Community calendar

Today

Danbury: Over 150 camps gather 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park, 8500 County Road U, to re-enact the fur trade era. The event includes a Traders Row, demonstrations, and black powder, archery and tomahawk competitions. Admission is $8 for adults; $6 for children ages 6-12; free for children 5 and younger..

Duluth: Spend lunch hour with upper-level students of the School of the Minnesota Ballet as they demonstrate the many styles of dance from ballet to jazz to tap. Students from the choreography class perform their own works in progress. The free event begins at noon in the Duluth Public Library Plaza across from the Depot.

Duluth: Lake Superior Singles Fellowship meets at 6 p.m. at Bridgeman’s in the Miller Hill Mall area for dinner and chitchat.

Pattison Park: Edmund Fitzgerald: The Legend Lives with Thomas Holden recalls the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, probably the world’s most famous shipwreck, and look back at the Lake Superior’s most famous wreck, the 1975 loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Bring your questions and theories at 7 p.m. Call (715) 399-3111.

Saturday

Superior: Barker’s Island Farmer’s Market runs 8 a.m. to noon near the SS Meteor, rain or shine.

Pattison Park: Greet the universe at 8 p.m. in Pattison Park to learn about the stars, planets, binary star system and more, then take a stroll to the beach and see what night objects you can find. Call (715) 399-3111.

Sunday

Iron River: A Blueberry Festival event sponsored by the Iron River Lions, begins at 3:30 p.m. at Moon Lake Park. The second annual cardboard boat race requires no entry fee. Rules and basic building ideas are available at www.irlions.com. Racers are divided into four groups: Kids up to 12, teens 13-16, young adults 17 and up, and the commercial division.

Pattison Park: Don’t Raise a Stink or look down your nose when Justin makes a presentation on skunks. Horns of Wisconsin takes a look at the white-tailed deer, elk and moose in Wisconsin. Discover where you might see these mighty beasts of the green-gilded forests in our state at 7 p.m. Call (715) 399-3111.

Monday

Duluth: La Leche League of Duluth meets 10 a.m. to noon at Chester Park, with First United Methodist Church (Coppertop) as a rain site. Babies and children welcome. Come join us to let the children play and visit with other moms. Feel free to bring a snack or bag lunch for yourself and your children. For more information, please call (218) 499-9504.

Pattison Park: Wildlife Bingo begins at 7 p.m. Tidbits of information about wildlife spice up this bingo game. Call (715) 399-3111.

Tuesday

Pattison Park: Green Bully Invasion begins at 7 p.m. and looks at the aliens crowding out local natives. What was often thought of as wonderful friends of mankind have turned out to be a pandemic of intrusion. Invasive species have leaped out of flower beds, family gardens and decorative landscapes to take up residence in the wild. Call (715) 399-3111.

Wednesday

Superior: The Downtown Farmer’s Market runs 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot north of the Superior Public Library, rain or shine.

Superior: The Superior Central High School Class of 1951 holds a noon luncheon Aug. 15 at Barker’s Island Inn at the doing room balcony. All classmates and spouses planning to attend should reply by Aug. 1. For reservations, call John Robinson at (715) 394-9405 or Pat Collins at (715) 392-2077.

Lake Nebagamon: Story Time begins at 1:30 p.m. at the Imogene McGrath Library.

Superior: The Superior Singers present their summer concert “Homeland,” a patriotic celebration created by Randy Vader and Jay Rouse, at 7 p.m. during Bayside Sounds at Barker’s Island Pavilion. Call (218) 348-8314 or visit www.superiorsingers.com

Pattison Park: Stephen Dahl is a local commercial fisherman who has fished in Alaska, and for the last 27 years, the North Shore of Lake Superior He talks about his early years which at 7 p.m. He is the author of “Knife Island: Circling a Year in a Herring Skiff.” Call (715) 399-3111.

Thursday

Superior: The Thaddeus Kosciuszko Society (Polish Club) meets at 6:30 p.m. at the Fraternal Order of the Eagles, 1710 N. 12th St.

Duluth: The Mental Health Support Group meets 5-7 p.m. at Miller Dwan Medical Center, 502 E. Second St., meeting rooms 1-3, lobby level, eastside near the auditorium.

Pattison Park: Thomas Holden present The Storm that Built the Lights: MATAAFA Storm of 1905 at 7 p.m. Lighthouses from Duluth-Superior to Split Rock and Isle Royale owe their existence to the devastation caused to shipping in a single November storm in 1905, which involved at least 29 ships in accidents ranging from topside damage to total disappearance. Call (715) 399-3111.

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