Ski Sprites

Check out Eau Claire's own water ski team, the Ski Sprites, performing every Sunday and Wednesday on Lake Altoona at 6:30PM!

They also offer water ski lessons, and welcome new ski team members.  See their website Ski Sprites

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Summertime Music

You can fill your summer with music in Eau Claire. 

On Thursdays you have two choices.  There is the Sounds Like Summer concert series sponsored by Volume One.  Local bands will preform from 6:30PM to 8:30PM every Thursday night during June, July and August in Pioneer Park.  Check Volume One's website for lists of bands and more Sounds Like Summer  This event is free.

Also on Thursday evenings you can head over to the Sarge Boyd Bandshell at Owen Park and hear the Eau Claire Municipal Band perform show tunes, TV/movie themes, light classical, contemporary, and more. The concerts are every Thursday through August 2nd at 7:30PM, and are free for the whole family.  Learn more about the Eau Claire Municipal Band here

For music on the weekend be at the Haas Fine Arts Center at UW-Eau Claire for their Summer Sounds series.  Enjoy performances by faculty, students and guest on Sundays, June 24th - July 29th, at 2PM.  These events are free and open to the public.  Click here for the concert schedule Summer Sounds

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Beaver Creek Reserve

The Beaver Creek Reserve, located in Fall Creek, has more than 400 acres of "upland woods, river bottom forests, wetlands, and savannah areas". This beautiful natural area also has a nature center, citizen science center, butterfly house, observatory, youth camp, obstacle course, maple sugar shack, nature store, field research station, and charter science school. With events and activties going year round: bird watching, hiking, archery, skiing, star gazing, butterfly counting, camping and many more, the Beaver Creek Reserve is truly a wildlife treasure worth visiting.

This Sunday, May 20th from 1PM-4PM, is the Bluebird Festival held at the Hickory Hills Golf Course. Enjoy a hike on a Bluebird trail and then get your own Bluebird Birdhouse.  Proceeds will help Beaver Creek Preserver continue it's work on the Bluebird Resoration Project.  See the event poster Bluebird Festival at Hickory Hills

Check out the Beaver Creek Reserve for more upcoming events and activities beavercreekreserve.org

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Time for Jazz in Eau Claire

The Eau Claire Jazz Festival is just around the corner, March 29th to April 1st.  Special Guest Artists for this 45th annual event include John Patitucci and Andy Martin.

Don't miss these new additions to the Jazz Festival! The Kick Off Party on Thursday 6:30PM-9PM at Stella Blues, a Vocal Jazz Concert Friday 2PM in the Schofield Auditorium at UW Eau Claire, and the "Wake up to Jazz" Brunch Sunday in Porters Restaurant at the Ramada Convention Center.

See the full weekend lineup of events, activities, venues and buy your tickets here Eau Claire Jazz Festival

If you can't wait for next weekend, you can get a head start at the Jazz Festival Art Crawl going on now through April 2nd at the Brent Douglas Artist Gallery, or visit the Acoustic Cafe Saturday March 24th 7PM-10PM and enjoy the Equinox Jazz Group or Wednesday March 28th 7PM-9PM for the Wednesday Night Jazz Session.

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Christmas Day Feasts

If you don't want to cook this Christmas Day, you don't need to!

Start out with breakfast at the Altoona VFW Breakfast 9AM to Noon. All you can eat $7/adults and $4/kids. Share your meal with local Veterans!

Around noon time head to Culvers for their Christmas Day Lunch from 11:30AM to 1:30PM. Enjoy chicken, fries, cole slaw, roll, drink and Culver's frozen custard! All are welcome. Suggested donation $5, proceeds go to the Salvation Army and Hope Gospel Mission.

Looking for a bigger meal? Head to Fanny Hill for their Annual Christmas Day Grand Buffet: made to order waffles, omelets, salad bar, homemade pastries, desserts, chef carved turkey and ham, roast beef, chicken, and more. Get the details on their website Fanny Hill

Happy Feasting! And from all of us at BuyWisconsinLand.com, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy 2012.

Borrow an iPad from the Library

Blog Article by John Biggs technocrunch.com

The denizens of the green dells of Wisconsin are a bit happier these days, at least in Eau Claire (French for “City Of Very Nice, Quiet People Who Will Smile At You”). The L.E.Philips Memorial Library is now lending out iPads for weekly stints, allowing the good, country stock of Eau Claire to enjoy Apple’s finest between two Sundays. They are also available for in-library use.

Full Article Eau Claire Library Lending iPads

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