REGIONAL NOTES
LAKEWOOD
30th annual harvest festival on tap
The 30th annual Cider Days Harvest Festival on Saturday and Sunday celebrates the season with an apple bake-off, cider pressing, children’s activities, traditional craft demonstrations, a vintage tractor pull, food and entertainment.
Events run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at Lakewood’s Heritage Center, 801 S. Yarrow St. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 and younger. All proceeds support educational programs at the Heritage Center. For more information, call 303-987-7850.
AURORA
Conservation center seeking aides
The Plains Conservation Center, in southeast Aurora, is seeking citizen scientists to help collect data and volunteers to track rattlesnakes, tend to the habitat garden or be a Saturday assistant.
The center needs citizen scientists on the first Saturday of each month to collect data on the critters and plants at the center. Training is available.
For more information or to volunteer to be a citizen scientist, call Fran at 303-693-3621.
Volunteers also are needed to help at the center on Saturdays, do curatorial work such as data entry or develop specimen lists. Assistants are needed to help track prairie rattlesnakes in the field. Heirloom or habitat garden assistants are needed to help plant, turn and water and weed the garden. For more information, call Mary Ann at 303-693-3621.
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