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Events in July–August 2025

  • Summer Reading Challenge

    Summer Reading Challenge

    June 9, 2025

    Summer Reading Challenge, Great River Regional Library. For kids ages 0-18. For registration details contact your library or visit griver.org/summer-reading-challenge.

    Summer Recreation Soccer

    Summer Recreation Soccer

    July 6, 2025

    Summer Recreation Soccer, (times vary; check website), Pine Meadow Primary School, 1029 Fifth St. N., Sartell. Players born between 2015 and 2020. sartellsoccer.org.

    Spiritual R & R Day

    Spiritual R & R Day


    July 15, 2025

    Spiritual R & R Day, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.., St. Benedict's Monastery, 104 Chapel Lane, St. Joseph. This day offers time and space for quiet prayer, reflection, reading, resting and meeting with a spiritual director if desired. Group prayer begins and ends the day. Mid-day prayer and noon meal at the monastery are optional. Free-will offering accepted. Optional noon meal at the monastery for a nominal fee. Limit: 10 participants. To register: https://sbm.osb.org/event/spiritual-r-r-day-3/ 

    Benton County Museum

    Benton County Museum


    July 15, 2025 July 18, 2025

    Benton County Museum, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 218 First St. N., Sauk Rapids. 320-253-9614. https://mnbentonhistory.org

    Memory Writers

    Memory Writers


    July 15, 2025

    Memory Writers, group develops topics and turn in stories, 10 a.m., Stearns History Museum, 235 33rd Ave. S, St Cloud.

    Mobile office hours

    Mobile office hours


    July 15, 2025

    Mobile office hours, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Sartell City Hall. A caseworker from Rep. Tom Emmer’s office will be available to handle issues with federal government services. 

    Summer Storytime

    Summer Storytime


    July 15, 2025

    Summer Storytime, 10:15-10:45 a.m. and 11-11:30 a.m., Great River Regional Library, 1300 W. St. Germain St., St. Cloud. Join us for stories, songs and fun. Books are geared for 3- to 6-year-olds but younger and older friends are welcome. Limit 30 children per session. No advanced registration, please check in at the Children's desk upon arrival.

    Summer Storytime

    Summer Storytime


    July 15, 2025

    Summer Storytime, 10:15-10:45 a.m. and 11-11:30 a.m., Great River Regional Library, 1300 W. St. Germain St., St. Cloud. Join us for stories, songs and fun. Limit 30 children per session. No advanced registration; please check in at the Children's desk upon arrival.

    Garden Chat: Q and A with the Master Gardeners

    Garden Chat: Q and A with the Master Gardeners


    July 15, 2025

    Garden Chat: Q and A with the Master Gardeners, 1-3 p.m., Great River Regional Library (main lobby, first floor), 1300 W. St. Germain St., St. Cloud. Ask gardening questions of the Master Gardeners of Stearns and Benton counties who will be available to provide research-based information from the University of Minnesota Extension. Find additional gardening information at www3.extension.umn.edu/county/stearns Walk in; no registration required. 

    St. Joseph Food Shelf

    St. Joseph Food Shelf


    July 15, 2025

    St. Joseph Food Shelf, 1-3 p.m., 18 Birch St. E.

    Laundry Love

    Laundry Love


    July 15, 2025

    Laundry Love, 5-8 p.m., St. Joseph Laundromat, 31 W. Minnesota St. The first and third Tuesdays of the month, guests will be able to get quarters and laundry supplies to do their laundry. Volunteers come from St. John’s Campus Ministry, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church and the Central Minnesota Catholic Worker.

    St. Joseph Lions

    St. Joseph Lions


    July 15, 2025

    St. Joseph Lions, 7:30 p.m., Millstream Park Pavilion 101 Fifth Ave. NW., St. Joseph. Joanne Bechtold, 320-363-4483.

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