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Good day, Wayzata. This is Wayzata Scoop: The local newsletter that makes fall feel even better. And that's saying something.

In today’s Scoop:

• Resilient Community Voices: Plymouth's Oct. 28 Event Goes Beyond Awareness 📢

• Wayzata Needs Your Help Making Gardens Winter-Ready (Free Coffee Included) 🪏

• Plymouth's New STEM Event Features Robots, Chemical Reactions, and Zero Boredom 🧪

• Burger Brawl Alert: Plymouth's Ultimate Slider Showdown Benefits Hammer & NER 🍔

Let’s crush it.

— Dustin Hart

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📢 TALK OF THE TOWN

Plymouth's Tackling Domestic Violence Awareness with Resources, Real Talk, and Yoga

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Plymouth's not just acknowledging it. They're creating actual space for conversation, support, and community healing.

Resilient Community Voices hits Tuesday, Oct. 28, from 6-8 p.m. at Plymouth Community Center (14800 34th Ave. N). It's part resource fair, part panel discussion, part moment to breathe – because addressing domestic violence requires both practical support and emotional processing.

Starting at 6 p.m., browse a resource fair featuring domestic violence shelters, advocacy organizations, healthcare providers, legal resources, and law enforcement. Real organizations, real help, all in one room. The "Voices Wall" will be up too – an interactive space to honor survivors, reflect, and leave messages of support. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is acknowledge what others have survived.

At 7 p.m., a panel of community experts discusses prevention, intervention, and the systemic challenges that make escaping domestic violence so complicated. Q&A follows because these conversations shouldn't happen in a vacuum. The evening wraps with a 20-minute guided restorative yoga session at 8 p.m., because healing isn't just intellectual – it's physical too.

Free event. No registration required. Real resources, honest conversation, and space to process. Plymouth's doing Domestic Violence Awareness Month right.

Oct. 28, 6-8 p.m. at Plymouth Community Center. Come for the resources, stay for the community.

Wayzata's Pull It Day: Garden Cleanup Meets Neighborhood Mixer

Nothing builds community quite like ripping dead plants out of the ground together on a Saturday morning.

Wayzata's Public Works Department needs volunteers on Saturday, Oct. 18, from 8:30-10 a.m. to prep city gardens for winter, and they're making it as painless as possible. Check in at Panoway Plaza on Wayzata Bay, grab some refreshments (because caffeine makes everything better), then get dispersed to gardens in groups. It's volunteering, but also a legitimate excuse to meet your neighbors without the awkward small talk over hedges.

This is peak family-friendly volunteering – bring the kids, your partner, a group of neighbors, or just yourself. Worst-case scenario: you spend 90 minutes doing something productive while your town looks better. Best case: you actually connect with other humans who also care about local greenspace.

The math is simple: 90 minutes of pulling dead stuff = winter-ready gardens + new neighborhood connections + that smug satisfaction of being a good citizen.

Sign up at wayzata.org/volunteer. Your back and your community will thank you.

Plymouth's Turning Science Into a Saturday Morning Spectacle (Explosions Likely)

If your kids are going to make a mess in the name of learning, might as well be somewhere that's prepared for it.

Plymouth's launching STEMtacular Saturday on Nov. 8 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Plymouth Community Center (14800 34th Ave. N), and it's basically science chaos in the best way possible. We're talking balloon-powered hovercrafts, catapults, mini robots, gummy bear experiments, chemical reactions, LEGO engineering, and 3D printing demos. It's National STEM/STEAM Day celebration meets "let's see what happens when we combine this with that."

Plymouth partnered with the STEM Lab of Minnesota to set up instructor-led activity stations where kids (ages 4+) can experiment freely and move at their own pace. Translation: no forced march through boring demonstrations – just pure hands-on discovery with actual guidance when needed. The "squishy science" and "sound science" stations alone are worth the price of admission.

The cost is $45 per adult-kid couple for Plymouth residents ($54 for non-residents), plus $20 for each additional person. So bringing the whole family won't completely wreck the budget, and you get two hours of educational entertainment that actually holds attention spans.

Register at the link below or contact Recreation Supervisor Paul Pearson at [email protected] for more details. Your Saturday morning just got exponentially more interesting.

Register for STEMtacular Saturday – where learning involves catapults and nobody judges the mess.

Luce Line's First Burger Brawl: Five Sliders, One Beer, Zero Losers

When a brewery teams up with local burger joints and a nonprofit for a Saturday showdown, everybody wins. Especially you.

Luce Line Brewing in Plymouth is hosting the First Annual Burger Brawl on Saturday, Oct. 11 from 3-9 p.m., and it's exactly what it sounds like: local burger spots competing for supremacy while you eat, drink, and ultimately decide who makes the best slider in the metro. Your $50 ticket gets you five sliders (your picks from the competing joints), one Luce Line beer pour, one vote for the winner, and live music from American Bootleg starting at 6 p.m.

The brewery's releasing a limited-edition beer brewed exclusively for the event, available only on-site during the Brawl. KFAN's sponsoring as media partner, so you know this thing has legs. The tasting window runs 3-5 p.m. with 1.5-inch sliders from top local burger joints, then voting and awards happen from 5-6 p.m. before the music kicks off.

Here's the real kicker: proceeds benefit Hammer & NER, a Minnesota nonprofit providing safe housing and support for adults with developmental disabilities. So you're not just eating great burgers and drinking exclusive beer – you're funding dignity, inclusion, and community support for people who need it.

Five sliders, craft beer, live music, and actual community impact. That's $50 well spent.

Oct. 11, 3-9 p.m. at Luce Line Brewing (12901 16th Ave N, Plymouth). Get tickets before they're gone.

📖 QOTW (QUOTE OF THE WEEK)

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain

🌪️ WEATHER WATCH

We're cruising through the 60s all week like it's the world's most consistent lukewarm bath.

Fri 10 66°/39° Sunny ☀️ | 💧7%

Sat 11 67°/55° Mostly Sunny 🌤️ | 💧5%

Sun 12 68°/50° Showers 🌧️ | 💧40%

Mon 13 59°/38° Mostly Sunny 🌤️ | 💧17%

Tue 14 56°/44° Partly Cloudy 🌤️ | 💧6%

Wed 15 60°/47° Mostly Cloudy 🌥️ | 💧24%

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