Household chores paid off as local Primrose Kindergarten class raised $768.98 to donate 715 pound of food to help serve a holiday feast to Eagan area families.
Follow Eagan Patch on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our daily newsletter| Blog for us Editor's Note: The following is a press release from Primrose School of Eagan. Demonstrating their commitment to giving to others, Primrose School of Eagan recently helped feed hungry families throughout the Eagan area. On Thursday, Nov. 29, the Kindergartener class donated 715 pounds of food to the Eagan Resource Center, a local food pantry for families in need. "Children from Primrose Schools across the nation participated in food drives over the past month, but they did much more than simply bring in items from their parents' pantry,” says Diane Storkamp, Primrose School of Eagan owner. “The students earned money by completing extra …
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Sample wines and beers while listening to jazz music and contributing to a good cause.
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Editor's Note: The following is a press release from the Eagan Foundation. The Eagan Foundation invites area residents and employees to its 11th annual Wine Tasting and Silent Auction on April 19, 2012, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Eagan Community Center, 1501 Central Parkway, Eagan. Join neighbors, friends, and business associates in support of the Eagan community and our students. The event will feature samplings of a variety of wines from the Kowalski's Wine Shop. For beer lovers, Granite City will offer tastings of their microbrewery beers. Kowalski’s also caters the grand cuisine buffet. While sampling beverages, guests can listen to jazz musician Kevin Gamble on the keyboards and shop the dozens of silent auction items from area …
Pre-K children raise more than $700 for Eagan Resource Center through school's first 'Can-A-Thon'.
A group of Pre-Kindergarteners from the newly-opened Primrose School of Eagan were put to work in November and their efforts resulted in more than $700 in ‘wages’. Children from the educational child care facility were tasked with earning money through completing chores at home in an effort to raise money for donations to the Eagan Resource Center. Their efforts helped supply the local food shelf with much-needed pantry supplies to help meet a nearly doubling of demand from hungry families during the holidays. The Eagan Resource Center recently announced it was expanding their hours during the holidays to help meet that demand. Part of the focus here at Primrose School of Eagan is to help our children become active helpers in a world …
