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WHAT: Rumor of a Riot fundraiser
WHEN: Friday, April 28, 6:30pm
WHERE: Elks Lodge

Riot Act hosts this 1980s dinner, game night, and dance party. Dress in your favorite 80s upper class duds. Enjoy dinner with make-your-own pizzas and a special dessert. After dinner, join the game stations or jump in the photo booth. Everything will culminate in a 80s dance party.
Tickets are available online for $20 or at the door for $25. Ticket price includes dinner and one drink.

 

WHAT: Back to Basics Community 2nd Annual Family Barn Dance
WHEN: Teton County Fair
WHERE: Saturday, April 29, 6-10pm

Stagecoach Band will provide the music. Raffles, pony rides, fun for the whole family. Lasagna, mixed salad, mac-n-cheese, Bunnery cake. Teton Ale and root beer, lemonade.
Back to Basics: Connecting generations and cultures through quality time, the outdoors, and traditional skills.

 

WHAT: Junior Ranger Day
WHEN: Saturday, April 29, 10am – 1pm
WHERE: Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center in Moose

Families and children of all ages are invited to join Grand Teton National Park rangers and naturalists. This year’s event, titled “To the Tetons…and Beyond,” is themed around astronomy, dark skies, and the total solar eclipse the park will experience this summer.

 

WHAT: Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Speaker Bert Romberg
WHEN: Saturday, April 29, 6pm
WHERE: St. John’s Church Hansen Hall

The Jackson Hole Jewish Community presents “The Kindertransport – Memories of, and reflections on, a refugee’s escape from tyranny.”
Bert Romberg is a part time resident of Jackson Hole and has been invited by the JHJC to speak to the community during this annual observance of Holocaust remembrance. His story is one of the relatively few happy endings in that the Kindertransport took just 10,000 children out of Germany right before the outbreak of war in 1939.

 

WHAT: “Take-Back” Drug Day
WHEN: Saturday, April 29, 10am – 2pm
WHERE: Smith’s Food and Drug

Jackson Police Department partners with the Drug Enforcement Administration and on a nationwide prescription drug “Take-Back” initiative in hopes of preventing increased pill abuse and theft. The program is completely anonymous and citizens are asked to turn in expired, unused, or unwanted prescription or over the counter medications for destruction. Liquid medications and hypodermic needles cannot be accepted.

 

WHAT: Children’s Day Fiesta
WHEN: Saturday, April 29, 11am – 1pm
WHERE: Teton County Library

Celebrating children and reading. Families are invited to a fun, festive day at the library. Enjoy storytelling, Mexican Folklorico, a clown show, crafts, and children’s books.