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Adelynn Meenan, 6, of Moscow, plays with a hula hoop while her father, Sean, and 4-year-old brother, Braeden, right, watch with a smile during the 2022 Moscow Hemp Fest at East City Park. This year’s Hemp Fest is on Saturday.
Crazy Love, an Idaho Falls-based singer-songwriter duo, brings its Idaho Originals project to the Lewiston City Library, 411 D St., at 6 p.m. today for a free concert.
Heather Platts and Bruce Michael Miller perform eight original songs about Idaho and share the story behind each one during the show that also includes a slideshow of works by Idaho artists who were inspired by the songs.
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Revelers can enjoy live music, shop craft and food vendors, and sign a petition for legalizing medical marijuana from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday during Moscow Hemp Fest at East City Park, 900 E. Third St.
The 28th annual all-ages celebration brings cello and percussion duo GaeaSoulMusic to the stage to open and close the festivities, with a blend of perennial and nascent area bands performing throughout the day, including The Will Fontaine Band, Double Wide Surprise, The Boneless Boys, The Pond, Zone and The Hurricane Surfers. Admission is free; the full music schedule is at moscowhempfest.com.
Activists Serra Frank, of Legalize Idaho; Mary Jane Oatman, of the Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association; and Jackee Winters, of Boise-based Kind Idaho will discuss the cannabis movement, and more than 40 vendors will sell items including hemp jewelry, rocks and crystals, works by local artists and tie-dye clothing.
Food vendors The Battleground Food Truck, SushiMan, Mariana’s Tamales, The Smoke Ring, Pho:20 Cafe and Henry’s Lumpia will be on hand, with mini doughnuts, cotton candy, coffee and lemonade drinks for sale as well.
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The winner of the quilt in the Palouse Patchers’ raffle will be drawn Sunday afternoon.
The show, themed “Around the World,” is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Daily admission is $5, or $3 for seniors and children, by cash or Venmo.
Tickets for the show’s queen-sized raffle quilt, done in pastels in the “Trip Around the World” block style, will be available for $1, with the winner (who need not be present) drawn Sunday afternoon.
Attendees can purchase fabrics, patterns and quilting and craft items from more than half a dozen vendors and quilted and handmade gifts from Palouse Patchers members. A scissors- and knife-sharpening service will be available as well.
More information is at palousepatchers.org.
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Pizza boxes stained with grease or sporting a bit of cheese residue can’t be recycled, but the Associated Students of Washington State University, together with local nonprofit The Phoenix Conservancy, are offering another planet-friendly option for disposing of them this Earth Month.
The Pizza for the Planet project converts used pizza boxes into biochar, a sustainable soil additive. Pizza lovers can drop soiled boxes in a specially marked dumpster at Ruby Street Park, 605 NE Colorado St., Pullman. Box collection continues through April 22, when the program culminates with a 4 p.m. Earth Day gathering, including a demonstration of the biochar process.
