CITY OFFICES ADJUSTING SCHEDULES FOR UPCOMING JUNETEENTH FREEDOM HOLIDAY
RAPID CITY, SD—City administrative offices will be closed next Thursday, June 19 in observance of Juneteenth Freedom Day.
The Rapid City Landfill will be closed as part of the holiday observance. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday trash collections on City routes will be picked up one day early next week with Monday and Friday routes operating on a normal schedule, leave out until collected.
Rapid Transit Services, including RapidRide and Dial-A-Ride services, will not be operating Thursday, June 19 in observance of the national holiday. The Rapid City Public Library will be closed for the holiday. The Monument’s administrative offices will be closed but the venue will be open for scheduled events.
The Roosevelt Swim Center will operate regular hours from 5:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. with open swim scheduled on the holiday from 3:30-8:45 p.m. The outdoor swimming pools at Horace Mann, Parkview and Jimmy Hilton at Sioux Park will be open from noon to 6 p.m. The Roosevelt Swim Center’s 50-meter outdoor pool will be open on the holiday from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The Rapid City Airport will be open with administrative offices closed. Rapid City Police and Fire Departments will be operating on normal shift schedules with administrative offices closed.
Juneteenth commemorates and observes the official end of slavery in the United States, when three months after the Civil War ended and two and a half years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, word of freedom finally reached enslaved people in Texas.
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