Our Top 10 Ways To Find Out What’s Going On In Dixie
How do you find out what is going on in the area? This page is full of suggestions, dates ideas, and all the inside hot spots that you might not have heard about or might not know all the details on how to make them happen. Use this as your guide and make things happen. Let’s get started. Here are my TOP 10 resources to find out what’s going on that have been used with great success.
- Create your own event. There is no substitute for your own creativity. You won’t always find something totally amazing that other people have planned every single day. There won’t always be an activity in town or at your school or wherever and you will have to think of and plan an idea yourself! Don’t just sit around and wait for somebody to think of something fun to do. Look at my list of date ideas to get some good ideas. Then make them happen. Be creative, combine ideas and think of something fun. Once you have an idea you can start to invite people, send that text, make the phone call, or use your social network to find the right people or person to invite. People will appreciate that you took the time and planned an event in ADVANCE and invited them to join you. Soon you will be the popular one everybody wants to be friends with because you make things happen, you plan activities and you know what’s going on! Now that being said, there is nothing wrong with going to other people’s events and activities. Here are some places that I usually find some activities that are going on and things that could be fun to attend. Be sure to plan in advance and try to know ahead of time what’s going on.
- Get on your friends texting list
Ask your friends if you can get on their texting list. Whenever something fun is going on ask your friends to text you, or just send a text out to your friends “Do you know of anything going on this week? This weekend?” so you have options when fun things come up. Do the same and text them and other people you know when you know about something fun going on.
- Be part of a social network. Being part of a social network can greatly help as well. Schools, churches, businesses, organizations and more are all getting involved with social networks. Joining these groups will help you know what’s going on. Getting invites and creating events is a great way to find out what’s going on and a great way to advertise your events and make things happen for yourself. If you’re in school, join groups like student activities, sports if you’re into certain sports, church groups for the church you go to, music if you’re into certain music. Groups will usually plan activities and events and being part of their social network will help you be in the know. In St. George there is a group called “Today’s great adventure” where people go and post things that they know are happening and can be good activities to meet new people. Some of the most popular social networks are Facebook.com, twitter.com, myspace.com, Google plus. If you are looking specifically for dating there are several dating web-sites as well.
- Check out your local newspapers. St. George’s The Spectrum has a weekly publication called what’s going on. You can get it in your newspaper or you can find them at several locations in town where newspapers are distributed. They post several of these events online as well at: http://search.thespectrum.com/localevents
The Dixie Sun is Dixie State University’s newspaper and has lots of good ideas for those looking for things to do in the area. http://www.dixiesunlink.com/
- School calendars. Many schools and University’s offer an up to date calendar showing what campus and community events are happening at the school. Dixie State University’s is located at: http://new.dixie.edu/reg/?page=events_calendar
- Community calendars: There are many community calendars out there as well. I really like these ones.
http://www.dixietoday.com/calendar.html (Excellent web-site with different events)
http://calendar.atozion.com/ (Another great calendar of activities by week or day)
http://www.435events.com/ (nice website full of events in Southern Utah)
http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/calendar/
http://www.ivins.com/home/calendar/
http://calendar.utahstgeorge.com/index.html
7. Fitness Centers: Many fitness centers have Spin, Muscle Strengthening, Martial Arts, Boxing, Zumba, Kickboxing, Cardio, Ballroom dance, Water work out, Step, Pilates, Yoga, and Hula classes. Fitness classes can make an excellent date.
http://mysummitathleticclub.com/
http://www.desertpalmshealthclub.com/
http://www.elevationfitness.biz/
http://www.bestgymever.com/classes
8. Rec Centers
http://washingtoncity.org/communitycenter/ (see what the Washington Rec center has to offer)
http://www.sgcity.org/recreation/ (city recreational activities)
9. Join a club/group/organization
http://www.dixie.edu/diversity/student_clubs.php
http://www.stgeorgelions.com/wp/
http://suswa.com/ (find out where concerts, music and song writers meet)
https://studentview.ldschurch.org/Home.aspx/Events/60252 (Activities going on at the LDS Institute at Dixie State University)
Dating in Dixie has their own social club called “DATES” short for Dixies Adventures Tours Events & Socials. To learn more about it click here
- Surf the web. Here are some link’s for different things around Southern Utah.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/stgevents/ (Find out about Dance parties)
http://stgeorge.craigslist.org/search/act?query (People in Southern Utah looking for a friend like you to join them on different activities)
http://www.sgcity.org/parks/search/ (find out where locals parks are and what each park has to offer.)
http://www.fiestafuncenter.com/ (Fun date activities, go carts, mini golf, games, driving range)
http://www.laser-mania.com/index_sg.html (Laser tag, indoor mini golf, 4D movie, games)
http://www.paragonadventure.com/programs.html?id=26(Indoor rock climbing, zip lining, hiking, biking adventures)
