Compiled by SALLY ANN SHURMUR

Star-Tribune staff writer

This weekend's activity guide ranges from books and health to skiing, walking and dancing. There's plenty to do for everyone.

The Friends of the Library annual book sale begins at 9 a.m. at the Natrona County Public Library offers every kind of reading material imaginable, as well as auction treasures, games, puzzles, music and videos.

The sale runs until 5 p.m., today and continues daily through April 4. Sunday's hours are noon to 5 p.m.

The 2009 Blue Envelope Health Expo is free and runs from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Casper Events Center. There are zones to help you get active and eat well. Free screenings take place at the event for stroke, hearing, vision, skin, diabetes and breast, among others, and there is a new kidney screening and peripheral vascular screening.

Of particular timely interest, free gun locks will be available at the Natrona County Suicide Prevention Task Force booth, as long as they last.

And the Wyoming Medical Center is sponsoring an RX Roundup, a safe way to dispose of expired or unwanted medication. All prescription and over-the-counter medicine will be accepted including, but not limited to inhalers, ointments, and liquids.

NOWCAP Services sponsors the fifth annual Wyoming Disability Awareness Walk at 9 a.m. at the Eastridge Mall.

There is free food and awesome prizes for each pledge level achieved. Money raised will provide increased access to local recreational opportunities for people with disabilities.

Snowboarders and skiers are welcome to compete in the Casper City Challenge races at Hogadon today and Sunday.

Today is a two-run giant slalom race and Sunday is a two-run slalom race.

Sign up is from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Hogadon Lodge. Course inspection is from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. on Dreadnaught. The first run is at 10 a.m., followed by the second run at 11:30 a.m. Awards are scheduled for 1:30 p.m. in the lodge. Cost is $25 per day. Buddy Werner league athletes ski for free.

The Boy Scouts of America, River Bend District hosts the High Plains Shootout Fundraiser at Stuckenhoff Sports Shooters Complex from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. There are two events, the Prairie Shoot and the High Card Shoot. Cost is $10 youth and $15 adult per event.

The Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum will re-open with a Casper Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. The public is welcome. The facility has been closed since August for renovations and upgrades.

The main exhibit features Global War on Terror; survivor accounts of the Battle of Red Buttes in 1865; World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and the Cold War; USS Wyoming and the history of the Casper Army Air Base.

The museum is located on the grounds of the Natrona County International Airport at 3740 Jourgensen Ave. For more information, call 472-1857 or 251-1654.

"Classically Romantic" is the theme for this year's free spring concert presented by the Casper College Concert Band at 3 p.m. in Durham Hall in the Aley Fine Arts Center.

The concert also features the Casper College Brass Ensemble and the Casper College Flute Ensemble.

The 19th annual All-City ORFF concert is at 4 p.m. in the gym at Kelly Walsh High School. Admission is $1. Participants will include all Natrona County School District fifth- and sixth-grade general music students.

The German Stammtisch of Casper, which was founded in March 2003, will celebrate its sixth anniversary at 5:30 p.m. at the Isaac Walton Club House. All who have attended during the last six years are welcome. For more information, e-mail stammtisch@bresnan.net or call 265-3696.

The Wyoming Symphony's Buckaroo Ball is not your typical black tie fundraising affair and kicks off at the Fairgrounds Industrial Building at 6 p.m. Dress in your best western attire for an evening's worth of entertainment and fun, including a rousing auction. There will be entertainment all evening by Prickly Pair and the Cactus Chorale. Tickets are $100 per person.

The Vern and Rita Davis Show will play music from 7 to 10 p.m., at the Mills Senior Center, 401 Wasatch Ave., while construction continues at the Casper Senior Center.

Admission is $4; doors open at 6 p.m. No smoking, no alcohol. Free coffee and punch. Come to dance or just to listen.

Wyoming Equality celebrates a belated Mardi Gras with a dance at the Nineteenth Hole Restaurant and Lounge on the grounds of the Casper Municipal Golf Course. Festivities begin at 9 p.m. Cost for entrance is $5 for WE members, and $10 for nonmembers.

Wyoming Equality serves the Gay Lesbian, Bi-sexual, and Transgender Community. For more information on Wyoming Equality and/or directions to the dance, please call Bob Warburton at 265-4414.

On Sunday, the public is welcome to enjoy breakfast at the Casper Elks Lodge from 8 to 11 a.m. A full menu is served for $5 for anyone over 12 and children under 12 are free.

Silver and Gold (Seniors) of Christian Church of Casper, 8188 Zero Road is hosting a "Hymn Sing" at 4 p.m. on Sunday. Pastor James Shade will have a message. The public is welcome for good singing, the old hymns, good preaching, fine fellowship and finger food afterward. For information, call 234-56644 or 247-3020.

Friends of Della Works are invited to the unveiling of a French painting she won on a Caribbean cruise. Royal Caribbean's "Freedom of the Seas" is its largest cruise ship with 4,277 passengers. This is the second painting Della has won on a cruise. The unveiling is from 2 to 4 p.m., at her home, 3211 Glacier. Please RSVP to 234-8649.