The Cidery is also hosting their Annual Madison County Sheriff’s K-9 Fundraiser on Saturday, August 4th. Enjoy locally made hard cider, food by Up in Smoke! and the music of iNFUZiON, a Des Moines power trio comprised of Kevin McGinnis, Greg Cloe and Mark Owen. iNFUZiON plays a wide variety of songs – everything from Tom Petty, to Van Morrison, Kenny Rogers, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Waylon & Willie, CCR, The Kinks, The Meters, The Grateful Dead, and the list goes on and on. Up in Smoke will begin serving at 5:30 and there is $5 cover charge. A percentage of proceeds on Saturday will go to the Madison County Sheriff’s K-9 program.

The Madison County Chamber of Commerce and the Winterset Parks & Recreation Department present the final First Friday Concert Series event at City Park, sponsored by Fareway Food Stores on Friday, August 3rd. The featured band is Work Day Cure, sponsored by Bridges Financial Associates, Inc. Hot food will be available for sale, as well as popcorn, beer, soft drinks and bottled water beginning at 6:00 pm. The music begins at 7:00 pm. Bring the whole family for this outdoor event, and don’t forget lawn chairs and blankets!

This weekend is the Iowa’s tax-free holiday so it’s a great time to shop for school supplies and back-to-school clothes for those kids who seem to have grown 8 inches in the past 8 weeks! It’s also a great time to support some of our sponsors and let them know how much you appreciate them for helping to provide The Winterset Citizen!

• Village Bootery has shoes for the whole family (even if your kids haven’t had shoes on for the whole summer!) and summer clearance specials.
• Ben Franklin has EVERYTHING you need to fill those back packs. Plus, they have school supply lists at the store so you don’t even have to hunt for the May issue of The Beacon AND, you can find a coupon in the back of this week’s Shopper good for 20% off all school supplies.
• Montross Pharmacy has the obvious pharmacy supplies (like some Aspirin for those late-August headaches when everyone has just about had enough of each other) and is also a great place to find gifts for teachers!
• And if after all that, you find that you’re in need of a little something for yourself, we suggest a trip to Angel Wings & CT or Pine Creek, LTD for a little retail therapy. Finding yourself something dazzling to wear or a snazzy new piece for your home is sure to be a pick-me-up after the exhaustion of back-to-school shopping!

Check out Hinterland Music Festival this weekend at the Avenue of the Saints Amphitheater in St. Charles.  The festival is two days of music curated for all who love both music and the outdoors. The annual festival features music, camping, art, crafts, family engagement and more. Their Facebook page has the line up, lots of information and helpful hints.

It’s been three years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment. Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles. When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom kicks off with an intense and memorable opening sequence and wastes no time at all before taking us back to Isla Nublar. There, a combination of an exploding volcano and rampaging dinosaurs results in an edge of your seat action spectacle which will keep you glued to the screen from start to finish and it’s at The Iowa this weekend!