In October Boston's Coon Rapids donated pumpkins to the four 2nd grade classrooms at Hoover Elementary. Each student decorated a pumpkin which was displayed (90 pumpkins total) at Boston's. Our guests kindly voted for their favorite pumpkin and we awarded the top 2 students classrooms with a pizza party! When the pizzas were delivered yesterday the students were polite and incredibly grateful, although we maintain that the students did all of the hard work! As we put out the pizzas we received endless hugs and thanks. What a terrific group of students and how COOL are their teachers?! Check out the pics!
Thursday, November 29th and Thursday, December 27th 5pm-9pm at Boston's Coon Rapids we will be hosting a fundraiser for the ALS Association to support the fight against Lou Gehrig's disease. Join us for dinner between 5pm and 9pm and we will donate 10% of sales to ALS.
Don't miss your chance to enter the Raffle for this Twins-themed Polaris ATV which will be parked out front during our events! 100% of raffle ticket sales will be donated to ALS.
We LOVE Halloween! This year we hosted a pumpkin decorating contest with 4 2nd grade classrooms from Hoover Elementary. The 2 pumpkins with the most votes won a pizza party for their classroom. We'll make sure to follow up with pics from the winning classrooms pizza parties! Check out pictures from the contest and the Halloween Party we hosted Sunday, October 27th this year which included a costume contest, kids eat free, balloon artist and face painting!
Thank you to our guests for voting! We had almost 500 votes!
Fantastic Job by our Hoover 2nd Graders!
Congrats to our 2 Winning Pumpkins!
There were 90 pumpkins displayed at Boston's!
Costume Contest WINNER received 2 Unlimited Wrist Bands to Nickelodeon Universe at the Mall of America!
Boston's is happy to announce the success of our April fundraiser for Child Abuse Awareness Month! Boston's raised a total of $1,674.60 for the Child Abuse Prevention Council of Anoka County and $4,013.00 to buy Rylan an adapted bicycle!
Thanks again to everyone who helped Boston's raise funds to make this possible during April's Child Abuse Awareness Month! To the Blue Knights, YOU ARE AMAZING! Thank you!
Pictured above is the Spring Lake Park-Blaine-Mounds View Fire
Department awarding Rylan a donation toward his new bike! Thanks for your generous donations!
On February 22, 1959, Daytona International Speedway hosted the first Daytona 500. The posted awards for the "500-Mile International Sweepstakes" totaled $67,760. A field of 59 cars took the green flag for the start of the 200-lap race. A crowd of 41,000 was on hand to witness the beginning of another chapter in the history of racing in Daytona.
The finish of the race also went into the history books. The finish was too close to call, but Johnny Beauchamp went to Victory Lane and savored the celebration although the results were posted as "unofficial."
Sixty-one hours later, Lee Petty was the winner in what appeared to be a dead heat between Petty and Beauchamp - with the lapped car of Joe Weatherly making it a three-wide finish at the checkered flag. A clip of newsreel footage proved that Petty was the winner by a few feet.
(http://www.daytonainternationalspeedway.com/News/DAYTONA-500-History.aspx)