Don't Miss Monroe Farmers Market Back-to-School Blast Friday, Aug. 29!

From Monroe Farmers Market:

August 29, 2014
It’s our annual Back To School Blast!

Children’s Activity Creative Kids Craft Studio will be at the market helping kids to decorate notebooks and pencils with Washi tape and duct tape in fun colors and patterns!

Educational Program Monroe Reads Together is a partnership between local librarians, teachers, residents and business owners seeking to promote the joys and benefits of reading by choosing a book for a town-wide read this Summer. The book is Dinner with the Smileys: One Military Family, One Year of Heroes, and Lessons for a Lifetime. Special events at the library and in schools during October and November will bring the community together to talk about the book and the issues it presents.

Physical and downloadable copies are available at the Edith Wheeler Memorial Library, from Amazon.com, OverDrive Digital Books and Audible.com. Representatives from Monroe Reads Together will be at the market this week to promote the program and a visit by the author coming in November.

Lemonade StandThis Friday, Project Warmth is running the Lemonade Stand. The Project Warmth Fund was created by the Town of Monroe to help Monroe residents bridge the gap between energy assistance programs. They will be raising funds at the market this week in order to provide assistance to those in need this coming Winter.

Entertainment
From 3-5pm, Masuk High School’s own DJ Joel Castillo will be spinning current hits,live from the gazebo on the green.

From 5-6pm, the eight member group The Common Chords will perform Rock and Blues standards from the last few decades, on the gazebo. They’re a group of Monroe Educators that includes teachers, a principal and a district administrator and they know how to rock!

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Sponsors
This week’s market is sponsored in part by The Creative Music Center of Monroeand Next Step Living.

The Creative Music Center is a full-service music retail store located on Main Street in Monroe, CT. The music store serves musicians of all ages and abilities and offers piano instruction, as well as music lessons for guitar, voice, drums and other band and orchestral instruments including violin, viola, cello, flute, clarinet, saxophone, oboe, trumpet, trombone and French horn. Creative Music also offers quality instrument rentals, student and professional instrument sales, instrument repairs and sheet music.

Next Step Living is a groundbreaking company on a mission to make it easy, affordable and rewarding for homeowners to implement energy-saving solutions. The company is unique in offering a whole-home approach that helps owners save energy and money, reduce their carbon footprint, and live more comfortably. Next Step Living offers products across the complete clean energy spectrum, from Home Energy Solutions Assessments, to Solar, to Alternative Heating/Cooling options and more!