JUNE 3rd!!!! Send A Kid To Sea!!!! (Sunday Fund-Days @ Lucky Star!) JUNE 3rd!!!

This coming Memorial Day weekend, Lucky Star Market will be closed in honor of the proprietress’ completion of another year on the planet! This means that our next big push to Send A Kid To Sea will be SUNDAY, JUNE 3rd!!! Come on out and support an incredible effort for an incredible journey for one local student! (Below are some previously published links and details)! Also, every day, there are ways to support her progress, so stop by and inquire!

Ever had a really big dream? A really, really big one that could change your life in incredible ways? One of our Northside neighborhood students, currently a sophomore at Chapel Hill High School, has been accepted into the Canadian tall ship program, Class Afloat, for the 2012-2013 school year! If all goes well, she’ll be sailing out of Istanbul, Turkey in September to kick off her junior year of high school aboard the Sorlandet, a 200ft. Norwegian tall ship built in 1927. She’ll learn square-sail sailing, celestial navigation, endless types of knots, sea(woman)ship, and be engaged in several multicultural immersion and volunteer service projects, while also being challenged by an intensive academic school year! With over 20 port calls along the way, she will sail the Mediterranean to Greece, Croatia and France, then on to Portugal, Morocco and Senegal before crossing the Atlantic to Brazil! Later stops include tiny islands in the South Atlantic, South Africa, Namibia, the Caribbean and eventually a finish of the school year in southeastern Canada! She is in the process of raising tuition funds, through a combination of grant and scholarship applications, sales of Windmill Hill Farms honey (where she worked with bees all last summer and this past Spring Break for tuition), and Sunday Fund-Days here at Lucky Star Market! Also, ALL tips every day here at Lucky Star go directly towards tuition! It’s a tall order, but there are a lot of people pulling for her to get on that tall ship and go!

Help get this girl…

NaaLamiley Kwakye

onto this ship…

The Sorlandet

From now through the end of August, every Sunday at Lucky Star Market will be devoted to raising her tuition funds! Come on out to meet, get to know and support a fantastic young woman on her way (we all hope!) to sea!

Any questions about the program or our local student? Email: h.ragan@yahoo.com

Goldsprints!!! Saturday Night!

Sign-up to race starts @ 7:30pm, racing begins @ 8:00pm! Only $5 to race!

100% of all store purhases go towards the Send-A-Kid-To-Sea fund, helping one local student spend junior year of high school sailing the world by tall-ship!

New Sweets, Savories & bouquets…open all weekend!

Hey everyone! This weekend, we’ll have our regular Saturday treat from Chicken Bridge Bakery; savory gougeres, incredible strawberry jam scones, and impressive local-honey-pecan granola! We’ll also have a fantastic array of delights from C’est Ma Joie! Sweet and savory turnovers, mini banana bread loaves, fantastic cookies and more!

(Soon there will be actual photos of what’s coming!)

We’ll have small floral bouquets available this weekend for those of you celebrating us moms, and as always, fresh coffee will be awaiting your arrival by 9am on Saturday and Sunday. (Of course, you don’t need to be up that early)!

Be good to you and yours, see you soon!

Cyclists’ Handbook

“Just Ride” is a collection of essays from Grant Petersen of Rivendell Bicycle Works that is over-flowing with cycling wisdom.

Petersen’s core belief is that riding a bike is a simple pleasure that is quickly and easily overcomplicated by folks imposing unrealistic expectations on themselves. Why would someone spend hours tracking and analyzing their wattage when they could just be out riding their bike?

As a former racer, Petersen is not trying to discourage racers so much as he is trying to encourage the rest of us to find joy in cycling without feeling compelled to race (or equip ourselves like racers).

This book is a joy to read and it will surely make riding a bike more pleasurable, even for racers.

Popsicles!

Cool off with a popsicle from Luna Pops:
Pineapple Mango
Rhubarb Lime
Raspberry Chocolate Chip
Cookies n’ Cream
Sea Salt Caramel

Git-r-done!!!

Please meet our new go-getter, the Civia Halsted, built fresh today by Back Alley Bikes! Frame-mounted cargo platform with removable basket sides, low front wheelbase, double kickstand, super super cute, and so much more!

(See pics below, Boxer added for scale)

 

Send a kid to sea! (Sunday Fund-Days @ Lucky Star!)

Ever had a really big dream? A really, really big one that could change your life in incredible ways? One of our Northside neighborhood students, currently a sophomore at Chapel Hill High School, has been accepted into the Canadian tall-ship program, Class Afloat, for the 2012-2013 school year! If all goes well, she’ll be sailing out of Istanbul, Turkey in September to kick off her junior year of high school aboard the Sorlandet, a 200ft. Norwegian tall ship built in 1927. She’ll learn square-sail sailing, celestial navigation, endless types of knots, sea(woman)ship, and be engaged in several multicultural immersion and volunteer service projects, while also being challenged by an intensive academic school year! With over 20 port calls along the way, she will sail the Mediterranean to Greece, Croatia and France, then on to Portugal, Morocco and Senegal before crossing the Atlantic to Brazil! Later stops include tiny islands in the South Atlantic, South Africa, Namibia, the Caribbean and eventually a finish of the school year in northeastern Canada! She is in the process of raising tuition funds, through a combination of grant and scholarship applications, sales of Windmill Hill Farms honey (where she worked with bees all last summer and this past Spring Break for tuition), and Sunday Fund-Days here at Lucky Star Market! Also, ALL tips every day here at Lucky Star go directly towards tuition! It’s a tall order, but there are a lot of people pulling for her to get on that tall-ship and go!

Help get this girl…

NaaLamiley Kwakye

onto this ship…

The Sorlandet

From now through the end of August, every Sunday at Lucky Star Market will be devoted to raising her tuition funds! Come on out to meet, get to know and support a fantastic young woman on her way (we all hope!) to sea!

Any questions about the program or our local student? Email: h.ragan@yahoo.com