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New exhibits will be on display when the Nez Perce National Historical Park’s Spalding Visitor Center reopens Friday near Lapwai after an extended closure for remodeling.

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We’ve got some good variety in this week’s list plucked from the inland360.com calendar, including a long-awaited grand reopening and a new Pride event.

New exhibits will be on display when the Nez Perce National Historical Park’s Spalding Visitor Center reopens Friday near Lapwai after an extended closure for remodeling. A grand reopening celebration, with drumming and refreshments, is set for 10 a.m. at the park 12 miles east of Lewiston, 39063 U.S. Highway 95. Chairpersons for the Nez Perce Tribe, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation are expected to speak, along with a representative from the National Park Service.
The remodel, nearly 10 years in the making, replaces exhibits on display since the visitor center opened 40 years ago, according to a park news release. “The new exhibits not only explore Nimíipuu history from a time immemorial perspective, but also look at how that history connects to the present and informs the future for all of us,” the park’s superintendent, Steve Thede, said in the news release. More information is at nps.gov/nepe.
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Children can navigate a bike safety course, explore emergency vehicles and pick up a free helmet this weekend during the 18th annual Officer Newbill Kids Safety Fair at the Eastside Marketplace, 1420 S. Blaine, Moscow. The free event, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, also includes safety resources for kids and families, car seat safety checks by certified technicians and prescription drug take back. Officer Lee Newbill, of the Moscow Police Department, was killed in the line of duty May 19, 2007.
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Pullman gets colorful Saturday, kicking off Pride Month with a new, citywide event that includes activities at participating businesses from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pullman Pride festivities include music by DJ Goldfinger from 10 a.m to 1 p.m. at Market Square, 105 W. Main; a march through downtown at 11 a.m. with the Moscow Peace Band; and an afterparty for those 21 and older at 9 p.m. at Etsi Bravo, 215 E. Main. More information is at pullmanpride.com.
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University of Idaho research scientist Tracey Lee Peters will help make complicated concepts easier to digest Wednesday during the latest Science on Tap talk at Moscow Brewing Company, 630 N. Almon St. Peters’ presentation, from 6-6:45 p.m., is titled “Sneaky Viruses: Prophage and Tailocins in Bacteria.” In it, she’ll describe how bacterial genomes contain many elements from old viral infections and how these genes can activate and kill the bacteria, or be used as a weapon to kill bacteria from other strains or species. (That’s according to a Science on Tap news release. We’d have to attend the talk to explain what it means. See you there?)