This Weekend: FATFAR

Mike Paulus |

FATFAR’s on Sunday! This is the “world’s largest one-day tubing and float event” – the Frenchtown Annual Tube Float and Regatta. More than 5,000 people will float down the beautiful Chippewa River. Activities (volleyball, cookout), food, and entertainment, and tube, canoe, kayak, and shuttle rentals are available for rent at Loopy's Grill and Saloon. Road construction will make access a bit more difficult, but you can use Main Street on the southside of Chippewa Falls get to a launch site. Sunday, June 20 • Chippewa River betwixt Chippewa Falls and Lake Hallie

BIKES: Nature Valley Grand Prix: Menomonie Area Bike Festival | Bike Race beginning on Main Street, kid’s games at the Mabel Tainter, movies in the Mabel Tainter auditorium, and a chalk art fest in the Clock Tower Courtyard at UW-Stout. (Main Street, Mabel Tainter Theatre, and UW-Stout Campus, Menomonie; Saturday; website)

BEER: Leinie Lodge Annual Family Reunion | Leinenkugel Brewery’s seventh annual customer appreciation celebration at the Leinie Lodge. Come enjoy family and complimentary food, self-guided brewery tours (groups of 15), beer sampling, and music by RADA DADA. The first 100 guests to arrive will receive a complimentary Leinie's gift. (Leinenkugel Brewery, Chippewa Falls; Sat. 9am-4pm; free)

SOLSTICE: Sostice on Grand Art Flaire | Fine arts fair featuring over 60 exhibitors on the grounds of the Cook-Rutledge mansion. You can also tour the mansion, a truly unique, 1187 restored and furnished lumber baron’s home that exemplifies High Victorian Italiante architecture. Hosted by Valley Art Association. (Cook-Rutledge Mansion, 505 W Grand Ave., Chippewa Falls; Sat., 9am-5pm; free)

The rest of Saturday here. More of a Sunday person? This link's for you.