What a super fundraiser! Absolutely no effort!

Just connect to your favorite stores for online shopping through ShopforMuseums.com, and some of the money comes to the Gold Nugget Museum.

Check out the website and see the more than 500 stores at which you can shop.  Then go for it! The holiday season should reap great profits for us!

The Museum gift shop is loaded with all kinds of really cool Paradise souvenirs, along with many toys and gemstones for the kids. 

The bookshelves are stacked with new releases of Paradise history, The Gold Rush, American Indian stories, children's history , western recipes and Table Mountain wildflower books.

We also have delicious apple butter, along with healthy Miner's tea and Wild Sage Mint Tea.  Bring your guests to the Museum and shop at our gift store.  Remember your ten percent member discount. Come in and support the museum. 

The 2008 Paradise Pow Wow will take place on the Museum grounds the weekend of August 23-24, with activities from noon to 5:00 p.m. each day.  Admission is free.

In addition to drumming, dancing and singing, the Pow Wow features Indian Tacos and other food, raffles and vendor booths.  No smoking, alcohol, drugs or pets are allowed.

The Pow Wow benefits the Katie Marie Prosser Memorial Scholarship to promote education of Native American youth.

Speaker Series Resumes August 9, 23, & 30. The first August presentation of Speaking of the Past  at the depot will be August 9, with George Barber, PID manager giving a talk on the Paradise Irrigation District. 

The second speaker will be August 23. Arlene Ward, chairman of the Mechoopda Maidu, will give a presentation on the area Maidu.  The program follows the first day of the Paradise Pow Wow being held on the grounds of the Gold Nugget Museum.

August 30, Chuck Rough, town manager, will complete the series with a presentation on the Gold Rush in Butte County.

The community is iinvited to bring their families and picnic dinners to enjoy in the park before the program - and to visit the Depot Museum.

The big-screen presentations are displayed from the depot platform, with the audience sitting on the grass in the park.  It's a great way to spend a summer evening with family, freinds and a picnic.

The Depot Museum will be open to visitors.  Water and soft drinks will be available for purchase.