Potawatomi Park Plans Several Outdoor Events
DI Presents Rock The Park
The Bourbon Destination Imagination team is hoping to “Rock the Park” for a good cause.
The DI team will host a fundraiser featuring several local musical acts – including Quentin Flagg – in a free-will donation show to help Potawatomi Park in Tippecanoe put new limestone on the parking lot at the park’s new pavilion parking lot.
“One of our team’s board members also works for the park and said this would be a project that we could do,” said Brenden Damron. “They need around $4,200 to cover the drive so we hope we can get as many people out as possible.”
The concert will be at Potawatomi Wildlife Park in Tippecanoe from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 8, and is free to the public, however any donation toward the project is greatly appreciated.
Meteor Shower
The good news is that the popular annual Perseid Meteor Shower is coming up. That bad news is it peaks during the week between Aug 10-13 and if that wasn’t bad enough, it also follows the full moon so viewing will be dismal. Therefore, no pubic viewing program is planned at Potawatomi Wildlife Park this year.
The upcoming Perseid meteor shower produces more bright meteors than any other annual shower. During the peak of the Perseids, stargazers under dark skies could see more than 80 meteors per hour.
The dust particles that create Perseid meteors were born in the comet known as 109P/Swift-Tuttle. This object orbits our Sun once every 130 years; it last returned to the inner solar system in 1992.
Perseid meteors will appear to “rain” into the atmosphere from the constellation Perseus, which rises in the northeast around 11 p.m..
Observers can usually enjoy meteors on late evenings for several days before and after the Aug. 10-13 peak but viewing in 2014 was not meant to be.
Music In The Park: Sentimental Journey Band
The Sentimental Journey Band will hosts a show at Potawatomi Wildlife Park at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 17, at Bessinger Pavilion. The cost to attend is a free-will donation to the park, which is located at 16998 SR 331.
Potawatomi Wildlife Park invites you to come and enjoy the music of the Sentimental Journey Band. They will be playing some of your favorite songs surrounded by prairie and wildflowers, a great way to relax on a Sunday evening. Bring your lawn chairs or sit at a picnic table and make new friends. Refreshments will be available.
For questions, call 574-498-6550 or email [email protected].