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Free Admission to Santa-Cali-Gon Days

It’s time for one of the Kansas City area’s biggest and best festivals. Santa-Cali-Gon Days is:

September 3, 6:00 p.m. (carnival only)
September 4, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
September 5, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
September 6, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
September 7, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

All activities, including the concerts and contests,  are free except for the carnival. Santa-Cali-Gon Days [...]

Get Coupons for Overland Park Retailers

The Downton Overland Park website has coupons with discounts for a number of area retailers. Save on paint, culinary gadgets, oil changes, portraits and more. Just print them out and go.
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Bowl for Free on September 5

If you download a coupon at www.bowl.com, you can bowl a free game at participating bowling centers on September 5, 2009. They’re trying to break a record on National Bowling Day, so do your part to help out.
I found six participating bowling alleys in and around Kansas City.
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Buy Produce, Get a $5 Coupon

Beginning Saturday, August 29, 2009, when you buy produce from the Lee’s Summit Farmers Market you’ll get a coupon for $5 OFF a purchase of $20 or more at 18 participating Downtown Lee’s Summit businesses. The Farmer’s Market opens every Wednesday and Saturday at 7:00 a.m. 
Downtown Lee’s Summit is located is located 20 miles southeast of Kansas [...]

Free Chicken Sandwich at Chick-Fil-A on Labor Day

Love free chicken? Want some? On Labor Day, wear something with the logo of your favorite sports team on it (Go Chiefs!), and Chick-Fil-A will give you a free original chicken sandwich. Yum. The deal is valid at participating locations only from 10:30 a.m.-close on Labor Day, September 7, 2009.
In the Kansas City area there [...]

Free Wellness Wednesdays at City Market

City Market has a lot to offer during the summer, especially during their weekend farmers’ markets with the delicious bread and scrumptious baked goods you can buy! To counteract all those calories you’ve consumed from those goodies, however, City Market is putting on Wellness Wednesdays the first Wednesday of every month into October, with an [...]

Free Jo Dee Messina Concert at Crown Center

The free summer concerts are winding down. This Friday, August 28, 2009 you can catch country music star Jo Dee Messina at Crown Center Square.
Billy Doores is the opening act.
Bring blankets and/or lawn chairs and food and non-alcoholic drinks.  Crown Center is t 2450 Grand Blvd. in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Free Whoop De Doo Family Day at the Art Museum

Get your whoop on for Whoop Dee Doo Family Day! According to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art website, Artists  Jaimie Warren and Matt Roche will lead art-making workshops for families and children of all ages. Join them to create fantastical, colorful, and imaginative props and costumes for a Whoop Dee Doo extravaganza that brings [...]

Free Safety Day at Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead

When my kids were little they loved going to Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead. Maybe I can borrow some kids and go to Safety Day at the Farmstead this Saturday, August 29, 2009. The Overland Park fire and police departments, the Kansas Highway Patrol, D.A.R.E., and other organizations will be on hand to teach children about [...]

Free Kitchen Kids Cookbook

Do your kids like to cook? You can get them a free 16-page Kitchen Kids Cookbook. Yes, it’s a marketing promotion by the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, but it’s a cookbook. It’s free. There are cheesy recipies.
You have two options–

You can request a free copy by mail.
You can download a free PDF of the Kitchen [...]

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