Labor Day Fun At The Fair Or Festival

If you're looking for things to do this weekend and you love festivals, well then you're in luck! Labor day weekend is the last three days of the Minnesota State Fair. Consider visiting to get your fill of fried food on a stick and fun entertainment.

Plus the Minnesota Renaissance Festival is open all three days of the Labor Day weekend. Their weekend theme is The Silk Road: Discover the riches, which focuses on Middle-Eastern and Asian cultures.

Pool Season About To End

Labor Day is just around the corner, and that means that pool season is drawing to a close at Eagle Ridge. So don't forget to get your final splashes into the pool this weekend before the season ends. The pool will be closing on Tuesday, September 4th. We hope you've had a fun Summer, and that the pool helped provide relaxation and enjoyment.

Poolside Party Provides Plenty Of A-Moo-zment

Last Wednesday Eagle Ridge celebrated its wonderful residents by hosting its annual Poolside Party BBQ. We were happy to see so many of our residents come down for the evening and get to know each other and have a good time. The bovine themed party this year featured beef hamburgers, beef hot dogs, and ice cream with just about every topping you could imagine! The event was a great success and we had a fun time visiting with our residents.

 We took a bunch of pictures, some we'll post below, but be sure to visit our Facebook page for more photos; and while you're there give us a like!

Double Sweet! Mindy and all kinds of ice cream toppings. We had just about everything you could imagine to build your own ice cream sundae!

Taylor, one of our residents who has lived here since 2011, was the lucky winner of the drawing for the gift basket! Included was a BBQ cookbook, state fair tickets, and some great cow-themed prizes.

Cute Baby Takes Up Residence At Eagle Ridge

Back in April little baby Joshua was born to David and Kristine, residents of Eagle Ridge. Recently they decided to transfer to a two bedroom apartment and stay for another year at Eagle Ridge. We're so excited, especially because we get to see more of their cute baby around here! If you see this young family about, be sure to congratulate them on the birth of their son!

Check out a photo of the family:

New Resident Makes Home At Eagle Ridge

Please help us in welcoming Romaine to our community here at Eagle Ridge. Romaine moved into her apartment home on August 15th and we are so glad to have her here! If you see her around please be sure to extend her a warm welcome.

Welcome home, Romaine!

Romaine picking up her keys to her new home.

Painting Crew Rises To New Heights

Have you noticed all the changes around Eagle Ridge this summer? From new landscaping to parking lot repairs and tree trimming; now the patios are being cleaned and painted!

Thanks to our staff members Peter and Rick for all their hard work, they've been painting and cleaning balconies. Thank goodness they're not afraid of heights! 

You may have seen "Betsy" around Eagle Ridge lately, and she'll be at our community for a little while longer. What's Betsy? It's a 1988 boom truck that the painting crew uses to lift themselves up to the hard to reach places on the outside of our buildings. The painting crew has been working hard repainting patio decks, railings, and replacing patio boards. Be sure to give them a wave and say "High" when you see them around!

Reminder: RSVP For Eagle Ridge's Poolside Party!

Each of our residents got a special visit to their apartment from one of our staff yesterday. We were giving out a resident appreciation gift bag and a reminder to RSVP for Eagle Ridge's Poolside Party next Wednesday. We'll post the reminder below; call today to let us know if you'll be able to make it to the BBQ. Hopefully you'll be "mooved" to call or email us with your response!

Of Stooges And Good Deeds

We recently received a new batch of movies in the office and you're more than welcome to come check them out! Can you use all of the new release titles in a single sentence? The best we could come up with was "It took An Act Of Valor for The Three Stooges to look into the Mirror Mirror." Here are the new releases that were included in our latest movie library:

Pop Quiz! The Early Bird Gets What?

Congratulations to Ryan, he's our most recent resident to win the Early Bird Drawing! Remember, if you pay your rent on or before the first of the month you get your name put into the Early Bird Drawing for a chance to win $50 off the next month's rent.

When September nears remember to get your rent in early for an entry into the Early Bird Drawing!

Ryan happily showing his winning Early Bird entry.

Maple Grove Town Green Music And Movies In The Park

The city of Maple Grove has a fantastic venue for concerts and movies in the park at the Town Green outdoor amphitheater. The have a fun line-up this week. Tomorrow, The Elements, a classic rock band, will play at 7:00PM. Their music features rock hits from the 60's to today. On Friday Maple Grove's Parks and Recreation will be showing the movie 'What About Bob?' starting at sundown. The forecast for tomorrow's weather contains a chance of rain, so keep an eye out on the Town Green's Facebook page for any cancellation announcements. Friday's forecast looks clear and beautiful, a perfect day to attend a movie in the park!

For the full schedule of events happening at Maple Grove's Town Green visit the website here.

Three Cheers For Fun Month!

August is a month for fun, really! August is National Family Fun Month. What are you going to do this month for fun? Here you can find some other fun holidays in August and we’ll share some suggestions for family fun this month.

August 3rd –Watermelon Day 
Watermelon Lime Frosty (or Margarita) makes 2
3 cups watermelon, cubed and frozen
1 ripe banana, peeled and frozen
2 tablespoons agave nectar or maple syrup
Zest from 2 limes
Juice from 2 limes (about 4 tablespoons)
1/2 cup water

Blend all ingredients until smooth, adding more water as needed to keep the mixture moving. For margaritas: add 3-4 shots of silver tequila. You may want to add more watermelon than called for to thicken this up, or to make the drink appear more pink.

August 10th –S’mores Day
Did you know you can make S’mores in the oven? Just take a baking sheet, line with foil, assemble s’mores without the top graham cracker and bake until marshmallows are soft and chocolate starts to melt (you have to watch these closely it doesn’t take long at all) then just take out of the oven, top with the other graham cracker and enjoy!

August 31st –Trail Mix Day 
Plan a little fun activity with the kids or even a small family get-together and have a trail mix bar. Everyone brings their own container to take home and they can create their own trail mix wither they want to indulge in the sweets or get a nice variety of healthy nuts and seeds to start their diet off right.

Minnesota State Fair- August 23-Sep. 3 
Prices: Adults (13-64): $12, Seniors (65 & over): $10, Kids (5-12): $10
Children (Under 5): Free
It’s almost a requirement to be a good “Minnesotan” to attend the State Fair every year and don’t we love it!? Get ready for lots of fun, good entertainment and the food; oh the food... there’s nothing like it. For more information visit: www.mnstatefair.org.

Visit the Minnesota Zoo or the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory 
-The Minnesota Zoo is featuring their Dinosaur exhibit now until Sep.3 daily 9:30am-5:30pm. See fifteen of the huge animatronic dinosaurs on the Zoo’s Northern Trail. There is an additional $4.00 cost to see this exhibit, but it’s well worth it! For more information visit www.mnzoo.com
-Visit Como Park on any Wednesday in August and listen to FREE live music! Check out their Groovin’ in the Park Concert Series. For more information visit www.comozooconservatory.org.