2018 September COLONY Magazine

Plop a Spot for
Cow Pie Bingo
The Atascadero Printery Foundation is selling
tickets to a unique FUNdraiser that waits
for nature to call. The second annual Cow
Pie Bingo will
be set to music
by Shelly and
the Classics on
Sunday, Sept. 16.
The event will
include food,
drinks, fun and
games, and plain old good times on the grounds
of the Atascadero Printery building while the
crowd waits for Betsy to get down to business.
How it works, is there is a bingo grid with
squares sold to participants and the cow meanders
around the grid, looking to pick a lucky
winner with a plop on their spot.
Folks have at least a one in 500 chance of
winning, although some have already purchase
plots of fertile property in three-bythree
squares, increasing their chances that
ol’ Betsy will deposit her brown gold in space
under their dominion.
It all goes to a good cause in helping the
Atascadero Printery Foundation to raise funds
for its mission to reclaim, rehabilitate, and repurpose
the “Press Building” into a multipurpose,
community-use facility.
Funds from the event will count toward the
foundation’s effort to win the 2019 Dancing
With Our Stars as an added bonus.
To purchase tickets for the event, go to
atascaderoprintery.org/cow-pie-bingo-squares
Enjoy An Evening
in Santa Margarita
Celebrate Santa Margarita and indulge
in all it has to offer during An Evening
in Santa Margarita on Friday, Sept. 14
from 5 to 9 p.m.
Enjoy music, food, drinks, and crafts while
strolling through town, and to sweeten the
flavor of the evening, proceeds go to support
Friends of the Santa Margarita Library.
Cruise down El Camino and stop at your
favorite shops and restaurants or if you’ve never
been, visit them for the first time — either way,
take some time to explore.
The evening will feature vintage cars, wine
tasting, and ice cream sundaes at The Barn Antiques
& Unique, as well as a cornhole contest
outside Margarita Bikes.
Get a lecture at Educated Gardner, find children’s
activities outside Something Blue, or take
the kids over to see the Santa Margarita Fire
Department fire truck.
Local restaurants will donate a portion
of their sales to Friends of the Santa
Margarita Library.
Participating businesses include, Studio58,
The Barn Antiques & Unique, HOME •santa
margarita•, Casa Loma Rustic Furnishings,
The Educated
Gardener, Something
Blue-Fine
Sewing and
Wedding Alterations,
Margarita
Bikes, Ragtime
Clothing,
Ancient Peaks
Winery, Soaring Hawk Vineyards, Sculpterra
Winery, JUSTIN Vineyards & Winery, Vintage
Cowboy Winery, The Porch Cafe, The
Range, Rosalina’s, Pacific Beverage, Southern
Station, and Paradise Shaved Ice. And our
sponsors ~ Diamond M Investments, Foundation
Solutions, Oak Country Lumber, Pintor’s
Tire & Wheel, Santa Margarita Feed and Joel
Switzer Diesel Repair.
Movies in the Gardens
Playing Two More Weeks
Two more dates are left for Movies in the
Gardens, with “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” and
“Wonder”
rounding out
this year’s
outdoor
movie schedule
at Sunken
Gardens
on Saturday,
Sept. 1 and
Saturday,
Sept. 8.
If you don’t know what Star Wars is by now,
you probably really don’t care, so we’ll save the
unnecessary description — but go see it in the
park anyways. It will be worth it. The latest Star
Wars installment was critically acclaimed by
the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes, with
a 91 percent on the Tomatometer. Audiences
gave it 46 percent, but probably none of them
saw it outside under the Atascadero stars with
hundreds of friends and neighbors.
“Wonder,” on the other hand, is worth
talking about as the name gives you pretty
much nothing. Wonder was well-received by
audiences and critics alike, and is kind of like
the story of every home-school kid’s first day of
public school — except … August Pullman has
some unusual facial differences. But he makes
up for it with charm and a rapier wit.
Owen Wilson and Julia Roberts play the
supportive and caring parents as August enters
fifth grade to battle the typical middle school
torture with the gloves off. If you can see where
this is going, you might think he turns lemons
into sweet lemonade and takes you on a journey
to the heart of a child forced to find the humor
in tough situations, and inspires compassion
unmatched but for the Dalai Lama. You might
be right, but you should get your lowrise lawn
chair and see for yourself on Sept. 8.
Movies begin at 8 p.m. and snacks, desserts
and drinks are available on site.
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