The NYA Senior Advisory Commission set an ambitious goal for 2024: to host a multigenerational dance, a throwback to the pre-COVID era’s Spring Fling and Fall Balls. Unsure of where
Sandra Parsons brought her three young children along to pick up several containers of food during the Free Community Meal night, largely because pizza was on the menu.
Megan Becker stood alongside the decorated tree in Gazebo Park and pointed at a yarn-style decoration that intrigued her.
âIs that what people are talking about?â the 8-year-old asked her grandmother, Emma Blanchard. âI like it. I canât wait to make one.â
Yarn-styled ornaments and decorations have been cropping up all around the city of Carver thanks to a consolidated effort from various groups. Itâs called Strings of Connection, a community art installation effort.
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The decorations are sticks wound with colorful yarn and represent unseen connections with one another and the natural world.
âWe are all connected even when we canât see it,â said Anna Edlund, a gifted services facilitator for Eastern Carver County Schools.