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Embark on an Apple Quest
Looking for a new family activity to try out? Why not see if your family can locate all the bronze apples hidden along Main Street. Pick up your Apple Quest brochure today, and use the clues to guide you on your mission to find the apples.
Apple QUEST is a permanent scavenger hunt created by Girl Scout Troop 1886, Henderson County, NC. It was a joint Silver Award project chosen but the girls and inspired by Greenville, SC’s ‘Mice on Main’
Apple Quest is a FREE activity for families and a great way to explore the wonders of downtown Hendersonville.
The Apple Quest brochure is available at the Visitor Center or digitally online at the link attached. Visitor Center Hours of operation are Monday – Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
HCC 12th Annual Wild Game Dinner
The Haywood Community College Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society is proud to host the 11th Annual Wild Game Dinner, a community potluck at the Haywood County Fairgrounds. Enjoy dishes you won’t find anywhere else, serving rabbit, bear, venison and more.
Please join us and support the student chapter! Bring your favorite wild game dish, veggies, or dessert! Bread and drinks will be provided.
$10 per person ($5 if you bring a dish)
Kids under 12 are free!
There will be prize drawings, live music, an animal call competition (open to everyone), silent and live auctions!
Grand prize winner will receive a lifetime Hunting/Fishing License!
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
828.627.4560 or srabby@haywood.edu
Movies at Pack series (all ages)
Popcorn and snacks provided.
Held downstairs in our auditorium. ALL ages are welcome!
Mar 17th: “The Secret of Roan Inish.” Based on the novel “Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry”, by Rosalie K. Fry … It is centered on the Irish and Orcadian folklores of selkies, seals that can shed their skins to become human. The story, set on the west coast of Ireland, is about Fiona, a young girl who is sent to live with her grandparents and her cousin Eamon near the island of Roan Inish, where the selkies are rumored to reside. It is a family legend that her younger brother was swept away in his infancy and raised by a selkie. Part of the film takes place in Donegal. (IMDB)
Rated PG
Calling All Bird Watchers! (8-14yrs)
Join us as a scientist from the NC Arboretum teaches how to be an expert bird watcher, and why bird watching can be a very significant way of studying the health of our environment. Learn to be an EcoExplorer, and receive a Free pair of Binoculars for coming, while supplies last. Ages 8-14
Magnet School Enrollment Events
The Asheville City Schools Magnet Office (K-5), in partnership with the Parent Involvement Coordinator, will be available on the dates below to answer any enrollment questions and accept applications for the 2017-18 school year.
Books with Brett Storytime
Come join us for our first ever Books with Brett Storytime with crafts, popcorn and a book reading. This week’s theme is dragons.
For crafts we will be coloring dragon, knight and princess pictures. The kiddos will have the choice to hang their artwork on the Jumphouse wall or take them home.
All kids will get a free bag of freshly popped pop-corn.
Around 9:30 the kiddos will gather around and get to hear a story read by Brett. This week Brett will be reading Herb, The Vegetarian Dragon by Jules Bass and Debbie Harter.
The event and popcorn are free. Brett will have books available for sale or ordering.
The inflatables will be down during storytime but will be opening up for General Admission at 10am. General Admission for inflatable play is $6 per child with no charge for adults.
Become a Citizen Scientist ecoEXPLORER!
SCIENTISTS NEED YOUR HELP!
“ecoEXPLORE is an incentive-driven science enrichment program of The North Carolina Arboretum Society that engages K-8th grade students in WNC, in guided and self-directed citizen science activities, that combines science exploration with kid-friendly technology to foster a fun learning environment for children and encourages them to explore the outdoors and become a citizen scientist. Students engage as active participants of the scientific method as they record observations of organisms found in their neighborhoods, libraries and at the Arboretum.” See it, Snap it, Share it! Get out and explore, take photographs of what you find, and then email your observations in to earn points you can use to get Field Tools from GetSpots.
If you would like to solve scientific mysteries, discover new species, or contribute real scientific data to scientists, become an ecoEXPLORER!
Earn prizes and badges, meet and work with real scientists, receive FREE invites to special programs & events at The North Carolina Arboretum, and help scientists study wildlife.
LEARN MORE HERE: http://www.ecoexplore.net/about/
JOIN FOR FREE HERE: http://www.ecoexplore.net/join
SET OUT ON A KID FRIENDLY TRAIL AND EARN PRIZES! FREE!
If you haven’t heard of Kids in Parks or TRACK Trails yet, you’ve been missing out! TRACK Trails is a trail program that was started here in Asheville (but has since spread across the country!) by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, a network of local Pediatricians, and the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, to “promote children’s health and the health of our parks”, and we have several in our area. Kids in Parks is an ever expanding network of family-friendly, self-guided outdoor adventures, and “include hiking trails, biking trails, geocaching trails, paddling trails, nature trail disc golf courses, and even adventures you can do in your own back yard”. Register your child online, and as they complete the trail, they earn prizes for tracking their adventures! Best of all, it’s all FREE!
Jazz Hour at Pack (6th-12th Grade + Adults)
Join Steinway Pianist & Composer, Michael Jefry Stevens for a free jazz hour in Pack Library’s auditorium. Each month will bring a new round of musicians to join Michael Stevens in a free performance.
This month brings a tribute to the trio, Michael Stevens on piano, Zack Page on bass, and Rick Dilling on drums.
Program is sponsored by The Friends of the Library.