum foil. Believe it not, ALL that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it so most it goes in the trash!
11.   Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours. In spite of this, Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial fleet of airplanes every three months!