SocialMeeting
July "technical" meeting
Social/potluck of sorts/outside time
Thursday July 12th
6 pm
Park near Steve Fox's house, same place as our June social last year
Bring your friends, family, food w/ serving utensil, frisbees, kites, boomerangs, juggling stuff, badminton net, etc, plus your own beverages and place settings. Sign up below. No wiki privileges? Contact Tina or Steve Fox to get privileges or to write in for you.
| Name | # of self/family/friends | Food | Games/toys |
| Tina Wood | 1 | vanilla ice cream | frisbee, boring kite |
| Steve Fox | 3 | unsure | ladder golf, frisbee, duct tape |
| Your name here |
Suggestions for future socials
If you like the idea, please let us know!
Outdoors
-Paintball
-Mini golf
-Canoe trip (this would have to be at least a half day trip to the Root River)
-Ice cream social
-Kite flying
-Picnic
-Frisbee golf
-Walk
-Roadside or river litter cleanup
-Geocaching - perhaps we can borrow some devices and have several practice caches set up, or perhaps we can team up to find some more challenging targets. Probably also a multi-hour social.
-Snow tubing and/or skiing at Steeplechase
Indoors
-Bowling
-Whistle Binkies / Westfire / Beetles / other locations with adult beverages but still smoke free
-Xgames
-Movies, such as Deja Vu
-Discussion of experience of being an election judge, next time we meet someplace that's not too loud
-Board games. Some members are fans of Robo Rally
-your suggestion here, please
Bowling, Saturday March 24th
The March KLUG social will be bowling at Recreation Lanes (100% smoke free), on Saturday March 24th. Bowling will be noon-2 pm (Thunder Alley style, with loud music, blacklights, strobes/light show), arriving slightly early will allow us to get a lane together, get bowling shoes, pick out balls, etc, and take advantage of the entire 2 hour window for bowling.
Introduction to Curling, Saturday January 20th
The January KLUG social will be an introduction to curling. As the nearest curling barn is in Owatonna, it will require a minimum of a half day commitment. It will be Saturday January 20th from 1-3 pm (plus 1 hour drive each way). This may be extended slightly past 3 pm if there is continuing interest and stamina as well as ice availability, and/or socializing afterwards at an Owatonna restaurant. (IBM Crew suggests hitting Cabellas restaurant for Buffalo Burgers afterwards!)
The event on the 20th was a success, here are some CurlingPics
What is curling? Curling is a sport played on ice, involving both physical skill and strategy. The basics can be picked up quickly by anyone, from kids to retirees. For the purposes of this introductory session, please do not bring children who do not have at least a 2 hour attention span or are under ~90 pounds (you have to shift stones that weigh 42 pounds).
The two hour session will include both classroom and hands-on instruction.
There is no direct cost for this instruction, although donations towards ice maintenance would be happily accepted. Indirect costs include gas to get to Owatonna, a meal or snack out afterwards if anyone desires, and signing your life away (waiver). You also have to put in the time ahead of time to clean the bottoms of a pair of tennis shoes that you can *carry* into the curling barn for use on the ice.
What to bring:
-Clean tennis shoes to be CARRIED in (you must wear a different pair of shoes/boots to get to the curling barn). Attack the soles of your shoes with a letter opener or other mildly sharp and pointed object, removing every little stone from between the cracks. Then wash the bottom of your shoes using soap and water. Dry thoroughly. This is to remove anything that can scratch or melt the ice surface. I recommend doing this the night before.
-Wear loose, warm, layered clothes. We're going to be on ice, and want to use as much flexibility as our bodies have. Jeans don't work well, sweat pants are a much better choice.
-Family, friends, coworkers (sign them up ahead of time)
-A smile!
Other items to note:
-There is no smoking in the curling barn
-You MUST have clean shoes to be allowed on the ice
-Curling is a gentleman's sport. Good sportsmanship will be practiced at all times, and therefore cursing is not allowed.
-Carpooling is encouraged. A good place to carpool from is the south east corner of the Cinemagic (Stadium 12) theatre, near Westfire.
-I'm not a certified curling instructor. If you want a certified instructor, there are certified instructors who occasionally teach at Burnsville (http://www.dakotacurlingclub.org/), but these happen rarely. Usually people join the sport by attending semi-organized or impromptu introductory sessions taught by other curlers, such as this one.
Directions:
The drive takes about an hour. Do NOT use Mapquest to find the Owatonna Curling Club, you'll end up in a residential district. The curling barn is in the Steele County Fairgrounds, immediately north of the 4 Seasons Ice Rink. To get there:
-Take Hwy 14 West to Owatonna
-Take the County 45 (Cedar Avenue) exit (I believe this is the second of the three Owatonna exits), go north (right)
-Take the second right (east), onto County 39 aka 18th Street SE. This is an intersection with a stoplight.
-Go one short block, turn north (left) onto South Elm Street. You should now be going by the grandstand at the Steele County Fairgrounds (on your right).
-Just after the stop sight, and immediately north of the Four Seasons ice rink, turn left (west) into the parking lot. It's the unassuming building set back from the road with a sign that says "Owatonna Curling Club", and the traditional multicolored concentric circles (called a house).
-Come on in! Please wipe/stomp your feet as much as possible as you enter, keeping debris out of the curling barn is important.
To sign up, please add yourself to the sign up sheet (below). If you need wiki write access, please email the list. Otherwise you can send an email directly to me with this information, I can update the wiki for you.
Primary date: Saturday January 20th
| Name | # including family | # of nonfamily | Carpooling? Driver/passenger/either |
| Tina Wood | 1 | 0 | Not this time |
| Jim Evans | 1 | 1 | |
| Eldon Nelson | 1 | 0 | either |
| Tim Massaro | 1 | 0 | |
| Amber |