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Weekend Planner: Taste of the Islands, Big Band Blues

Here's what's happening in and around Elk Grove this weekend.

Elk Grove residents love a good time—for proof, check out the number of late-summer shindigs on our event calendar.  We've got the 411 on a few weekend highlights below. Join your friends over food and drink or at an outdoor concert, and party 'til the cows come home. Just don't forget the designated driver; Elk Grove PD is watching.

Grass skirt optional. Hawaiian Tropical Luau is the theme for the Franklin Football Boosters 4th Annual Wildcat Football Dinner/Dance fundraiser Friday at the 's Valley Oak Ballroom, complete with raffles, a live auction and dance performance by Makamae Melia O' Polynesia.  Festivities go from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. 

Showtime.  If the sounds of harmonicas and horns float your boat, don't miss the Delta Wires at 6:30 p.m. this Saturday at McConnell Estates Winery.  Gates open at 5:30 p.m., so arrive a bit early to claim a great lawn spot and relax over a glass of wine before the music starts.

License and registration, please.  Going out for some socializing over drinks?  Be sure to cab it or find a teetotaler pal to man the wheel; the Elk Grove Police Department is conducting a sobriety and driver's license checkpoint this Saturday from 8 p.m. until 3 a.m. 

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Christine Brainerd May 21, 2013 at 04:29 pm
Thanks for the suggestion. The City is currently studying a new interchange off 99 and Whitelock,Read More and the project is in our General Plan. We’re also updating the Elk Grove Blvd. onramp—currently one of the most outdated on 99 in the region. Work will begin this summer.
JJ Johnson May 21, 2013 at 04:15 pm
An overpass and off/on ramps will be built at Whitelock Parkway after the mall is built, whichRead More should take place after the soccer stadium is built, which should take place after the city secures a professional soccer team. Elk Grove better make sure the professional soccer team is a women's team, or else LaWanna Montgomery will be mad.
Elk Grove Laguna Forums May 20, 2013 at 06:14 pm
Why not down to Grantline and then head back north along the freeway? Plus Kammerer will eventuallyRead More be widened all the way to I-5 and commuters can use that too. Take Grantline to Kammerer to Bruceville.
Cody Kitaura (Editor) May 20, 2013 at 12:04 pm
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I was wondering the same thing! nothing on news or in the paper. What happened