june 21 Midnight Sun Festival

Midnight Sun Festival

Thursday June 21, 2007

Noon - Midnight

1st, 2nd, and 3rd Avenues - downtown

It's time Fairbanks!!!! Our fabulous Midnight Sun Festival is here on Thursday!

Here's some of what's going on:

Olympic Gold Medalist
Kayaking Lessons & Tips

Breakdancing Competition
Gold Panning
Climbing Wall
Bucking Salmon
Petting Zoo
Dunk Tank
Kids Games & Prizes
Basketball

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Over 160 Booths
Fine Alaskan Arts & Crafts
Over 30 Bands on
3 Stages

Visit the website for more details and the schedule of live performances.

http://www.downtownfairbanks.com/files/MSF_Handout_20072.pdf

JUNE21Midnight Sun Baseball

The 102nd Midnight Sun Baseball Game

June 21, 2007

10:30-past midnight

Goldpanner Field

Fairbanks' own Alaska Goldpanners play in this annual game at night with no lights, just our magical midnight sun! Everyone likes to turn out for this one...a day of baseball and peanuts with the kids. Go Goldpanners!

(907) 451-0095

Fairbanks Day

Fairbanks Day "Block Party Picnic"

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

1-4pm kid's activities

1-8pm music

Come celebrate Fairbanks! FREE train rides, music, kids' games, Community Organization booths, prizes and giveaways.

This sounds like a nice reason to get out to Pioneer Park, listen to music, and learn about different groups that serve the community.

june20th Summer Nature Walk

Summer Nature Walk

Creamer's Field Farmhouse (1300 College Road by the big barns)

7:00pm

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Take a pleasant evening walk at Creamer's with one of their naturalists. What a treasure we have in Creamer's Field.

Dog Agility Day

Dog Agility Day Demonstration

Noel Wien Library

Tuesday June 19, 2007

2:00pm

The Tanana Valley Kennel Club's Dog Agility Group will demonstrate their dogs' abilities to do amazing stunts around the agility course. Afterwards, you can meet the pooches...pet pet slurp slurp. This is a super fun event to watch.

The library is prepared...in case of rain, there will be movies in the Library auditorium. Ages 5 and up.

Father's Day Car Show

Father's Day Car Show

June 17, 2007 **(the mach 5 from the Speed Racer cartoon

will not be at the Car Show, it was just the coolest

car I could think of to post! Go Speed Racer...go")

11am - 3pm

Sourdough Fuel (corner of Van Horn and Lathrop)

FREE!!

If the father in your life loves cars, this will be a terrific chance to take him out on Father's Day for walk browsing around all types of cars. There will be door prizes, and who doesn't LOVE door prizes? Have fun...zoom zoom zoom

Swimming

Mary Siah Swimming

Off of Airport Way, turn on Gillam, 1025 14th Avenue

On days like today that aren't too hot, the kids might like to go swimming. Unfortunately, we have no outdoor public pool(think of the mosquitoes...ugg), but we do have a couple of indoor pools.

Today I thought I"d post Mary Siah's information for Open Swims. The kids can swim, and the parent can go soak in the gigantic bubbly hot tub!!

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Open Swim there are two:

4:00pm - 4:45pm

6:30pm - 8:45pm

Thursday there is NO open swim

Saturday 2:15pm - 3:45pm

Sunday - closed

Free Family Movies

Free Family Movies at the Goldstream Theater on Airport Way

Tuesdays & Wednesdays

10:00AM

05/29-05/30 Curious George (G) Ice Age: The Meltdown (PG)

06/05-06/06 Jonah: A Veggie Tale Movie (G) Happy Feet (PG)

06/12-06/13 Everyone's Hero (G) Over The Hedge (PG)

06/19-06/20 Clifford's Really Big Movie (G) Night At The Museum (PG)

06/26-06/27 Doogal (G) Garfield: A Tail Of Two Kitties (PG)

07/03-07/04 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (G) Monster House (PG)

07/10-07/11 Rugrats: The Movie (G) Barnyard (PG)

07/17-07/18 Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (G) Open Season (PG)

07/24-07/25 Charlotte's Web (G) Flushed Away (PG)

07/31-08/01 Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland (G) Happily Never After (PG)

They show both movies both days, you can pick which one you want.

Youth Series Bike Rides

Every Monday evening

Birch Hill Rec Area

7-8pm

Event Sponsor: Rick Johnson 455-6950

I think this is for grades K-12, but call for more info if you have questions

Mosquito Meander

Mosquito Meander fun run 5k

10:00 am

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Start at: Pioneer Park's east gate (formerly Alaskaland)(Airport Way & Peger Road)

Finish: In Pioneer Park (new route this year).

Only late registration at the event is still available.

Saturday from 8:45am - 9:45am at Pioneer Park (race day)

Cost WITH late fee of $5 is: $20.00/adult registration w/t-shirt $15.00 Youth (under 12) w/youth size t-shirt

This is a very fun easy 5k for the family. You're welcome to walk, run, bike, skate, skip, or whatever you'd like to get to the finish. Bring the whole family out for this one, oh...and maybe an umbrella. Ugg.

Free kids' tennis

Kids Free Tennis Fairbanks Tennis Association

Dan Ramras Community Tennis courts (behind Mary Siah)

Continues for each Saturday in June.

Grades K-2 is from10-11 am

Grades 3-12 from 10-12.

Register when you bring your child.

info@fairbankstennis.org

Track and Field Games

Alyeska Track & Field Games

June 9th, 2007

10:00 A.M.

West Valley High School Track

Open to all kids born between 1994 and 2001

T-shirts available for the first 500 registrants

Sorry, there was registration until June 7th, and I'm not sure if you can just show up and participate. My guess is you can...it's just a guess, I'm not familiar with the Games. Good Luck!

TOTE Family Fun Fest

TOTE Family Fun Fest

Sunday June 10 2007

Noon to 4pm

Under the big top tent at the UAF Museum of the North

$5 adults

$3 youth ages 7-17

Free for kids under 6!!

The family fun fest is always a fun-filled day of crafts and cool hands-on science projects. Visit the museum while you're up on the hill.

Activities: Discover dinosaurs

Design your own beadwork

Build a plant press

Be a migrating salmon (this one is a poplar fun game with lots of laughing and silliness)

Explore the museum in a scavenger hunt

Learn Eskimo dancing with the Pavva Inupiaq Dancers

Create your own museum art

Investigate insects

Dissect owl pellets

Take your photo with UAF mascot "bear" NANOOK!

474-7505 for more info.

Fairbanks Summer Folk Fest

Fairbanks Summer Folk Fest

Saturday

June 9, 2007

Noon - 10 p.m.

Pioneer Park

Free Music all day long! What a great sunny day it should be, and the sky will be filled with folky sounds. Bring the kids!!

Folk, Bluegrass, Blues, Jazz, Celtic-and much more.

http://www.alaskafolkmusic.org

(907)488-0556

Concerts in the Plaze

Concerts in the Plaza

June 6, 2007 - July 27, 2007

Wednesday, 7-8 pm

Fridays, Noon-1 pm

Golden Heart Plaza downtown Fairbanks

FREE!!

Come downtown along the Chena to relax and enjoy the 15th year of free downtown concerts. Bring a chair and sit near the larger than life Alaskan family statue in the fountain. This is a nice place to have an ice cream (I remember in the past they've given out free ice cream, not sure this year), and let your kids groove to the music.

Friday, June 8 - Pat Fitzgerald & Robin Dale Ford

Wed., June 13 - 9th Army Band Alaska "Arctic Rock"

Friday, June 15 - Pat Fitzgerald & Robin Dale Ford

Wed., June 20 - O Tallulah

Friday, June 22 - 9th Army Band Alaska "Jammin' Salmon"

Wed., June 27 - Fairbanks Community Band Friday

June 29 - 9th Army Band Alaska "Denali Brass"

Wed., July 4 - Holiday-No concert

Friday July 6 - Raging Hormones

Wed., July 11 - Fairbanks Community Band

Friday, July 13 - Outbound

Wed., July 18 - Leighton & Lousiaska

Friday, July 20 - FSAF Tundra Flutes

Wed., July 25 - Fairbanks Community Jazz Band

Friday, July 27 - FSAF Brass Ensemble

Vernon Nash Classic Car Exhibition

June 2, 2007 - June 3, 2007

Saturday 10 am-8 pm

Sunday 11 am-5 pm

Carlson Center

Adults $4; Kids under 12, free

Bring the family out to see the antique cars of all shape, sizes, and colors. They're awesome, and provide for a great starter conversation on history and how things were in different eras. Plus they're really cool, and make you think Fonzie must be behind the wheel of one of them!

(907) 451-7800

Wild Arts Walk

Design Alaska 2nd Annual 2007 Wild Arts Walk!

Friends of Creamer's Field

Saturday June 2nd

Noon - 5pm

Creamer's Field Refuge

1300 College Road

$10 for individuals

or $25 for families

Admission includes a hot beverage, pastry, and a complementary mug (one per family)

452-5162

Kids and Teens book sale!

Forget-Me-Not Books

517 Gaffney Road

Summer Reading Sale

Sale good May 29-June 9th

All books for Kids, Teens, and Young Adults will be 50% off!!!

Each family will recieve a package of forget-me-not seeds with their purchase during the sale.

Go buy some books for the kids, save money, and support the Literacy Council of Alaska.

456-6210

Chena Lakes Rec Area

Chena Lakes Public Recreation Area

I list Chena Lakes when it's hot, to remind you of a gorgeous place to take the family to cool off, and go swimming or boating.

The cost for a vehicle full is $4.00 ($1.00 per person if you bike, bus, or walk)

My favorite part of Chena Lakes is the clean and inexpensive boat rental.

They have canoes, row boats, pedal boats, and kayaks. They provide life vests, paddles or oars.

You need to leave your drivers license (or ID), and have an adult sign a consent form.

Then boat around the lake to picnic sites or camping spots. It's a non-motorized like, so it's a peaceful and calm day spent on the water.

Prices:

Canoe $6/hour $24/day

Row boat $8/hour $32/day

Pedal boat $10/hour $40/day

Kayak $6/hour $24/day

488-1655 for more info

Pick-Up Hockey for teens may 30

Big Dipper Ice Arena

Pick-Up/Shinny Hockey

Held every Wednesday beginning May 30, 2007

Ages: 12-14 3:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.

Ages: 15-17 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m

There must be one adult on the ice during each session*

Full USA Hockey approved gear **

Cost: $3.50 per person*