The Sisterhood is sponsoring a breakfast on Sunday, May 20, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Ravintola: smoked salmon, toasted bagels, Breadsmith apple pie, French toast and ham, a loaded BLT, breakfast bake, seasonal fresh fruit, Greek yogurt sundae. All items are $5 each. Coffee, tea and orange. Download the menu in PDF format.
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On Saturday, May 19, join the party at 7:30 p.m. in the Clubroom. We will have a taco bar, sangria, Mexican beers and salsa dance lessons! The cost is $10 in advance for food and lessons, or $14 at the door. The dance lessons will run from 8:30 to 10:00. This event is sponsored by the Bar Committee. Hope to see all our amigos there!
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The next Voima Boys game is on Friday, May 18, at 7:25 with the Bankers Life on Finn Camp’s George Aho Field.
Since the two games on April 20 was rained out, there will be makeup games on this Sunday, May 20, at 5:40 p.m. with the Tequila Slammers and 6:50 p.m. with the Pierce Bros Power Washers. There will be softball games at George Aho Field all day on Sunday starting at 1:00. The schedule stated May 13th, but since that is Mother’s Day, we moved it to the 20th.
You can download the Wixom 35 & Over Softball League 2012 Schedule in PDF.
The Friday Night Grill will open during the softball season every Friday at 6:00 p.m. Enjoy a chicken sandwich, burger, hot dog and soft drinks while you watch a game.
Please join us in the Clubroom on Saturday, April 28, at 8:00 p.m. to welcome back Judy with the Swarovski jewelry. All items are $20. The earrings come with a 30-year guarantee on their finish. It’s the time of year to support our kids and to remember the moms, grandmas, sisters, friends and grads. These items make great gifts or to dress up whatever you wear for a party or a wedding. Why not just spoil yourself?! Look great any day, every day. See you there!
—Sue Slaughter, Fishing Derby chairperson
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Correction: there will be a vegetarian meatless marinara sauce available.
Come to this all-you-can-eat feast on Saturday, April 21, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. This dinner will benefit the Piano Fund. The menu will include a spaghetti bar with There will be a vegetarian meatless marinara, meat, alfredo sauces, a dinner salad and garlic bread, a dessert to pass and coffee. The cost for adults is only $8, children under 12 just $4. We have until the annual membership meeting April 29 to reach our goal of raising the $2,000 needed to renovate the Clubroom’s 1920s’vintage upright piano. If you can’t make the spaghetti dinner, other ways to contribute to the piano fund are to place your donation in the Clubroom’s Piano Appeal box, or send your check to the Association, made out to the:
D.F.C.S.C.A.
2524 Loon Lake Road
Wixom, MI 48393
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The Softball season is almost here. The first Voima Boys game is on Friday, April 20, at 6:15 and 7:25 on Finn Camp’s George Aho Field. You can download the Wixom 35 & Over Softball League 2012 Schedule in PDF.
Friday Night Grill will be open at 6 p.m.
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Saturday, April 14, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Where: Wixom Department of Public Works, 2041 Charms Road, Wixom, MI (map)
Open to RRRASOC residents only
Household Hazardous Waste includes a variety of common household items such as cleaners, paints, herbicides, insecticides, and solvents that exhibit the characteristics of regulated hazardous wastes such as ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity, or toxicity.Residents of our Member Communities may dispose of such materials at our household hazardous waste collection events. Those events provide residents with an opportunity to safely discard or recycle hazardous items. Residents can also bring up to 100 pounds of sensitive documents that will be shredded on site. Check the RRRASOC website for more information.
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The 2012 St. Urho’s party will be held on this Saturday, March 17, starting at 8:00 p.m. There is a $5 cover. Come enjoy a DJ, prizes, raffles, fun, food and the crowning of the new king and queen. And don’t forget to wear your purple and green, so you don’t get fined! St. Pat’s kin are very welcome too!
Join the invasive species control effort this Sunday, February 12, at ten o’clock at the sauna parking lot. We’ll be pulling up and eradicating bittersweet along the entrance road, so that the banks can be mowed and we won’t have to continue doing the heavy lifting ourselves!
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Come on out to the Finn Camp for a day of fun in the snow. We have a great list of new and old ideas to make this one of our best days ever. Once again, we will start the day with Polar Dip’n and Ice Fish’n, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the sauna. Then from 6:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. join us for the annual Chili Cook-off and dancin’ to a DJ in the Clubroom. Buttons are $5/adult, $3/child, $15/member family with the sauna being extra. The Clubroom bar opens at 2:00 p.m. While the date may still seem far off, we need lots of help to make this work. We have a Chili Master, but we still need buttons to be made, raffles and door prizes sold, nissua baked and much more.
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2012 Finnish Folk Music Camp: July 17 to 19
"Yoopera!"is a documentary film about a group of people who live in the remote Upper Peninsula of Michigan, affectionately known as yoopers, who commissioned the top librettist and composer in Finland to produce an original opera based on a little-known murder of two Finnish mining immigrants during the early 1900s in Rockland, Michigan.
