🌱 Kiski Area South Primary Color Run 2026 and 10 more events

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Coming up on the calendar:

• Discover Medicare at Community Library of Allegheny Valley
• Kiski Area South Primary Color Run 2026 at Elbert N. Kunkle Park
• Purcellville Music and Arts Festival

... and check out 1 more event on the calendar!

Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: Warm with clouds and sun, with a high of 77 and low of 53 degrees.
• Saturday: A heavy t-storm in the p.m., temps: high: 84, low: 44.
• Sunday: An a.m. shower; windy, cooler, with a high of 52 and low of 35 degrees.

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🗓 Upcoming Events in East Vandergrift

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday April 18

• Discover Medicare
  Community Library of Allegheny Valley, 1522 Broadview Blvd, Natrona Heights
  9:30 am

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Other local events

Saturday April 18

• Kiski Area South Primary Color Run 2026
  Elbert N. Kunkle Park , 285 Pine Run Church Road. , Apollo
  1:00 pm

Saturday April 25

• Purcellville Music and Arts Festival
  250 S. Nursery Ave. , Purcellville
  12:00 pm

Monday May 4

• Star Wars Sk8
  VALarena Sk8Land , 320 18th St , North Apollo
  6:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday April 17

• Wonderland High Tea
  Piccola Stella , 11 S Market St , Elizabethtown
  6:00 pm
• Tell-Tale Steampunk Festival--We are all mad here!
  Wyndham Garden York , 2000 Loucks Rd , York
  6:30 pm
• Brianna Blankenship @ Salina Inn
  Salina Inn , 378 Larimer Rd , Salina
  7:00 pm

Saturday April 18

• Trout Fishing In America @ Appell Center for the Performing Arts
  Appell Center for the Performing Arts , 50 N George St , York
  11:00 am
• Third Saturdays with Amy Peck — The King George Speakeasy
  King George Speakeasy , Lower Level of Tutoni's , 108 N George St , York
  8:00 pm

Sunday April 19

• Smoke on the Susquehanna — M.A.D.S Enterprises
  John Wright Restaurant , 234 N Front St , Wrightsville
  10:00 am
• Creating a Charcuterie Board Class
  Shear Heaven Farm , 3841 Trout Run Rd , York
  2:00 pm

Tuesday April 21

• Kiski School Varsity Baseball @ Leechburg
  215 1st St , Leechburg
  7:45 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Mistras Group posted a job opening for Quality Manager in New Kensington. Apply here.
• Keurig Dr Pepper posted a job opening for Merchandiser Stocker in Delmont. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near East Vandergrift here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Apollo

• Giant nuclear waste dump in Armstrong County set to be dug up (wsgw.com)

New Kensington

• Harrison family creates community rock garden to memorialize 3-year-old daughter (triblive.com)
• Southpaw FLHC's New Album "The Standard" Due In July, "Rolling Stone" Video And Summer Tour Revealed (theprp.com)
• 11 music shops we love for Record Store Day and beyond (nextpittsburgh.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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