As usual, there are plenty of coupons, deals and events available for readers in the Twin Cities area this weekend. For previous local deal posts, click here.
Dave Mustaine Book Signing. This former guitarist for Metallica and founding member of Megadeth will be signing copies of his new book at the Rosedale Center Boards on August 21 starting at 12pm. For additional details, call Borders at 651.633.1344.
Renaissance Festival FREE Ticket. Donate blood at the Renaissance Festival this upcoming weekend (August 21-22) from 8:30am-2:30pm and you’ll receive a free entry ticket into the festival. You’ll need to schedule an appointment to donate in advance, so to do that, just go here and enter sponsor code 6608. (Thanks, Jan!)
The Salvation Army Volunteer Opportunity. Volunteers are needed this Saturday (August 21) to help children select new clothes and shoes and various stores for the upcoming school year. Volunteers must be 16 or older. Here are the available locations and times; click on the individual links for more information and to register online as a volunteer:
Fridley Target from 8-10am (35 volunteers needed)
Brooklyn Center Kohl’s from 7:30-9:30am (15 volunteers needed)
Brooklyn Park Walmart from 8-10:30am (26 volunteers needed)
St. Paul Suburban Target from 8-10am (8 volunteers needed)
St. Paul Midway Walmart from 8-10am (19 volunteers needed)
“All Shook Up” at the Mall of America. Join Chanhassen Dinner Theatres for a special surprise (a performance?) at the Best Buy Rotunda at the Mall of America on August 22 at 1pm and 2pm.
Clothes Mentor is having a dollar day clearance sale on Saturday, August 21. All remaining clearance items priced with a red purse stamp will be just $1.00 – this includes dresses, tops, purses, shoes, pants and more! All three locations (Maple Grove, St. Cloud and Woodbury) are participating in this clearance sale.
Papa Murphy’s. Get a large pepperoni pizza from Papa Murphy’s for just $4.99 today and tomorrow (8/20 & 8/21) when you bring in this printable coupon. Coupon is valid in Duluth, Minneapolis, Mankato and Rochester area locations only.
Renaissance Festival Food Drive. Get $5 off your admission to the Renaissance Festival when you bring 5 cans of food to the Emergency Foodshelf Network table before entering the festival. With your donation, you’ll get a $5 off coupon that you bring to the ticket office. I did this last year for two admissions with absolutely no issues – it was super easy! Food drives are August 21-22, 28-29, and September 4-6.
DNR “I Can Bowhunt” Seminar. Join DNR-certified instructors for this free seminar on beginning bowhunting on Sunday, August 22 from 2-5:30pm at the Baker Near-Wilderness Settlement. You’ll learn about hunting and shooting tactics, equipment and more, plus you’ll be able to try out some of the park’s archery equipement. Restricted to participants age 11 and older (I actually think my husband would be really interested in this one!).
Your turn: What’s your favorite thing to do/see/eat at the Renaissance Festival? (I’m a big fan of cream puffs. And Puke & Snot. And Tuey. And…)
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You don’t really need to the coupon for Papa Murphy’s pizza. We buy at least 10 pizzas and have the store double wrap them for us. Then we put them in the deep freeze and have yummy pizza for long time. This year we are having family get some for us and put in their deep freezers for later.
Ruth – Good to know. What a great idea about freezing the pizzas!
Do you thaw the pizzas before cooking or cook from frozen?
I believe you take it out of the freezer half an hour before baking, but directions for cooking a pizza after freezing are included on the baking instructions.
You should thaw the pizza before cooking. If we forget or are short on time we will pop it in the oven during the preheat cycle and then pull it out to finish thawing a cool a few minutes before putting it back in to cook.
Valley Fair has a 2 for $25 coupon if like them on facebook thats a great price! it’s for starlight admission with starts at 4pm today. regular price for this ticket is $21.99.
An inside scoop: My extraordinarily beautiful, intelligent and talented daughter attended a camp @ CDT this summer. The “event” @ MoA will indeed be a performance…of the “Flash Mob” variety.
P.S. Shhhh….it’s a secret !! LOL