Outdoors

summer yard games

Make the most of the warm, sunshine-filled days and elevate your fun in the comfort of your own backyard. Start a socially distant lawn game tournament with others to make it competitive or simply enjoy a leisurely game with your friends and family.

The Starlight Cinema movie night was an idea that came from the mind of Amanda Roseth two summers ago, after putting a projector and movie screen up for people in her Woodbury neighborhood. “I guess that was kind of the start of everything,” Roseth says.

Since opening in June 2015, the splash pad at Bielenberg Sports Center (BSC) has been a popular outing for many local families.

Opened in February, Maxville Services provides auto repair and maintenance services, and also caters to their female and younger clientele with a full-service beauty salon, boutique and kids’ play place.

At the height of the Great Recession, Rick Barstow was selling boats for Marine Max in Oakdale. “Not the greatest time to be selling boats,” he admits. But he loved his job and he did it well, with loyal and happy customers.

In 2005, Dana Millington of Woodbury founded the Madison Claire Foundation in memory of her daughter Madison, who died after a two-year battle with spinal muscular atrophy.

The Safe Routes to School program is a national movement geared toward uniting neighborhoods and creating a safe environment for students to walk or bike to school while allowing for less traffic cong

It’s July, the temperature is hot, summer vacation is in full swing and that means that everybody is trying to soak up the sun’s rays while they’re still strong. Between baseball games, softball tournaments and soccer matches, Woodbury’s athletic fields are in high use this time of year.

The Carver Lake Camp Out provides a great family weekend getaway opportunity right in the community. “You feel like you’re out in the wilderness, but it’s really just a drive from home,” says city of Woodbury recreation technician Jon Hagen.

The Woodbury Pickleball Program has been using converted tennis courts at Shawnee Park for about four years. A large number of pickleball players attended the 2016 budget meeting and expressed an interest in upgrading the facilities.

Last fall, the city of Woodbury reached out to residents for help in naming four Woodbury park lands. Some are existing parks whose use had changed over time, while others are undeveloped park lands that have yet to be named.

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