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Staff Report

Tuesday, September 5th, 2023

Buy Tickets

Be transported to Las Vegas at our fun-filled casino night! Try your luck at a variety of live action game tables like blackjack, craps, roulette, and Texas hold 'em. When you win, you earn tickets that you can enter as chances at our fabulous prizes. Enjoy live music, refreshing beverages, and tasty treats from our food stations all evening. And, most of all, come to play. We promise that what happens at Chehaw, stays at Chehaw!

Your $75 ticket provides admission for one at the event with food stations, a drink ticket for signature cocktails, beer, and wine at our cash bar, $2500 casino bucks (play money), live music, and raffle at the end of the night! 

What are the Casino Bucks (play money)? When you arrive at Creekside and check-in, you will receive a voucher for your "casino bucks" for each individual ticket purchased. You will take this voucher to a dealer and receive chips to gamble with throughout the night. At the end of the evening, your dealer will cash out your winnings into tickets. These raffle tickets can be placed into any of the three grand prize boxes. 

Don't worry, if you run out of play money we have a buy back in option. You can purchase an additional $2500 casino bucks voucher for $10 at the bank.

Proceeds from this event directly benefit our beloved Chehaw Park and Zoo, thank you for supporting this wonderful cause!

Boo at the Zoo

Join us for a not-so-spooky Halloween event in the Zoo from 10-2, Oct. 28! The event $15 for adults and $10 for children and also includes Park & Zoo admission. Event is free for members of Chehaw, the Flint RiverQuarium, or Thronateeska!

We'll have Halloween themed fun for all ages! Lots of fun Halloween themed games and activities, special Halloween animal enrichment, tons of fun prizes, and candy! 

FEEDINGS & PROGRAMS
EVERY WEEKEND

Saturday & Sunday
10:30 Petting Zoo Feeding ($3/person)
11:30 Rhino Feeding
1:30 Sulcata Tortoise Feeding ($3/person)
2:30 Alligator Feeding ($10/Souvenir Feed Cup)

We are happy to announce Chehaw, along with Artesian Alliance partners Thronateeska Heritage Center and Flint RiverQuarium, is participating in the Blue Star Museums program this summer. The program provides free admission to our nation’s active-duty military personnel and their families from Armed Forces Day (May 20) through Labor Day (September 4). 

The free admission program is available for those currently serving in the United States Military - Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard as well as Active Duty and Reservists, National Guardsman (regardless of status), U.S. Public Health Commissioned Corps, NOAA Commissioned Corps, and up to five family members. Qualified members must show a Geneva Convention common access card (CAC), or DD Form 1173 ID card (dependent ID), or a DD Form 1173-1 ID card for entrance into a participating Blue Star Museum. Visit arts.gov/bluestarmuseums for a 3:30 Wildlife Theater Presentation.

OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS
Park Authority Monthly Meeting (Creekside) 6 p.m.

Oct. 16, Dec. 18