Enjoy Tuesdays at Lincoln Community Center with with projects, learning, and fun! Come to make, play, and socialize throughout the fall with friends from around the Mankato area.

Back by popular demand! Our regional chess tourneys are fun, competitive, and an all around good time. It's the season of costume fun! Dress up and play a friendly game. We will award medals and ribbons to grade level and division champions. Costume awards, too! Check in begins at 8:30 am, first round is at 9:00 am. Awards presented at 12:00 pm. This event is co-sponsored by South Central Service Cooperative and Mankato Community Education.

Get ready for fall on your day off! Bring a friend and join us for a fun-filled Friday of crafts and snacks. Ghost stories will be shared and potions will be stirred! Paint clay bats, build scarecrows to share, make some Spider Slime, and decorate Cobweb Cookies! Snacks can be created allergen-friendly.

Purchase a punch card and clay coupon (each sold separately) to use the Pottery Studio facilities and supplies. Each visit counts as one use. Punch cards and clay/glaze card are valid for one year from the purchase date. To participate in studio activities, all users must purchase a Consumables Clay Card. This card covers 25 pounds of clay, access to studio glazes, and space in the kiln for firing. Our pottery lab is equipped with potter's wheels, slab roller, extruder, hand building tools, glazes, greenware storage, and electric kilns. This is not an instructional class. Artists should be able to use the studio and equipment independently, however a studio supervisor will be present for technical questions. In our studio, you pay based on use. We only allow clay sold by our studio. We know the products we use / sell to students are safe for our kilns and will produce a good quality product. The studio, managed by isd77 Community Education Leisure + Enrichment Program keeps in inventory high quality supplies and equipment for artist use. The studio and CE cannot be held responsible for work that in the process of drying or firing is damaged or broken. Our studio is available for independent artist use in part because of volunteers and funding provided by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Join us for a historic and scenic tour of Hastings, MN with 60+ sites on the Minnesota Historic Registry. This trip will be a guided tour, rich with autumn scenery and Minnesota history dating back to 1856. We will have our own tour guide and visit a variety of "must see" destinations, including but not limited to: City Hall, Carpenter Nature Center, Vermillion Falls & Hastings Lock & Dam #2. We will dine at the Confluence Hotel in downtown Hastings. Lunch will be provided by Missi's Sip & Savor. We will be touring sites both indoors and outdoors. To be most comfortable on this trip, you will be dressed for the weather and have clothing and shoes comfortable for walking indoors and outside. If you are not interested in stairs or need a little down time, there will be options throughout the day to "sit out" a portion of the tour and still be fully satisfied with all of the sites and sounds of the Fall Season, coupled with the historic charm of Hastings. This is the perfect trip for adventurers who love the outdoors, enjoy Minnesota History, like the variety of both walking and sitting, and are looking for the perfect spot to view peek colors of the season. Our trip escorts are sensitive to the length of drive and will make sure our guests have opportunities to take advantage of bathroom stops for comfort. This is a day trip. 7:30 am - arrive at WOW Zone for check in 7:45 am - bus leaves WOW Zone 8:05 am - bus pick up in St. Peter (Washington Street by the Community Center) 8:15 am - bus leaves St. Peter 10:30 -11:00 am - arrive in Hastings, MN (Vermilion Falls Park - 215 21st Street E in Hastings, MN) 11:00 - 12:00 (noon) - Lock Dam # 2 on the Mississippi (watch for Bald Eagle sightings on the observation deck) - 1350 Lock & Dam Road (Hastings) 12:30 (noon) - Lunch at Missi's Sip & Savor (lunch included with paid registration) - 200 2nd St. W in Hastings, MN) 1:30 pm - Tour (Downtown sites) - on your own 2:30 - Tour Carpenter Nature Center (12805 St. Croix Trail S in Hastings, MN 55033 (Bird Hike & meet and greet with a Raptor) - most trails are paved. If you are not up for a hike, you can take a leisurely look around the Visitor Center while the rest of the group goes out on the trails. 3:30 pm - Everyone On The Bus (Depart For Home) 5:10 pm - Drop off - St. Peter 5:30 pm - Drop off - Mankato *Timelines are approximate based on traffic conditions and weather