Grab your friends as our popular monthly mixers are back! Enjoy a catered meal and entertainment or games.
December-Holiday Celebration
Celebrate the holidays with a lunch of salad, pork loin, mashed potatoes, vegetables, salad, and dessert. Musical entertainment by the “Lake Shore Singers” who will entertain with some favorite tunes for the Holidays. Bring a $6.00 or less wrapped gift for the gift exchange.
* Registration Deadline 12/5
Doors open at 11:00a. Lunch service begins at 11:30a
Grab your friends as our popular monthly mixers are back! Enjoy a catered meal and entertainment or games.
October- Step Back in Time Halloween Party
Dress up as your favorite TV character from your childhood as we Fall Back in Time and celebrate Halloween!! The afternoon begins with lunch of lasagna, garlic bread, and salad from Tina’s Café followed by a costume contest. Then fall back in time and enjoy Todd Hunt’s in person presentation “The Making of I Love Lucy”.
Participants will:
• Learn about how the most popular show in television history was created
• Discover how the show grew out of Lucille Ball’s radio show.
• Explore production techniques pioneered by Desi Arnaz, including the three-camera concept and the invention of reruns.
• Delve into the life stories of Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley.
Doors open at 11:00am. Lunch service begins at 11:30am
*Registration Deadline 10/3.
Grab your friends as our popular monthly mixers are back! Enjoy a catered meal and entertainment or games.
September-Fall in Line
Get out your cowboy boots and hat and let’s celebrate the start of Fall with a good ole’ country Line Dance. Lunch includes pulled chicken sandwich, coleslaw, chips, & dessert. Following lunch, we will learn some line dancing steps from Susan Moore, our favorite line dancing instructor.
Registration Deadline 9/5.
Doors open at 11:00am. Lunch service begins at 11:30am
Grab your friends as our popular monthly mixers have been extended through July! Enjoy a catered meal and entertainment or games. Doors open at 11:00am. Lunch service begins at 11:30am.
NEW summer location: Gurnee Community Church | 4555 Old Grand Avenue, Gurnee, IL
Wear your red, white & blue to our “America the Beautiful” celebration. The afternoon begins with a lunch of ham sandwiches on croissant rolls with Swiss cheese, lettuce & tomato, pasta salad, and chips and dessert. Then sit back as we listen to the melodies of America from NY to LA and every stop in between plus patriotic favorites sung by “Ludy & his Lady”.
Registration deadline: 7/8
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Grab your friends as our popular monthly mixers have been extended through July! Enjoy a catered meal and entertainment or games. Doors open at 11:00am. Lunch service begins at 11:30am.
NEW summer location: Gurnee Community Church | 4555 Old Grand Avenue, Gurnee, IL. 60031
As summer begins, let’s celebrate with an old fashioned picnic, indoors of course! Gurnee Community Church has graciously allowed Gurnee Park District to use their facility to host an indoor picnic.
Lunch will include fried chicken, potato salad, vegetable and fruit trays, and dessert.
Following lunch, we’ll play “Name That Tune” with singer and piano player, Robb Pedraza.
Registration deadline: 6/10
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There are few American sporting events with the history and popularity of the Kentucky Derby. Its rich traditions – sipping a mint julep, donning a beautiful hat, and joining fellow race fans in singing “My Old Kentucky Home” are enjoyed across the country. While we can’t personally go to the “Running of the Roses” we can hold our own “Kentucky Derby” races at Viking Park. Put on your Sunday best, fix up your most outrageous hat, and bet on your favorite horses (with fake money) which you can then use to buy fun prizes. Enjoy a lunch of crispy chicken wrap, salad, fresh fruit, coleslaw, and of course dessert.
Registration deadline 5/9
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Join us for a throwback party to the 1960’s, a time of peace symbols, flower power, beach culture, short skirts, flares, and lots of hair! Enjoy a lunch of cheeseburgers catered from Red Robin in Gurnee, chips, and dessert followed by the greatest hits of the 60’s, Burt Bacharach, The Carpenters, Beatles, and more played by the Layni Katz Trio. Dress up as if it was the 60s again.
Registration Deadline 4/4.
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Join Frances Mai-Ling on a journey to talk about a Polish pastry that is celebrated throughout the world by all cultures – the Paczki. Learn what a Paczki is, what makes them so famous and sought after, and how it is different from other donuts! Enjoy a traditional polish lunch of stuffed cabbage rolls, potato & cheese pierogis, salad, and Paczkis for dessert.
Registration deadline – 3/7
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Join us at the Gurnee Park District as we celebrate LOVE…our love of old toys that is. Enjoy a lunch of lasagna, bread, salad, and dessert from Tina’s Italian Cafe & Catering in Gurnee. Following lunch, go back in time with Dean Milano’s “Vintage Toys of the Past” program featuring a large display of antique toys and a slide show of additional toys, from the 1930s through the 1960s. Dean will have everyone reliving their childhood.
Registration deadline – 2/8
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900 N Hunt Club Rd
