Sunday, January 10, 2010

Eagan's 150th birthday!

Eagan residents gathered at the Eagan Community Center on Saturday evening, January 9 to celebrate the beginning of Eagan's 150th birthday year. Mayor Mike Maguire gave the opening celebratory speech. Scott Swenson, 150th birthday committee chairperson, also welcomed guests and spoke. Loud horns sounded, people ate cake, a quartet sang and everyone seemed to enjoy the opening event.






25 comments:

brattcat said...

Happy Birthday, Eagan. Save some cake for me please.

Verna Luga said...

Congratulations to Eagan.... Long Live!

Greetings from the people of the city where I came from, Davao City!

Phivos Nicolaides said...

Long live the King of Minnesota. Congratulations my dear friend and best wishes.

Rob Siemann said...

Long live Eagan! Leif for mayor!

GreensboroDailyPhoto said...

Happy Sesquicentennial!

I shall never forget that word. Years ago, it cost me a win in a trivia game and I've been waiting patiently to use it ever since!!!!!! Hopefully, your great city celebrates your daily photo efforts as you bring Egan to the world, DAILY!!!!!

Jan
GDP

Lois said...

What an elegant looking cake! Happy Birthday to Eagan!

Lowell said...

150 years? And I'll bet you were there at the beginning of the creation! In your Longjohns, of course!

Is it true that as you were running around with your camera and as the cake disappeared, someone said, "Boy, Safe Leif takes the cake"?

I suppose that up there in the far north indoor events are important so that people don't freeze to death. I'm curious, though, about the long horns. Probably to awaken Minneeesotans out of their comatose winter slumber?

Hope you had a good time. Leif for mayor? Heh, heh!

Kajsa (your daughter) said...

Leif Martian Hagen is Eagan really 100 years old?

Gunn said...

Congratulations to ALL of you!!!
The BIG cake looks very nice, and I hope it had something really soft and yummy inside.... (?)

Rob said...

Hard to believe Eagan is now 150. It seems like such a length of time, yet seems so new.

Amy said...

yes congrats to Eagan! That cake looks delish!

Unknown said...

Happy Birthday, Eagan! (The cake looks delicious!) :-)

VP said...

Happy Birthday and my congratulations to Eagan!

Christchurch Photo Diary said...

Happy Birthday Egan! Hope that cake was as delish as it looks!

Halcyon said...

Happy birthday Eagan!!!

Elaine Yim said...

How lucky to be able to witness such a great historical moment.

Anonymous said...

Concratulations also from me. May all its inhabitants be glad to live there.
A wonderful new week for all of you.

peppermint said...

Happy bday to Eagan. I think 150 years is still young and energetic for the city. May good things will come.

Julie ScottsdaleDailyPhoto.com said...

this is rather cool.

JTG (Misalyn) said...

Congratulations and happy 150th birthday to Aegan.

Can you send me a piece of cake? :) That one looks so yummy, i wonder how it tastes like :)
Am salivating here, my salivary glands can't help but continue to release such gastrointestinal enzymes hahahaha.

By the way, thanks for visiting my blog. I am grateful. I am so slow with commenting these past few days because something is wrong with our internet speed. It takes years to open a webpage.

Have a nice day.

Pat said...

That's a number most of us won't see on our birthday cake! Happy Birthday!

Andreea said...

Happy birthday Eagan!

cieldequimper said...

Bon anniversaire Eagan, you are still so young! ;-)

Paty said...

congratulations!

Unseen Rajasthan said...

Congratulations !!