Looking for a fun-filled day of flowing green beer and the chance to get out before spring? Look no further than the annual St. Patrick's Day celebrations going on around the Lake area.
Events
• St. Paddy's Day Pub Crawl
• St. Patrick's Parade on the Water
• St. Patrick's Day Parade
• St. Patrick's Day Dance
*From the March/April issue of Lake Lifestyles magazine.
On a ride longer than the Tour de France, a lake man will bicycle more than 3,000 miles to save children from the debilitating effects of the polio virus.
Fishermen — or women — cast your reels. March 1 is almost here, and with that comes trout fishing season. Anglers will get out their rods and reels at one of three Missouri state parks, including Bennett Spring State Park near Lebanon, for the opening day of trout fishing season.
The Missouri Department of Natural resources expects a good turnout for this year, as many anglers will turn the event into a three-day fishing weekend.
It was a small token of thanks Robbie Pace-Courtright was able to give. But it was enough.
A volunteer with Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Pace - Courtright thanked the Missouri State Water Patrol officers as she handed them each an award for their participation this past summer in a case study on marine field sobriety tests.
Those who are tired of new releases, or perhaps would rather see a movie that is hard to find a screening for will take refuge in the True/False Film Fest in Columbia, Feb. 25-28, 2010.
The four-night film fest is enough to stir the Indie buff in almost anyone as festival-goers have their choice among five venues and dozens of different films.
There will be a few changes at Bear Bottom Resort when it opens up this Spring. The place where families come to play and relax – day or night – is getting ready for the season.
Attention Lake-area kids, parents and the young at heart, you are about to be introduced to some glow-in-the-dark fun with a new place called Lazer Force.
With winter coming in and out of the lake area, sometimes a trip for a day isn’t enough of a getaway. Why not try a weekend trip to Chicago?
Board designates $10,000
Missouri Master Naturalist program is a community-based, adult natural resource education and volunteer program
Your mind is capable of amazing things. If you can understand how it works, it can also improve your golf game.
The numbers may make you groan. Take 36,000 laps. At 36 laps to the mile, swimming 36,000 laps at the West Lake Aquatic Center is the equivalent of swimming 1,000 miles. And if one lap is two lengths of the mini-Olympic size pool, then that’s 72,000 lengths.
That is how far Marvin and Lucy Silliman swam, as a couple, at the Laurie-Sunrise Beach Rotary Club’s indoor heated pool in 2009, averaging about 3 1/2 miles per visit.
By the numbers
36,000 laps swam by the Sillimans in 2009
3.5 miles swam per visit
5 days per week spent swimming, although sometimes it’s six
35 pounds lost by Lucy Silliman
Families heading to the Kansas City area may need some help when it comes to cost-effective ways to entertain their children inside. What they don’t know is that Kaleidoscope may be the place to fulfill all these needs.
University of Missouri Extension program begins Feb. 2
The annual Eagle Days weekend was held Jan. 9-10 at various areas around the lake. Lake dwellers turned out — and looked up — for a chance to see some of these birds of prey.
New environmental challenge from the Celebrate Urban Birds project invites participants to show how birds are surviving in their neighborhoods this winter
