Dog & Owner Costume Contest

Dog & Owner Costume Contest

Golden Days

Wednesday July 18th, 2007

7:30pm

Newsminer Tent at Pioneer Park.

Dogs and owners dress alike for the Golden Days Kick off Party.

Dogs on leashes. The grand prize winner of this contest will be featured on the Fairbanks Dog Park float during the Parade on Saturday.

Entry Deadline July 19th!

Last minute!!
Golden Days' Coloring Contest and Essay Contest
Entry Deadline Thursday, July 19th 4:00pm

Under 5 - stop by the Newsminer tent at Pioneer Park during Golden Days and pick up your picture of Alaska's resources to color.

Ages 5-10 - draw and color your own picture of Alaska's resources

Ages 11-14 and 15-19 (middle and high school) Write a short story or essay, 500 words or less, about Alaska's resources.

Bring your entries to the Newsminer Tent at Pioneer Park or the Newsminer office (200 N. Cushman)

Best drawing in the 5-10 yr old division will be published in the Youth Section, Friday, July 28th.

golden days kick off

Golden Days Kick off event

July 18th, 2007 Wednesday

Pioneer Park

5:30pm - 10pm

FREE ADMISSION

Straight from the Chamber of Commerce website:

Enjoy many musical performances, FREE hot dogs, chips and sodas compliments of the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce and the Fairbanks Curling Lions.

The Boys & Girls Club will be serving food and providing children's activities. Have a beverage from the Saloon as you watch the Golden Days Periode Costume Contest, the Miss Ricki & Felix Pedro Look-A-Like Contest and the Mt. McKinley Bank Fashion Show. KTVF Channell 11 wil be there airing the 6pm news LIVE with event updates throughout the evening!

Contest registration: 5:00pm - 6:45pm. (All contests and times are subject to change without notice.)

Golden Days

There is a lot going on in July, so be sure to browse all the way down the page so you don't miss a single fun event!

I'd love some photos of kids/families having fun in Fairbanks to publish on the blog!!

Create a great day!

Library Berry Room

Noel Wien Library

Creek Sisters (Berry Room)
July 17th 2007 Tuesday

2:00 pm

The library website tells us the Eva and Rosie are back, and will entertain kids in the Berry Room, but it's a mystery as to what they've cooked up. It also states "don't do it on an empty stomach". Sounds mysterious to me!! Go check it out, and post a comment on kid alaska about what it was all about!

This event is part of the Summer Reading "Get a Clue" program. Sign your young ones up, if you haven't already.
For more information, you may call the Berry Room at 459-1052.

Intertribal Powwow

Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow 2007

July 13-15th

To be held in the open field behind the Carlson Center (2010 -2nd Avenue)

Schedule:

Friday, July 13 (5 – 11pm)

5pm Gates Open

5:30pm Blessing of the Grounds

6pm Grand Entry

6:30- 10:30 pm Powwow Dancing

10:30pm Closing

Saturday, July 14 (11am – 5pm/ 6:30 – 11pm)

11:00 am: Gates Open

12:00 noon: Grand Entry

12:30-2:00 pm Powwow Dancing

2pm: Traditional Game (nilee zhruk)led by Rev. Chief David Salmon, Traditional Chief / Athabascan People of Interior Alaska

3:00-5:00 pm: Powwow Dancing/ Closing

(5:30pm? Potlatch for Participants and Invited Guests)

6:30pm Grand Entry

7pm – 8:30pm Alaska Native Dance Groups Perform

8:30 – 10:30pm Powwow Dancing

Sunday, July 15 (11am – 5pm)

11:00 am: Gates Open

12:00 noon: Grand Entry

12:30 pm Powwow Dancing

2:00 pm: Ceremonial Eagle Release

Classic Car Show

Golden Days Show 'N Shine Classic Car Show

July 18th, 2007 Wednesday

5pm - 10pm

FREE ADMISSION

Pioneer Park

The Vernon L. Nash Antique Auto Club will have an array of classic cars & trucks all shined up and on display. Proud vehicle owners will be on hand to tellyou everything you'd like to know about their beautiful, prized possessions.

Old Tyme games

Golden Days Old Tyme Games

July 18th, 2007 Wednesday

6:30pm - 10pm

FREE ADMISSION

Pioneer Park

Some of the Pioneer's favorite games to compete in are back! Sign up for the double log saw, wood splitting, pie eating, arm wrestling or seed spitting contest and more, to win cash prizes.

Sign up at the Kick-Off Party from 5:30pm - 6:30pm. (All contests and times are subject to change without notice.)

6:30 Log Splitting

7:00 Seed spitting (Adults & Kids)

7:30 Log Sawing

8:00 Pie Eating contest (Adults & Kids)

8:30 Nail Driving

Pedro weigh in

Golden Days Felix Pedro Weigh-in

re-enactment

6:00pm

July 18th, 2007 Wednesday

FREE ADMISSION

Dancer's Hall @ Pioneer Park

A re-enactment of Felix Pedro's walk into town after his discovery of gold on July 22nd, 1902. See history re-made as Felix leads his burro through Gold Rush Town, stopping at the Ole Time Denali State Bank where his "gold poke" will be weighed in.

Mysteries in Nature

Mysteries in Nature

July 13th 2007 Friday

10:30 am

Noel Wien Library Berry Room



A hands-on, fun look at mysteries in nature, for children ages 3 and up, with local author Debbie Miller. Debbie is a Fairbanks' treasure! Her books are fantastic and educational with beautiful images. Please take the kids to the library for a fun fun fun Friday morning!

Debbie's books will be available for purchase and signing.

459-1052

Storytime at the Library

Pajama Storytime

Noel Wien Library - Berry Room

July 12th 2007 Thursday

7:00 pm

This is for the 3-10 year olds. Have them put on their pj's and slippers and come and let the wonderful librarians in the Berry Room read them a bedtime story. You still have to read one at home, if they're awake from the car ride home.


No registration is required, just show up!

Free.

Here's some info. from the library website:

Hearing impaired attendees who need interpreter assistance should contact the Berry Room at least one week before a scheduled program to arrange interpreter service. This free program is offered as part of the Library's Get A Clue @ Your Library Summer Reading program. Sign-up in the Summer Reading Program is encouraged for all Pajama Storytime attendees. You may sign up for the Summer Reading Program at the Berry Room of the Noel Wien Library. For more information, you may call the Berry Room at 459-1052.

Shakespeare Play

"Anthony & Cleopatra" - A tragic romance for the ages

July 11, 2007 - July 29, 2007

Thursday-Sat., 7:30 pm;

Sunday, 2 pm

Jack Townsend Point (behind the Natural Sciences Facility on UAF Campus)

Adults, $18

Military/seniors/UAF students, $15

Under 18, free

What a great chance to take the older kids out to live outdoor theater. The Theatre group always puts on an entertaining dramatic event set in the lovely Fairbanks landscape. Somehow a play is just so much more exciting when out in the wild!!

Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre presents William Shakespeare’s "Antony and Cleopatra," a powerful epic of love and war. Directed by Graham Watts, this outdoor stage production is an annual event of FST and is presented in conjunction with UAF Summer Sessions.

Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre

(907) 457-POET

Book Festival

1st Annual Book Festival

A UAF Summer Sessions Event

July 13, 2007 - July 14, 2007

Free UAF Summer Sessions, in cooperation with Rasmuson Library

and University of Alaska Press,

presents the first ever Alaska Book Festival.

The festival features 25+ Alaskan authors whose writings cover a wide range of genres. Readings, book signings, workshops,

and lectures are scheduled throughout

the community.

(907) 474-7021

Email: summer@uaf.edu

Book Festival for the full schedule

July 13th Friday

10:00-11:30
Children's Program and Book Signing with Debbie Miller (Noel Wien Public Library)
Mysteries in Nature: Open to families and children of all ages!

July 14th Saturday

10:00-11:30
Children's Program and Book Signing with David Monson (Wood Center, UAF)

july 5 Fairbanks Climate Conversations

Fairbanks Climate Conversations

7/7/07 at 7:00pm SATURDAY

Door prizes!!! Potluck!! Fun and educational!!

Ken Kunkel Goldstream Community Center

(University to Ballaine. Turn LEFT onto Goldstream Rd. Follow past Goldstream store/Ivory Jacks. The community center is on the LEFT after the store...look for the sign.)

We will be watching the televised Live Earth concert on NBC - a seven continent concert featuring musical acts like The Police, Kelly Clarkson, and Dave Matthews Band. The concerts are being held to raise awareness of global warming.

This is a family potluck event to bring awareness to global warming to our community, and to learn solutions and actions you can take to reduce your family's carbon footprint. This is a non-partisan issue, that must have action starting locally with you and your family, to make a difference.

There is a playground and activities for the kids!!

BYOM (bring your own mug, to reuse)

Carpool if possible - meet at the Farmers Loop UAF Taku parking lot at 6:30pm (at the shuttle shack) to share a ride.

Contact Lori at Northern Alaska Environmental Center

452-5021 x 27 for more information

Fairbanks 4th of July

4th of July

Pioneer Park

Kids' parade 2:30pm

Craft bazaar 11am - 5pm

kids' games from 1:30 - 2:30 and 3:30 - 4:30

kids' parade 2:30-3:00 (Moore street gate)

kids' crafts 1:30 - 2:30

Ceremonies begin at noon with presentation of the colors, the national anthem, and the pledge of allegiance, and a fly over from Eielson Air Force at 2:00pm. Next are patriotic speeches, music, the heart-tugging rifle salute, and closing words.

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Shuttle service between Carlson Center and Pioneer Park 10:30 - 5:00

There will be bands playing throughout the day.

North Pole 4th of July Celebration

North Pole Community 4th of July Celebration

July 4, 2007

10 am

There will be food, activities, and a parade.

Also, the Mayor's picnic, kids' fishing derby, and a 5th Avenue Block Party.

(907) 488-2242 for more info.

Eielson Soaring Solstice Open House

Soaring into Solstice Open House

Saturday June 23, 2007

10:30am - 7:00pm

Army exhibition of Stryker vehicles, working dog demonstrations and various aircraft - B-52, A-10 and F-16 - performing fly-bys and simulated airfield attacks.

Also music, food and drinks.

Parts of the Richardson Highway will be closed during the event, and also during demonstration practices on June 21.

Summer Solstice Walk

Summer Solstice Walk

Friends of Creamers Field

June 23, 2007 Saturday

10:00am

Start at Creamer's Field Farmhouse

Free!!

Midnight Sun Run

25th Midnight Sun Run - 10 K run / walk

Saturday June 23, 2007

10:00 PM

UAF Patty Center

Mostly flat course from the University of Alaska (UAF)to Alaskaland (Pioneer Park), on local roads & bike paths

Complete information - maps, entry forms, etc. on the Midnight Sun Run page

4 PM to race start: Race day registration at - $30

T-shirts for all entrants

june23 child Triathalon

Parent/child Walk, Bike, Wet Noodle Triathlon at Chena Lakes

A Just For Kids, Inc. fundraiser

10AM

Saturday June 23, 2007

$35 entry fee for each team, this includes a Tshirt for the child and entry in the park. There will be 3 different groups depending on the age of the child.

The walk is approximately 1.6 miles, the bike is about 2.5 miles and there is a short "swim" with the team riding on noodles.

The registration forms are at the alaska club Fairbanks on the old rich hwy. More info call 490-6722