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Patch Picks: Memorial Day Weekend Events

Memorial Day offers plenty of family fun.

Enjoy the sounds of the Westwind band before the start of the Memorial Day ceremony.

  • Where: 
  • When: 9:30 a.m. Monday
  • Cost: Free

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Help honor soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen at a ceremony in downtown Hopkins.

  • Where: 
  • When: 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday
  • Cost: Free

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Worship in the park across from Zion Lutheran and then enjoy the Fifth Annual Fish Boil after the service. Proceeds go to Orphan Grain Train and will be matched by Thrivent for Lutherans.

  • Where: and
  • When: 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday
  • Cost: Donations

Bring any extra plants to trade or sell at the first annual plant swap and sale in the Alice Smith Elementary School parking lot. You can also donate plants to the sale with profits going to the Avenues Neighborhood Association treasury.

  • Where: 
  • When: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday
  • Cost: Free to enter

Enjoy good music and help build a school in a third-world country at a concert that includes Blake's Blakers in Treble, Hopkins High School's Men's 8, Breck's Flockapella, Blake's Blaker's Dozen, Prior Lake's Final Rehearsal and Hopkins High School's Women's 8. All proceeds benefit Free the Children.

  • Where: 's MacMillan Performing Arts Center (110 Blake Road South)
  • When: 7 p.m. Saturday
  • Cost: "Choose-your-own-price" admission

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