Walk on Waconia 2008

Posted on April 20, 2008 by Thomas

Saturday April 26th, Walk On Waconia will be raising money for the local food shelf. You can get out and walk around the lake; or just half way around. There is a 1 mile road race, a 5.5 mile walk and a 10 mile walk. The walk starts at 7:30am and the run starts at 8:30.

If you want to run it costs $5 if you want to walk it costs $15 and everyone gets a free T-Shirt.

You can register ahead of time or at 7am the day of the the event.

Sponsors include:

St. Joseph Catholic Church
Moravian Church
Trinity Lutheran Church

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Faith Lutheran Church
Parkside Church
Ridgeview Medical Center
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What do you say? Want to go on a walk?

Click here for a registration form.

Earth Day 2008 – Celebrate with Waconia

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Thomas

Saturday April 19th is Earth day and at 9am in Brook Peterson Park (1200 Oak Avenue) the city will be getting the parks ready for spring.

There will be a tree planting, breakfast goodies and a photo with the Tree City USA banner.

Then at about 9:30, each Adopt a Park group, and volunteers, will head off to their city parks to perform some spring cleaning. That way, when it gets really nice out, the kids will have a nice safe place to play.

Please bring your own work gloves, rakes and friends. No need for garbage bags, those will be waiting for you.

Ohh, now I think this is where we sing “Plant a tree, trees for America. Plant a tree today for all the world to see.” 🙂

New Public Works Facility Open House

Posted on April 4, 2008 by Thomas

On Saturday April 19th from 12-3pm the new Public Works facility will have an open house. You’ll get to see the new facility, meet the people and understand what they really do. There will even be snow plows, dump trucks and other big kid equipment for big and small kids to check out.

Food and beverages will be provided too. So why not come and check it out?

New Public Works Facility Open House
Saturday April 19th from 12-3pm

Fire Department Pancake, Sauage & French Toast Breakfast

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Thomas

The Waconia fire department is cooking breakfast again! Pancakes, sausage and french toast means there is something for every one. I’m getting hungry just thinking about it. 🙂

The breakfast is this Sunday, April 6th and goes from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm at the Firedepartment. Tickets are only $6 and you can get them at the door. Ohh and the food is soo good.

See you there!

What is wrong with Highway 284?

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Thomas

Have you driven on Highway 284 between Waconia and Cologne lately? That road is seriously messed up at the Waconia end. It’s like a bad rollercoaster ride where you think you’re going to cause physical damage to your car, or your passengers, at any moment.

Some may say that it’s just the frost in the road and as soon as it thaws, it’ll all go back in place. But I highly doubt that. Some roads maybe, but not a road this bad.

And wasn’t it just re-paved last year? Did something go wrong?

I now avoid the road at all costs. I’m intrigued to go farther down the road and see if it evens out a bit, but when I bottom out at 30 mph, it’s just not cool.

V.I.P. Pet Boarding and Day Care

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Thomas

Need someplace to take care of your pet when you are out of town? V.I.P. Pet Boarding and Day Care is here to help you out.

VIP Pet - Cat & Dog V.I.P. Pet Boarding and Day Care’s top priority is your pet. They accept cats, dogs, birds, turtles or any kind of pet. Even those with special needs.

They have a large, 7200 square foot building, building off of highway 5 behind Mr. Movies and next to Holiday. And they are more than willing to give free tours during business hours.

I haven’t been there myself, but will be keeping it in mind as we have a cat that needs medication twice a day. If we can’t find family to take care of him when we go on vacation, it’ll be nice to know we have a second choice.

V.I.P. Pet Boarding and Day Care
200 Highway 5 West
Waconia, MN 55387
952.442.5155
www.vippetboarding.com

Updating a neglected site.

Posted on March 9, 2008 by Thomas

It seems that I haven’t been paying enough attention to this site and numerous problems have shown up. So today, I’m fixing them.

First off, there was a serious problem in one specific post. It was so bad, that Google put an alert on search results that called us an unsafe site! OMG! I was freaking out and have spent hours researching and fixing the issue. I am confident that it’s been fixed and will get the official OK from Google hopefully soon.

Update: We’ve been cleared by Google and are no longer marked as a bad site. 😀

Second, a bunch of weird characters were showing up in posts. Not your normal US letters, odd A’s with squiggles over the top and things like that. I have cleaned up a large number of those. If you see any, let me know what post and I’ll clean them up too.

Third, the form to contact our site was gone. Yep, gone. Don’t know how, don’t know when or what happened but it was gone. It’s since been brought back and is working again.

I really don’t know what caused all these issues, but they may all be related. Then again, maybe not. However, I do feel confident that all issues have been fixed and I hope they never come back. 🙂

If you ever notice issues with the site, don’t hesitate to contact me!

Thanks
Thomas

Walgreens To Open in 2008

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Thomas

Walgreens Logo If you’ve driven down highway 5, you can’t miss the construction of the new Walgreen store. It’s located on the corner of 284 and Hwy 5 and has been making quite a few advancements over the past few months.

The new Walgreens store won’t be open anytime soon, but at the rate they build business’ these days, a late spring or summer opening shouldn’t be that hard to meet.

RadioShack comes to town.

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Thomas

Waconia will soon have someplace to go for cutting edge electronic needs. RadioShack is moving in across fro Kwik Trip in the same strip mall as Legacy Liquors.

I’m not usually a big fan of RadioShack but it’ll be a nice addition. We currently don’t have anyplace to go regarding VOIP, iPod accessories, HD TV/radios, cellphones or computer accessories. I think RadioShack will fill a nice void for our town.

RadioShack
M & M Electronics
712 Vista Dr
Waconia, MN 55387
Phone: (952) 467-1911
Opening date: Unknown

Z’s Christmas Tree Farm

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Thomas

Have you been out to Z’s yet to get your Christmas tree? We have!

Christmas Tree Farm Actually, this is only my second real Christmas tree ever and the first time I’ve ever gone to cut one. We went out on Saturday morning in the cold and snow. For newbies, Z’s was a great choice. They were friendly and told us how it’d work. We then hoped on a wagon to go out and find a tree.

Now I wasn’t to sure about cutting my own, but the saws they provided cut through that tree like a hot knife though butter. They then put it on the wagon and back to the main farm.

We were also a bit concerned about fitting it in my little Ford Focus. However, they hauled it to my car and put it in and bungeed down my trunk. They did all the work for us and we were quite impressed.

Trees are $40 for long needle, $60 for short. I don’t know how that compares as I’ve never been out to cut my own tree before, but it was the experience we paid for. And a good experience at that.

Z’s Trees also has precut Christmas trees, wreaths & roping, landscape evergreens, fireplace wood and custom log sawing.

Z’s Trees is technically in Cologne but it’s really just outside Waconia on 284. Between Highway 5 and 212.

Z’s Trees – John M Zimmerman
10850 110th Street
Cologne, MN 55322
952.466.2577
www.zstrees.com

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