By CRISTINA JANNEY
Hays Post

Tickets are now on sale for the 2018 Sternberg Museum of Natural History Spring Gala, which will be 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday, April 7, at the museum.

Tickets are $100 each and include live entertainment, dinner and two drink tickets. The museum is also offering group packages for larger donor levels.

This year’s theme will be an island theme. Attendees are encouraged to wear cocktail or island attire, and margaritas will be served.

The entertainment this year will be a trop rock band named Breezeway from Omaha, Neb. They will playing some Jimmy Buffett tunes along with other island music.

All proceeds will benefit a fund that will be used by the Sternberg to create traveling exhibits.

“We are hoping to build small traveling exhibits that we can premier here and that we can send out to the state and the region to libraries, to schools, to public spaces, spreading science education to the state and the region and broadening our footprint,” said Laura Wilson, PhD.

The first traveling exhibit the museum would like to construct would be on the state symbols of Kansas. It would include information on the state flower, state reptile, state fossil and emphasize the natural history of Kansas.

The museum hopes to raise between $5,000 to $10,000 for the project through the gala this spring.

Tickets can be purchased at the museum, requested by mail by sending a check to the museum at 3000 Sternberg Drive, Hays, KS 67601 or online at https://webapps.fhsu.edu/sternberggala/ . Only 150 tickets will be available. To receive printed tickets via mail, please RSVP by March 5.

For more information, contact Laura Wilson at 785-639-6192 or at [email protected].