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Youth Connection is expanding from 2 days to 4 days! We now offer kids in grades 3-12 more opportunities to belong, build relationships, pursue art and stay active.
NEW: Mondays 3:30-5pm for Grades 4-6 Performing Arts Day! This is a new opportunity for students who have an interest in music, theater and live production. We are so excited to have Ann Marie Newman joining us for this program! Ann Marie Newman recently happily returned to her hometown of Clearbrook, MN where she is enjoying reconnecting with relatives and making new friends. A creative dreamer, she is a 30+ years long performance storyteller. For a delightful eight years, she was Storyteller in Residence for the Dallas Museum of Art. She is also a longtime stage actress, conceptual artist, writer, and a frequently published poet and poetry slam winner. During COVID isolation, Ann Marie started a vlog on YouTube called, Oopsy Annie: Joyful wanderer in this “oopsy world” where she shares stories about “oopsy" encounters, creative happenings and events of all kinds. As if that isn’t enough, because there’s so much she enjoys doing, Ann Marie recently began the column, Weekly Inky Winks with Oopsy Annie, in the Leader Record. A quote from Ann Marie to sum it all up is, “Engaging in creatively diverse story sharing with people near and far is my heart’s calling to a joy-filled life.” Tuesdays 3:30-5pm for Grades 6+ This day is a laid back time to hangout. Students can enjoy playing gym games together, doing arts and crafts, playing card or board games, or just spending time talking. Wednesdays 2:30-5pm for Grades 3-5 This day will have a variety of activities for students to choose from including: cooking, hands-on STEM activities through 4H, arts and crafts, rock climbing, gym games and more! NEW: Thursdays 3:30-5pm for Grades 6+ Youth Connection 2.0! This day will have a variety of activities aimed at helping teens build confidence and vision. There will be projects like cooking and sewing, challenges like rock climbing and puzzling, opportunities for service, field trips and just some good plain fun! Program Starts Monday October 2nd , 2023. Register Online now at www.clearwaterslife.org.
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Do you enjoy pizza? I know I love pizza, especially homemade! Clear Waters Life Center in Gonvick is setting up the summer with several brick oven pizza nights, perfect for your family and friends. Included with dinner is an opportunity to visit our Create It Studios. We are planning fun games, crafts for kids, live music, art demonstrations, door prizes and more. Come out and join us! Create It Studio Open House starts at 4p and Pizza is served at 5pm. Friday evenings: July 28th, August 11th and August 25th.
Our Create It Studios features pottery, mosaics, acrylic and water painting, jewelry making, basket weaving and much more. With regular classes including Create It! Sessions every 2nd Monday of the month and hours for you to meet with a mentor to help with your dream art project, the studios have what you need to get connected with other local artists and enthusiast. Grow It! Garden Center thanks you for another successful season. We still have a few plants available. If interested call us at 218-487-5290 ext 3 to see when you can stop by. Join us at the Clearwater County Fair August 2-6. Our famous Strawberry Rhubarb Slushies are ready! Located next to the 4H Food building. See you soon! For more details visit our website at www.clearwaterslife.org. You may have heard rumors of Clear Waters Life Center (CWLC) staff retirements and wondered if it will continue to be a center of light and activity in our communities. It will! CWLC handles change well; it’s like its middle name. Over the past year, a young and committed generation of staff has been “learning the ropes.” Over the past year, Becky, Administrative Executive Director, has been training and gradually moving her responsibilities to capable hands. Brenda has moved most of her responsibilities to a new staff member. Sherry’s transition started about a year ago, also, by turning over marketing. Sunday afternoon, May 7, 3:00 PM, CWLC will be hosting a pie and ice cream social at CWLC-Gonvick to introduce our new staff members and provide a short history of how CWLC has grown and changed. The program will begin at 3:30. Everyone in our area communities are invited to celebrate with us.  Our basket parties are fun, creative, and busy affairs. Choices of spillers, fillers, and thrillers will line the tables as customers contemplate their choices and plant them. Watching the baskets fill out and bloom is always a joy and an inspiration. We hope you can join us at this year’s Basket Parties Friday March 31st and Saturday April 1st. Bring your planter or purchase one, then choose and plant your flowers. We will care for your planter until Mother’s day! Sign up online at www.clearwaterslife.org or call 218-776-2789. Customers who live close enough are invited to stop and “visit” their baskets as Grow It! staff care for them.
Grow It! Greenhouse & Garden Center in Gonvick officially opens for the season on Monday, April 3rd. There is always something new happening at our Clear Waters Life Center sites, and this season we are looking forward to serving you better with more choices in bulk seeds, and some new and interesting varieties of flowers and vegetables. Stop by Mon - Thurs 9am-5pm, Friday 9am-6pm, and Saturday 9am-12pm. Summer weekends are precious and few, but sometimes once in a lifetime opportunities come along that you just can’t resist. Clear Waters Life Center (CWLC) is the recipient of a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and you are the beneficiary! Friday and Saturday, August 19 & 20, CWLC’s Create It! Art Studios in Gonvick will be offering a fabulous workshop which will host seven artist-instructors and their unique art mediums.
Each of the hands-on workshops will walk you through the steps to create your own piece to take home. It starts Friday at 1:00 PM when you will be able to choose from one of four art offerings:
Saturday starts with light breakfast at 8:30 AM followed by your choice of:
Lunch will be provided, 12:00-1:00 PM. Saturday afternoon will also offer Paper Quilling and Minne-Murals™ Coloring Posters with Cindy Kolling. Registration is required and attendance at some sessions is limited, so register early. You can register on-line at www.clearwaterslife.org or by calling 218-776-2789. Cost is $25 per person and this is for ages 16+. There is always a lot of activity at Clear Waters Life Center (CWLC) in Gonvick during greenhouse season. What better way than to plan your trip to Gonvick, so you can pick up our healthy, happy vegetable plants, annuals or perennials AND have a “home-cooked” dinner in our dining rooms. Our June 3 Friday Night Out will feature tasty one-third pound burgers; you can choose plain, cheeseburger, or bacon-cheeseburger and add toppings of your choice; fruit kabobs, potato salad, baked beans, strawberry shortcake with real whipped cream, and lemonade, coffee, or tea fill out our indoor picnic! Proceeds from our Friday Night Out dinners and greenhouse sales help finance the many programs that CWLC provides for our communities. If you aren’t familiar with all that we have to offer, take a virtual tour via our website, www.clearwaterslife.org.
These days, everyone is looking for ways to save money and eat well. There is no better way than growing your own. Whether you only have room for a patio tomato, one raised bed, or a half acre, you can begin. Grow It! Greenhouse & Garden Center carries plants that thrive in our northern Minnesota climate and the knowledgeable staff will help you with your decisions. Grow It! has everything from herbs to edible Nasturtium, winter squash to tomatoes, and seed potatoes to strawberry plants. Visit our YouTube channel, just search Clear Waters Life Center, and be able to watch and listen to one or all of our videos featuring growing instructions on a variety of plants. Plus, here it comes, there is a 25% off Planter Sale for Memorial Day weekend, May 27th, 28th and 30th with special hours, 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM, on the 30th! To keep up-to-date, like us on Facebook and visit our website, www.clearwaterslife.org, regularly. Create It! Community Art Studios in Clear Waters Life Center-Gonvick has new hours for Mentor Mondays. Karen and LeAnne will be available to help you with your projects from 1:00 to 6:00 PM each Monday. Whether you want to do pottery, mosaics, jewelry, beading, scrapbooking, painting or something else, they will do their best to answer your questions, encourage, and/or jump in and help you, if an extra pair of hands are needed. Our extended hours will allow you to drop in after work or bring your kids after school. Trust your creative side, even if you don’t think that you have one.
The new mentor hours will not affect the studio hours. If you are a member and/or are working on a project and confident in what you are doing, you are welcome in the studios anytime that the Gonvick building is open: Monday, 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM, and Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM. In addition to regular Mentor Mondays, the second Monday of each month Create It! will be hosting a guest artist for a unique hands-on learning experience. June 13 will be garden art. You can find the full schedule (thru December 12) on our website: www.clearwaterslife.org or follow us on Facebook. If you prefer e-mail reminders, just call or e-mail our Clearbrook Office, 218-776-2789 or office@clearwaterslife.org, and ask to be added to our Create It! e-mail list. Remember, too, the second Monday of each month has Senior Connection cooking classes! If cooking is your creative outlet or not, you will want to join us, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM for these free classes. Each class feature nutritious, affordable, and easy to make dishes, PLUS you get to sample them! So, make a day of it! Invite a friend. Come for the cooking class and stay for an afternoon of art fun. All of our Create It! art activities meet you where you are as a beginner or someone with intermediate or advanced skills. There is a nominal charge for our busy art Mondays; $5.00 covers instruction and all supplies. These activities are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board and Region 2 Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund |