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2025 Spring Fundraiser, with Special guest, Layne Kennedy

We are so excited to announce this year’s fundraiser dinner will be Tuesday, May 6th at 6 p.m., at the Lake Elmo Inn Event Center. Their chef has promised that this year’s dinner will be as delicious as it was last year.
We are extremely blessed and fortunate to have award-winning nature photographer, Layne Kennedy, as our guest speaker. Layne is nationally-recognized magazine photographer shooting assignments around the globe for publications like Smithsonian, National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Book Division, Outside, and Newsweek. His recent books include, Paddle North-Canoeing The Boundary Waters/Quetico Wilderness and A Hard Water World-Ice Fishing And Why We Do It, both by the prestigious Minnesota Historical Society Press.
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Or, if you want to donate by check, checks may be written to “Sally Manzara Interpretive Nature Center” or “Friends of Lake Elmo’s Sunfish Lake Park” and mailed to PO Box 241, Lake Elmo, MN 55042. Contributions will be acknowledged by letter.
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(IRA) or 401(k) plans force you to make an annual Required Minimum Distribution beginning at age 70 1/2. If this distribution in taken in cash, it is taxed as ordinary income at your marginal tax rate. If it is donated, the amount can be taken as a tax deduction, and reduces your adjusted gross income and your tax liability. Request that part of your required minimum distribution be taken as a check to donate to “Sally Manzara Interpretive Nature Center”