Join Us for the First Annual Footslog! Sunday, October 23, 2016 5k trail run/walk at 9:00am | 1 mile nature quest at 10:00am Join us for a 5K trail run/walk and family friendly 1 mile footslog featuring a nature quest/scavenger hunt. This event takes place on the beautiful Lowe’s Creek Trails in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Proceeds of this fun, family friendly event benefit the Chippewa Valley Montessori Charter School.

Oct 13-15 Annual Pumpkin Fest – Head up to the Olde School and enjoy a unique shopping experience.  The work of over 20 crafters will be displayed in a boutique fashion.  Numerous crafts, home decor, gift items, antiques, and home goodies including lefse, baked goods and much more.  Stay and enjoy homemade soup with all the fixings. Sand Creek. Thursday 4-8, Friday 11-6 and Saturday 9-1. If you have any questions, call Sandy at 715-658-1758

Free Zumba dance party with PS-Get Fit, LLC. Save the date and come dance with us at our 1-year anniversary dance party. No experience needed and all we ask is that you come to have fun. We are hoping the event can be outdoors so fingers crossed that mother nature cooperates. There will be drawings and prizes for all … and cake, because it’s not a party without cake which we all will have earned it!

All performers wanting to audition are asked to prepare a 30-60 second cutting from a Broadway musical. Please provide your own live or recorded accompaniment. Singing roles are available for 10 females and 7 males ages high school-adult. Four public performances are scheduled October 13-16 at The Oxford. For complete audition information visit www.ecct.org and click on Auditions. For those interested in helping behind the scenes, opportunities are available to help with sound and lights, working backstage, and with the costumes and sets. For more information, email frontdesk@ecct.org or call 715-839-8877.

All performers wanting to audition are asked to prepare a 30-60 second cutting from a Broadway musical. Please provide your own live or recorded accompaniment. Singing roles are available for 10 females and 7 males ages high school-adult. Four public performances are scheduled October 13-16 at The Oxford. For complete audition information visit www.ecct.org and click on Auditions. For those interested in helping behind the scenes, opportunities are available to help with sound and lights, working backstage, and with the costumes and sets. For more information, email frontdesk@ecct.org or call 715-839-8877.

Enjoy the entertainment, play a game, or take a ride on your favorite carnival ride, visit with vendors, attend NTPA Truck and Tractor Pull, Red Cedar Races, and other grandstand attractions, view outstanding exhibits by county youth and adults, and don’t pass up the awesome fair food! Admission – $1 per person; $2 after 4:00 pm on Friday & Saturday; $10 for season pass; free parking. Home

The Color Dash is a color-based fun run benefiting the Eau Claire Children’s Theatre. Runners will start with a clean white shirt and at each kilometer colored powder will be thrown at the runners, resulting in runners covered in color by the end of the run. Packet pick-up for the Color Dash begins at 12:00 p.m and the dash begins at 2:00 p.m. The Color Dash is the only color-based run to come to the Chippewa Valley which gives 50% of runner’s registration fees to a local non-profit, and is partnering with ECCT for its fourth year. The Color Dash …

Turn of the Century Pets Exhibit – Saturdays in August, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. This summer, visit Wilson Place Mansion, the home of the founders of Menomonie, to learn about all about pets in the Victorian Era, all the way through the 1930s! 101 Wilson Ct, Menomonie $5/adult, $3/age 12 & under. wilsonplacemansion@gmail.com

What if your child or other loved one was diagnosed with Type 1 (T1D) or Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) and did not have health insurance or the financial means to pay for life-saving pharmaceutical or medical supplies? What if you were able to help LOCAL children and adults of all ages with T1D or T2D? Would you do it? At 10 years old, Cammie Johnson was diagnosed with T1D. She spent her adolescence balancing her diet and lifestyle, being careful to pay attention to everything she ate and drank, and testing her blood sugar by pricking her fingers and administering …

The eighth annual DANCING WITH THE EAU CLAIRE STARS will be held Friday, September 9, at Zorn Arena on the UW-Eau Claire campus. The evening begins at 6:00 p.m. with cocktails and dinner, and the celebrity dance competition begins at 7:45 p.m. Tickets for this year’s event go on sale August 1st, and last year’s event was SOLD OUT. Based on the popular ABC television show, the event features local celebrities competing in two rounds of dancing – a compulsory dance and a freestyle dance of their choice. Each celebrity dancer is partnered with a veteran stage performer and a …