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Discovery Center gets creepy crawly for kids on Saturday, Oct. 30

Discovery Center gets creepy crawly for kids on Saturday, Oct. 30

From the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center & Museum:

Celebrate Halloween with a day dedicated to creepy crawly bugs and bats on Saturday, October 30th from 10am to 3pm at Columbia Gorge Discovery Center.

This event is geared toward kids and is free for all kids who arrive in costume. Adults and kids without costumes pay regular museum admission. Pacific Northwest entomologist Maggie Freeman will be providing lots of fun educational materials including a bug collection of large native moths, butterflies, beetles, cicadas, bumblebees, grasshoppers, dragonflies and LIVE Madagascar hissing cockroaches.

Bug scavenger hunts will also be going on throughout the museum. No RSVP or tickets are required. More information is available at gorgediscovery.org or 541-296-8600. This event is indoors and masks will be required per the Oregon Health Authority. The Columbia Gorge Discovery Center is located at 5000 Discovery Drive, The Dalles, OR.




Wasco County sees rise in property taxes; Bills to be mailed by Oct. 25.

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Students to get hit with a Roundhouse... Grant, that is, for tools at CGCC Skill Center

Students to get hit with a Roundhouse... Grant, that is, for tools at CGCC Skill Center

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