April 12, 2007

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Lubbock, get ready! THIS SUNDAY is the
OPENING HOME GAME ... April 15!
Get your tickets now and plan to join us.
This is the football you love -- but better! Faster, hard-hitting, higher scores, with Tech players you have known and prices that are very affordable with tickets starting at $12.50. With 8 season home games at the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum, the Renegades promise to bring the ultimate indoor football experience to Lubbock. We're a sports town and we deserve a team like this! Click here to visit their website and look around!

Volunteers are needed
1.) We need 15 volunteers this Sunday to help at the Football game. Must be friendly and responsible and can also be a group who enjoys working together (i.e. boyscouts, family, civic club, little league group, homeschool moms). Everyone who helps us gets a free entry to the game! Click here and let us know if you're interested asap!

2.) Next weekend, we need helpers at the Arts Festival. Care to volunteer and meet other nice people? If so, click here and let us know!

Hollywood comes to Lubbock
this Friday evening April 13
The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra’s 60th Anniversary Season continues with a pops concert, “America at the Movies,” Friday, April 13, 2007 at 8 pm at the McDonald Moody Auditorium on the Lubbock Christian University campus. Morihiko Nakahara will conduct the orchestra.

INTERESTED in the TEXAS FILM INDUSTRY?
Reception this Saturday affords chance to meet and greet. Texas Film Industry including The Video Association of Dallas (VAD), Texas Association of Film and Tape Professionals (TAFTP), Texas Motion Picture Alliance (TXMPA) and Texas Filmmakers (TF) are hosting a reception at The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts this Saturday at 7 p.m., 511 Avenue K. This is an opportunity to meet different film professionals around the state and in Lubbock and to learn more about the Texas Film Industry Community. Come visit and have a good time meeting people and watching some interesting films.

ARTS FESTIVAL IS COMING
NEXT WEEKEND and it's a full weekend of fun! April 19 - 22
Get ready to have some fun including amazing art exhibits, demonstrations, activities for children, music on a variety of stages, and some unusual things like
a 15 ton sand sculpture and sand play box, free performance by Harmes Marionettes out of Austin,
Texas Beef Council’s “Ultimate Backyard”, 30 kites on display, yummy food, and happy environment for all ages to celebrate the arts.
Click here for Master Schedule
Click here for Children's Events
Click here for other points of interest
Click here to see list of performers
Click here to print out your FREE FRIDAY ADMISSION

DON'T MISS THE BEST OF LUBBOCK RESTAURANTS at the Golden Fork!
NEXT SUNDAY - April 22.
ONLY ONE SEATING 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
GET YOUR TICKETS NOW ... we sold out last year!
“The Golden Fork” Culinary Competition is a great way to enjoy food and sample Lubbock’s best restaurants in one convenient place and vote for your favorite!
Location: Banquet Room of the Civic Center
Ticket Price: $10.00 for adult, $6.00 for children
To Buy Tickets: Select-A-Seat, 770-2000

THIS WEEK'S FUN!
Look up the event BY DATE and call for specifics. Events are always subject to change.
Click here FOR DETAILS on these and MANY MORE >>

April 12 - 14 - Man of La Mancha
April 12 - 15 Ballet - A Midsummer Night's Dream
April 13 - 14, 20 - 21 and 27 - 28 - The Foreigner
April 13 - Learn to make beads from polymer clay canes and make a Bracelet class at Faux Real 6:30 to 8:30. Click here for more information.
April 14 - Mom and Me Dangle Bracelet class at Faux Real, 10:00 a.m.
Click here for more information.
April 14 - Singing Women of West Texas & Singing Men of West Texas Luncheon & Joint Concert 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
April 14 - Memory Walk for Alzheimer's disease at McKenzie Park
April 14 - 1 Day Mini Theater Camp for students kinder-8th grade
April 14 - 2nd Chance Prom Party and Benefit
April 14 - Superhero Saturday at Mahon Library
April 14 - The Panhandle Tour of the Texas Film Industry
April 14 - “An Evening with George Burns”
April 15 - FIRST HOME GAME for our Arena Football Lubbock Renegades! in Municipal auditorium. Click here to visit their website and look around!

Note for this week -- GET YOUR TICKETS for some of the events of the Lubbock Arts Festival next week April 19 - 22 This is always a fun time and this week is a good time to get your tickets. (Some events sell out.) Click here to see all the highlights.

Pickleball is back and April 19 is a
GOOD TIME TO LEARN to play this fun recreational sport - great for men and women!
We will be playing pickleball April 19 at Leroy Elmore Park at 7:00. Some really good players are in from out of town to give us this introductory class. Pickleball is a fun, game that is a cross between tennis, badminton, raquetball, and ping-pong all rolled into one. Anyone can learn to play and you might just get hooked while meeting some new friends.

Look up SUMMER FUN CLUB CARD
at the LUBBOCK ARTS FESTIVAL!
We're helping FAMILIES FIND the SUMMER FUN and for $10 you get a card that will give you these amazing offers or goodies!
FREE MINI-DETAIL for your car
FREE Cone or Cup at SHERIDAN'S
BUY ONE GET ONE TICKET to Summer Moonlight Musicals -- expanded this year -- and WONDERFUL!
FREE 6” FUNNEL CAKE at Stars & Stripes Drive-In Theatre
FREE ENTRY for child at BUFFALO SPRINGS LAKE
BUY ONE GET ONE FREE at PUTT PUTT FUN CENTER Go Carts & Golf
Parents play FREE at FUNOFAKIND with paying child and much more!
Click here for more information>>>>

A LOOK AHEAD
Many more UPCOMING FUN THINGS TO DO are listed on our CALENDAR OF EVENTS even further out than the weekly postcard. Click here to see more details about these events below and other things >>>


April 16 – 20: Lubbock Cultural Awareness Week
April 16 - "Fajita Cookout"- from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. outside Student Union Building
April 16 - Free Salsa Class at Groves Branch Library
April 16 - Dragon Program at the Godeke Branch Library
April 16 - Improve Your Child’s Reading at the Patterson Library
April 17 - “Share a Book with a Child”
April 19 - "Baile de Cultura"- Ballet Folklorico and Mariachi performance
April 19 - 22 - Lubbock Arts Festival! This is always a fun time and the Lubbock Fun Club is involved too! Click here for more details.
April 20 - 21 - Annual Delta Theta Chi Annual Garage Sale
April 20 - 21 - Lubbock County 10th Annual Relay For Life
April 21- Surprise Engagements, A Civil War play
April 27 - 28 - World Championship Buffalo Wing Cook Off at Buffalo Springs Lake
April 28 - DIVA DAY at First Baptist 11 - 2
April 28 - RANCH DAY at the Ranching Heritage Center All day!
Click here for more information.
April 28-29 - Annual spring agility trials for dogs

Don't just live here ... LOVE LIVING HERE!
Sandy
"The FUN Lady"

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