Let the Easter Eggs roll

If you have young kids, mark your calendars for 1-3 p.m. Saturday, March 27, at Glen Park. That’s when an Easter Egg Hunt, sponsored by the River Falls Lions and the university’s Falcon Fellows, will be held. A free, public, Easter Egg Hunt was once a tradition in River Falls, but there hasn’t been one for more than a decade.

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Spring forward this weekend

Get ready to turn manual clocks forward by an hour prior to 2 a.m. Sunday, March 14, when daylight-saving time begins.

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Book Report: Even in the ’50s enquiring minds wanted to know

When I was growing up in small town Wisconsin, the most exciting event that happened was the arrival at Fortun’s Drug Store of Confidential magazine, the pulpy forerunner of the National Enquirer and other rags that glut the entries of every supermarket checkout counter in America.

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Wood Working: On the road: Champagne taste on a beer budget

Beautiful Wife and I have made a career of going to places on the cheap.

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UW-RF hosts ‘Bowls of Hope’ to combat homelessness

UW-River Falls will host “Bowls of Hope,” a charity event benefitting Our Neighbors’ Place, at 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 24, in the Riverview Ballroom of the University Center.

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Aruban reunion

Submitted photo Friends in the River Falls High school class of 1978 traveled to Aruba in January to celebrate the members’ 50th birthdays.

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Area Events (March 11)

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Quilts and memories combine

This year’s annual quilt show at the River Falls Public Library also includes memorabilia collected by Jere Sears of River Falls.

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River Falls Events (March 11)

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Artsminded: Water crisis addressed by artists

“Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.” So reflected Samuel Taylor Coleridge in this memorable and prescient poetic line from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

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"Lucky Dollar, Private Eye" musical on March 11-12

"Detective Lucky Dollar hasn't had a client in over two years. He's hungry. Pandora Sugarland, who can't keep her own name straight, shows up with a weird tale about a weird boyfriend who may or may not be dead... and what has any of this to do with that statue of a California Chicken sitting on Lucky's desk?"

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Friends of Freedom Park fundraiser this Saturday

PRESCOTT—The fifth annual Taste of Freedom fundraiser will be from 3:30-7 p.m. Saturday at the Great River Road Visitor and Learning Center in Prescott.

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Hubbers’ comedy show fundraiser March 20

HAGER CITY—The Ellsworth Hubbers’ fourth annual baseball comedy show fundraiser will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 20, at The Bluffs Bar and Grill in Hager City.

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Raffle offers chance to see Bon Jovi live

The River Falls-based Sexual Assault Response Team holds a raffle drawing 1 p.m. March 24 for a package deal to see the rock band Bon Jovi in concert during its upcoming tour coming to the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.

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Beds will roll for St. Patty’s Day

Businesses in downtown River Falls, along with the Chamber of Commerce and Tourism, organized a St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Anyone can participate, and most everyone will want to watch.

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