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Little League Baseball, Comics, and Nutcracker - 8/12/15

Huge Dinosaur
This year celebrates the 54th year of the Auburn Gold Country Fair.  From livestock and agricultural, floriculture and horticulture exhibits to the thrilling rides and entertainment, the small town of Auburn delivers a BIG fair experience!

Auburn Gold Country Fair
Gold Country Fairgrounds
Today & Tomorrow
GoldCountryFair.com

Pigskin Peanuts
"Pigskin Peanuts," a national traveling exhibit from the Charles M. Schulz Museum & Research Center in Santa Rosa, CA, will open at the California Museum for today only!

California Museum
Sacramento
(916) 653-7524
Today: 10am-2pm
CaliforniaMuseum.org
Pigskin Peanuts Exhibit

Wilton Firefighter Day
The Wilton Fire Association is raising money for the city of Wilton with a chili cook-off and car show.

10am-6pm
Fog Willow Farms 11011
Cecatra Drive in WIlton

Sacramento Ballet Nutcracker Auditions
It's that time of the year where thousands of kids in the Sacramento area are coming together for one reason. The Sacramento Ballet's Nutcracker Auditions! Today 17th & K Street will be swarming with kids who will try to be cast in one of the 500+ children's roles for Sacramento Ballet's 2015 production of The Nutcracker. Kids from all over the area come to audition for this much-anticipated show!

Sacramento Ballet Studio
Today & Tomorrow
(916) 552-5800 extension 2.
www.sacballet.org

Crawfish & Catfish Festival
Today people have the opportunity to get a taste of some authentic food of the South at the Crawfish and Catfish festival! Some of the savory foods include Crawfish, Catfish, Alligator, Oysters, Shrimp, Frog Legs, Calamari, Meat Pies, Gumbo, Jambalaya, PoBoys, Crawfish Sushi & Tacos, Louisiana Desserts and so much MORE!

Yolo County Fairgrounds
Woodland
Today & Tomorrow: 11am-6pm
916-962-6415
www.louisianasue.com

2015 Mediterranean Food & Music Festival
Every year the Holy Virgin Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church puts on a LOVELY li'l Mediterranean Food Festival. It features dancing, food, and coffee. Cody's family goes every year. It starts at noon BUT Rev. Fr. Paul Baba will give us a tour of the church (the artwork is UNBELIEVABLE).

Holy Virgin Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church
West Sacramento
Today: 11am-10pm
Sun: Noon-7pm
(916) 372-7776
Event page

Front Street Donation Drive
The Front Street Animal Shelter needs your help! Today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. they want us to clean out our closets and bring in gently used clothes, shoes, jewelry, linens, toys and more to donate! All donations are given to ReUseIt.org, a non-profit that helps make a difference locally!

2200 Front Street
Sacramento
Today: 10am-2pm
reuseit.org
City of Sacramento animal care

Grape Harvest
A lot of work goes into that bottle of wine you drink on wine down Wednesdays! Today we are getting a look at the process from vineyard to vintner. Have you ever wondered what it takes to manage a wine vineyard? Or actually harvest the grapes? Heather Brent is at a local vineyard finding out all the details.

Clay Station Vineyard
13650 Borden Rd.
Lodi
Website

1/2 way to St. Patrick's Celebration
You know you love St. Patrick's Day when you HAVE to celebrate the fact that it is six months away. It's like a half St. Paddy's Day! Ollie's Pub is doing just that, a huge celebration with food, live music, and some green beer in honor of the half way mark to St. Patricks Day. Heather is there celebrating her Irish heritage! (or just her love of beer!!)

Ollie's Pub
22 N School St.
Lodi
(209) 333-9933
www.olliespublodi.com

TravelZoo
www.travelzoo.com/tv/Sacramento

Bonnie from Triad
Today our favorite Triad Plus employee Bonnie our crafty maven is back for her monthly visit making. Today she's showing us how to make owl/chicken pin cushions or they can be owl/chicken potpourri cushions.

Triad Plus
8801 Washington Blvd
Roseville
(916) 788-4350
www.triadplushomefashions.com

HUSH Baby Hats
A new way put your baby to sleep and know that no loud sounds are going to disturb them while sleeping. The HUSH Hat is a sound absorbing infant hat created to soften sounds that wake sleeping babies, and offers great hearing protection.

www.shophushbaby.com
Instagtam @shophushbaby
Facebook.com/shophushbaby

Farrago Comics
Go to www.farragocomics.com and download the app to read Kid Lightspeed for free.
www.aaronthomasnelson.com/KidLightspeed

 

Woodcreek Little League
From the beginning to the end, the 10-11 year old Woodcreek All-Star baseball team proved that they deserve to be the state champions...AGAIN! Last August in Sonora, the 9-10 year team won the Division 2 State Title by beating Chico Eastside 5-0. The team sailed through Divisions without experiencing a single loss before winning the state championship game.
woodcreeklittleleague.com

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