Events and happenings around Carson City for Tuesday, Dec. 4

Good Day Carson City, it is Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. The winter weather continues today albeit without any storm watches or warnings this morning. Light snow showers will continue today and and pick up tonight with less than an inch possible. As always be careful out on the roads. You'll be able to warm up at a number of venues today, including a holiday swing party with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at Casino Fandango's new Grand Ballroom and at the Carson City School District Orchestra Program concert at the community center.

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Here's what's happening today:

— Tuesday Morning Walk to Riverview Park hosted by Muscle Powered. 9 a.m. Come and join us for our weekly one hour walks to enjoy Nevada outdoors around Carson City! Meet at the Korean Memorial parking area at the east end of 5th Street, 600 Marsh Road. Water and closed-toe shoes required. All walks are 1 to 2 miles with duration of 1 hour with usually negligible elevation gain, and frequently on paved or smooth paths. If it rains or snows, meet at the Multi-Purpose Athletic Center (MAC) at 1860 Russell Way. Contact Alyce Cloutier, klute89706@gmail.com or call 775-250-0282, if you have any questions.

— Open Studio Basic Painting at the Brewery Arts Center. 9 a.m. Students will work on their own paintings from subject matter they have chosen. The instructor, Mark Tompkins, will work one-on-one with each student to help them complete their project from start to finish. Each student must supply their own materials. Students may choose to paint in either water colors, oils, or acrylic paints. This is an open enrollment drop-in class, no need to sign-up. Tuition: $25 per session or $40 for the day. Classes: 9 a.m. to noon; or 1 to 4 p.m.; located in the Painting Studio, Brewery Arts Center, 449 W King Street.

— Holiday Craft Fair at the Carson Mall. The Carson Mall Craft Fair includes local crafts, toys, clothes, Santa and more! The Fair will run until Christmas Eve from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Santa and his elves will be joining the fair inside the Carson Mall for meet and greets and pictures on Saturdays and Sundays through December 23.

— The Brewery Arts Center is offering 5 days making thoughtful gifts and personalized gift wrap. Kids ages 8-15 make gifts for friends and family all wrapped and ready to go under the tree (or beside the menorah) by the last day. $110 per child (sibling discount $90 each) Minimum 10 kids M-F 3:30-5:00 Two sessions available, Instructor: Darla Bayer Dec 3-7 (Christmas and/or Chanukah) or Dec 17-21 (Christmas and/or generic) Each camp will make completely different gifts so your child may attend both camps. Registration available online here. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W King Street.

— Tuesday Evening Conditioning Hike to Lepire Trail hosted by Muscle Powered. 5:30 p.m. Join us for free hikes each week to enjoy Nevada outdoors! Meet at Moffat Open Space parking area on Hells Bells Road and Parkhill Drive. We will also walk on sidewalks through the neighborhood near the trail. All hikes start at 5:30 PM. For the winter, these hikes are moving onto paved paths in town and will be 3-5 miles long and with duration of about 1-1/2 hours. Water and sturdy boots or athletic shoes required. PLEASE BRING A FLASHLIGHT because it is dark on these walks.

— Families Talking Together class Dec. 4 in Dayton. 6 p.m. “Families Talking Together” offers parents insights about how to talk to their children about sex. Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey Counties is hosting a free event where parents can learn more. Free food and childcare are available during the event on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 6-8 p.m. at the Dayton Community Center, 170 Pike Street in Dayton. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

— CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER: Carson City Classic Cinema Club Presents "All Mine to Give" at BAC's Black Box Theatre. 6:30 p.m. Starring Cameron Mitchel and Glynis Johns the film is a portrait of an immigrant family on the Wisconsin frontier, circa 1865, where a young son must find homes for his siblings after the deaths of his parents. Based on a true story. General Admission $5; Senior/Student $3; Free to members. Trivia and discussion begin at 6:30 PM; Film begins at 7 p.m. For more about the Carson City Classic Cinema Club check out this interview on It's Your City.

— Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's holiday party at Carson City's Casino Fandango. 7 p.m. Presented by the Brewery Arts Center, the highly anticipated event will be the first concert at the casino’s new Grand Ballroom. Featuring a wide selection of Christmas classics and originals from the band’s two full-length holiday albums, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s “Wild and Swingin’ Holiday Party!” has become an annual favorite for fans of all ages. Expected highlights include fun arrangements of Jingle Bells, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, Winter Wonderland and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, as well as Chuck Berry’s Run, Run Rudolph, Lou Rawls’ Merry Christmas, Baby, and Elvis Presley’s Blue Christmas. The set list will also include original songs written by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy such as Rockabilly Christmas, Last Night (I Went Out with Santa Claus), Christmas in Tinsel Town and the reflective It Feels Like Christmas Time. The evening’s festivities will also include a silent auction presented by the Brewery Arts Center.

— Carson City School District Orchestras Holiday Concert. 7 p.m. The Carson City School District Orchestra Program performs the second of four school-year concerts for the general public on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018 at the Community Center with free admission. Under the direction of Dr. Brian Fox, the CCSD Orchestras is a blooming school music program in Carson City. Come to the Holiday Concert to hear Holiday favorites, as well as Mozart, Brahms, and music from Harry Potter. Starting at 6 p.m. there will be pre-show activities in the lobby, including a free photo booth and a Santa on-site, not to mention a silent auction. Students have been rehearsing since October and are ready to entertain. One evening only. The main concert begins at 7 p.m.

ONGOING:

— Tiffani and Bailee's 6th Sealed Toy Drive underway now through Dec. 9, drop off boxes throughout Carson City. Tiffani Barber was diagnosed with stage four brain cancer on Dec. 8, 2012. For those of you who didn't know Tiffani, all she ever wanted to do was help people. So it was no surprise to those closest to her that when the social worker assigned to her case asked her what she needed, Tiffani replied with, "How can I help?" There are multiple locations throughout the Carson City, Carson Valley and Reno area.

— From Carson City to Dayton: Be a Santa to a Senior. Now through Dec. 11, 2018 Home Instead Senior Care and Center for Healthy Aging have set up their trees, and placed the tags for our seniors. These are seniors, who are in homes, and have no one to celebrate the holidays with. Our community from Carson City to Dayton and in between have been absolutely wonderful by getting a tag, and filling the wishes for our Seniors here. There are trees set up at Dayton Smith's, Paradise Salon, Les Schwab and United Federal Credit Union (off of Topsy), and AAA. For more information you can go to www.beasantatoasenior.com Thank you so much for your time, your love and giving heart.

— Scoup's Ice Cream and Soup Bar 12 Days of Christmas, now through Dec. 21. Scoup's Ice Cream and Soup Bar has purchased 12 gifts from some of our local businesses, each one to be gifted to 12 lucky individuals. Items to be gifted come from Rocking And Rolling, Artsy Fartsy Art Gallery, The Purple Avocado, Gather, The Bike Smith, Touched by an Angel, Carson City Culture and Tourism Authority, Carson Jewelry and Loan, Rustically Divine, and Kaleidoscope. Drawing tickets will be given to our customers with each purchase. The drawing will continue as long as we have tickets (7,654 tickets) or until Dec. 21, at closing, one day prior to the last drawing. Anytime you purchase a menu item from Scoup's Ice Cream and Soup Bar, you will receive a drawing ticket! Drawings will begin on Dec. 11. Come by the shop and view the amazing gifts from local businesses. As an added bonus, on Dec. 1, anyone who takes part of and is wearing a wine walk wrist band will receive a single drawing ticket. Those who take part in the Holiday Crawl and are wearing the wrist band will receive two tickets.

— Toys for Tots Carson City and surrounding counties offers hotline for toys. Toys for Tots will be offering gifts to families in Carson City, Douglas, Storey and Lyon counties for Christmas. The hotline is available today and runs through Dec. 21, 2018. Call in times are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call Ron Wood Family Resource Center: 884-2269. ENGLISH Speaking families call - (775) 800-3123. SPANISH speaking families call - (775) 800-3583.

— Christmas tree permits available on Carson, Bridgeport ranger districts. Permits to cut Christmas trees on the Carson and Bridgeport Ranger Districts of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest will be available for purchase now through Dec. 25. The U.S. Forest Service Christmas Tree Program is designed for families, businesses, and institutions wishing to cut their own trees for decorating. Christmas tree permits must be purchased in person and are issued on a first-come, first-serve basis for $10 each, with a limit of two trees per household. Permits are nonrefundable and nontransferable, and only valid through Dec. 25, 2018. The Ranger Districts have a limited amount of Christmas tree permits available, and once those allotted permits are sold, no more will be available.

— Carson City Parks, Recreation and Open Space is currently seeking individuals and pairs interested in leading interpretive programs in one of our many parks and open spaces. Interested individuals and pairs are encouraged to apply. If interested, go here.

— The Capital City Arts Initiative presents its exhibition, Americana with Cadmium Orange, by artist Gig Depio at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Depio is an artist and an advocate for public art in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was awarded the 2016 Fellowship Grant in Painting by the Nevada Arts Council (NAC). He has worked on various exhibitions and projects with the Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada Arts Council’s OXS Gallery, and UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum, among others. Depio graduated from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. He lives in Las Vegas with his family. Carson City Courthouse Gallery, 885 E. Musser Street in Carson City.

— Meals on Wheels Carson City will be participating in the 2018 Subaru Share the Love Event as a member of Meals on Wheels America, one of four national Share the Love charitable partners supported through the promotion. From Nov. 15 through Jan. 2, 2019, Subaru of America will donate $250 for every new Subaru vehicle sold or leased to the customer's choice of participating charities.
For more information on Meals on Wheels Carson City, email Courtney Warner at CWarner@carson.org, or call the Center at (775) 883-0703. The Carson City Senior Center is located at 911 Beverly Drive in Carson City. Visit www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org/sharethelove for more information on Subaru Share the Love event.

This calendar is updated throughout the day as information becomes available.