1.  Concerts in the Park and Dancing in the Pavilion

         Rustys Rockin Jamboree was the performance. It was a beautiful evening and we had a pretty decent turnout considering it was mostly for the kids.

         After the concerts, there was dancing, dance lessons and music requests in the Pavilion. Man oh man, was that joint jumpin. Tory Schaefer was the D.J. spinning lots of swing music in the beginning. He brought with him some of the cast members of the Guys & Dolls production hes directing in Buffalo next month at the high school. These people were extremely talented and helped with dance lessons as well as dancing with some of us there in attendance. Around 9:00 we were treated to a sneak preview to one of their numbers in the show. It was a lot of fun.

         Reminder that the next Pavilion event Salsa in the Park is July 27^th after the Jayber Crow concert.

2. Petals and Palate Garden tour and Luncheon

         Questionnaires are coming back from the garden owners and most interviews are over. The next step will be putting this information together in the packet that will be given to the tourists. Wendy and Laura will try to get this completed.

         Laura will be contacting the garden owners to see if they want to do a group tour on Friday evening July 6^th. Ardis Nelson and Sherry Sweetnam have volunteered to drive.

         There may only be 5 gardens to tour instead of 6. Diane Swanson (on Sylvia) had severe hail damage last week and the majority of her blooming plants were depleted. We are waiting for her to confirm that she is pulling out of this years event and hopefully she will be back for next year. Here are the themes of the gardens:

o       Jerry Johnson Minntucket Garden

o       Fairhaven Farms-Cock-A-Doodle Sunflower

o       Swansons TBD

o       Susan Hankerson is working on the tablescapes and centerpieces for these gardens.

o       Susan Envey Shabby Chic

o       Susan Envey will be doing her own tablescape and Charlene Schaefer is helping with the centerpiece.

o       Balfours -   Clearwater Renaissance

o       Charlene Schaefer is working on the tablescapes and centerpieces for these gardens with the Balfours.

o       Stumpfs Gourd-geous Garden

o       Laura and Sherry will be helping with the tablescapes and centerpiece.

         We heard that Betty Anderson mentioned that it might be fun for some of the artists in her classes to be painters at the different gardens. Laura is going to confirm with her whether this is a doable situation and all artists are 100% in agreement. If so, well need to do some bio sheets to include with the tourist packet. This will be the additional perk of not having an extra garden this year.

         We are still looking for donations from local business to use in our chance drawings at Fairhaven Farms. If you can get prizes and need donation receipts, please contact Wendy Webb (274-2745). We are working on three themed chance baskets this year: Garden Theme, Wine and Entertainment and the Its all about me basket, so keep that in mind when asking for donations. Laura has the chance tickets.

         Charlene Schaeffer has poster board and will start drawing posters for the gardens but we are looking for volunteers to put the posters together. (Charlene, I forgot to call you today but I have at least 20 different colors for poster board so let me know if you need me to drop them off Wendy)

         We will need at least 16 signs to put out for map directions if Swansons participates. Less if they dont. Some will need to be double sided. Wendy Webb asked Vicki Greene if she could lend us a few and she said she could give us 6 more signs to use.

         Laura has submitted press releases to the Advocate, Maple Lake and Kimball papers. We will be running ads for the Petals and Palates tour in the Advocate this year.

Please spread the word and try to sell tickets!! Laura has them available at the Snooty Fox.

Our next Arts & Culture meeting will be Thursday July 5^th at 5:00 to tie up any loose ends of the Petals and Palate Event. Well be meeting at the Snooty Fox.