November is National Adopt-a-Senior-Pet Month.

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There are lots of black labs at the shelter –
Come on in & have a look!

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So many kittens are available . . . in all colors, shapes & sizes!

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Come meet Teton County’s local and regional farmers and enjoy this year’s harvest at the Jackson Whole Grocer for their 2^nd annual festival. Sample grilled beef & lamb from local ranchers, delicacies from local food producers, breweries, wineries & mead makers. Purchase food from their deli, local products and produce from local farmers’ last harvest of the season. Watch free demonstrations, enjoy kids’ activities, listen to local musicians and celebrate the end of another growing season!

When: Saturday, September 26, 11am-4pm

Where: Jackson Whole Grocer’s parking lot, rain or shine!

For more information on the event or to get a complete list of participants contact Steve Michel, JWG’s Director of Sustainability at 733-0450 or stevenm@jacksonwholegrocer.com.

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Students and local artists will contribute work to the silent auction, and the proceeds will be donated to the JHCS Scholarship Program and the Teton Literacy Program. If you are an artist and are interested in donating a piece of your artwork to this event, please contact Robin Ackerman. The deadline for submissions is March 13.

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Location:  Walk Festival Hall, Teton Village

info: Grand Teton Music Festival

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The First Annual Jackson Hole Youth Soccer Fundraiser ‘The Soccer Ball’ will be held at the Q Roadhouse on March 21 to benefit the youth soccer program. The evening will include live music, live auction, great food and drink.

Tickets are $75.00 sold at Merry Piglets, Sidewinders, Betty Rock Café and the Q Roadhouse.

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at Spring Creek Ranch.

Featuring MC Michael Peterson, Chuck Cannon and Chuck’s wife, Lari White.

Dinner, silent and live auction, and meet and greet with the performers.

for tickets, contact Derek Goodson at Spring Creek Ranch 307-732-8155.

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March 3rd and Again on Wed, March 4th

Tickets $15

Imagine: Bob Marley meets Manu Chao and invites Ozomatli to add a tasty sprinkling of Latin funk. The resulting sounds are delicious and on point. By DJ Sandina (Oakland, California)

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Yellowstone National Park closes for the spring today.

Spring:

The North Entrance to Northeast Entrance at Silver Gate and Cooke City, Montana is open all year. Please note that this road is closed to east/west travel just east of Cooke City from late fall to early spring.

Once an Entrance/Road opens, it is open 24 hours a day. The only exceptions are caused by road construction and weather-related restrictions.

Roads will open to motorized, wheeled vehicles as follows:

• April 17, 2009–West side roads open to motor vehicles. Mammoth to Norris Junction to Madison Junction to Old Faithful; Madison Junction to West Entrance; Norris Junction to Canyon
• May 1, 2009–Canyon to Lake; Lake to East Entrance
• May 8, 2009–Tower to Tower Fall; Lake to West Thumb; West Thumb to Old Faithful; South to Old Faithful. Cooke City via Colter Pass to the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway intersection to the Long Lake gate shall be open as soon thereafter as possible.
• May 22 (if snow and plow conditions allow): Tower Falls to Canyon via Dunraven Pass; Long Lake Gate to Red Lodge via Beartooth Pass.

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Contact: http://www.snowdevils.org/
Location info: Snow King Mountain

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The National Museum of Wildlife Art presents Restoring Bison in North America: Past and Present with Keith Aune of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), during Art After Hours on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 7:00pm.  Admission to galleries and program is free.

Free
5:00 – 9:00pm galleries open, Museum Shop open until 7:00 pm
5:30pm Rising Sage Café opens
7:00pm Program in the Cook Auditorium
Reservations recommended for Tapas. Call the Tapas Hotline: 307-732-5434.

About Art After Hours & Tapas Tuesdays
Presented by the Dragicevich Foundation, Art After Hours is a wonderful winter-time evening event series at the National Museum of Wildlife Art.  Perfect for an evening of culture after work or après ski, the Museum’s 14 galleries and superb Museum Shop are open late.

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The Town Downhill at Snow King is an annual spring tradition

More info here, on the JH ski club page

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Monday, March 9 – Egypt in the 21^st Century

At the Library

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at Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary in part of the first Friday series.

See the article on the event here

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At the Center for the Arts, Center Theater

Bob Behr, a native of Berlin, Germany, and a survivor of the Nazis’ efforts to exterminate the Jews, visits Jackson Hole to tell his story in the Center Theater.

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The 2nd Annual Gelande Quaffing World Championships took place February 26th outside the Village Cafe in Teton Village, WY. Sixteen teams of thirsty ski bums crowded center stage to amuse tourists, locals and resort employees with their beer-guzzling antics. The event is a throwback to days when original members of the Jackson Hole Air Force hunkered down in the Bear Claw (what is now the Village Cafe) and slid mugs of beer off the bar to awaiting participants.

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The Rhumb Line

Obviously it isn’t hard to have a good day during those cheery summer months, but it’s mid-winter and warm mornings are impossibly out of reach. Instead I have to wake up and somehow motivate myself to bring my car to life and scrape ice off the windshield. I can’t even play the music I want because my car stereo gets so stupidly cold that the only thing it’ll play is the radio. And the nine o’clock news rarely causes me to turn up the volume and rock out. Rarely.
But despite the frigid air, when the sun is high and bright I’ve found myself rolling down my car window (with the heat on, mind you) and blasting some Ra Ra Riot, an excellent band that’s finally getting some well-deserved attention. With the upbeat melodies of Vampire Weekend and harmonic arrangements reminiscent of The Shins, the band’s great debut album The Rhumb Line has that optimistic vibe that’s imperative to our February-dampened souls. Although the band has somewhat of a grim past (their original drummer tragically drowned), they bring joy—but little originality—to each track. With tinges of cello and violin in the background, “Ghost Under Rocks” is a great, fast-paced opening tune, and I highly recommend the catchy “Can You Tell,” a song I’ve had on repeat since Tuesday.
But I can’t help thinking of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah during the indie rock cover of Kate Bush’s “Suspended in Gaffa,” and “Winter ‘05” sounds like a song Badly Drawn Boy already wrote, so there’s nothing eye-popping to this album on its surface. Instead, think of it like the best mix CD (complete with the 80s synth-licked “Too Too Too Fast”) your hip, with-the-times friend burned for you. Even with its imitative themes, you’ll no doubt enjoy listening to Ra Ra Riot’s successful attempts at making you feel like it’s summer and everything is falling into place.

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Grand Teton National Park is about to celebrate its 80th birthday on Thursday. The legislation that put Grand Teton National Park officially on the map was passed by President Calvin Coolidge on February 26th, 1929. However, the history of our beloved GTNP is quite a saga. The area we know today as Grand Teton National Park actually celebrates 3 birthdays, explains Jackie Skaggs, a spokeswoman for GTNP.

1943 marks the year that the Jackson Hole National Monument was established, combining lands donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and other surrounding federal tracts that are now included in GTNP. And finally, in 1950, the original 1929 park and the 1943 monument were merged into what is today’s GTNP. Compared to the 2 years it took to establish Yellowstone National Park as the first national park, GTNP has has traveled a long road.

The 3 dates now sprinkle the time line of GTNP’s history, but the controversy, political agendas and ultimately the grit and determination of a few make up the story that fills in the details behind the dates. For an interesting overview, read the Skaggs’ press release here, or put Robert Righter’s  Crucible for Conservation: The Struggle for Grand Teton National Park on your reading list.

Skaggs explained that no large celebration events are planned, but to stay tuned for possible special presentations throughout the year highlighting the park’s 80th birthday.

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Is Resistance Training Appropriate for your next race?  Maybe the Pole Pedal Paddle?

How much lactic acid or “waste,” can your body buffer before you hit the “wall” during the PPP?  The more the better, right?  Or, what if your body could delay the production of “waste.”  How?  Efficiency!

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