* Every June, Ellensburg hosts Dachshunds on Parade, an event that draws Dachshund dog owners from all over the Northwest.

* Ellensburg hosts the annual Jazz in the Valley music festival on the last weekend in July.

Ellensburg is a city in, and the county seat of, Kittitas County, Washington, United States.

Ellensburg is located just east of the Cascade Range on Interstate 90 and is known as the most centrally located city in the state.

Downtown Ellensburg has many historic buildings, many of which were constructed in the late 19th century.

The state legislature selected Ellensburg as the location for the then Normal School as a consolation prize.

Ellensburg was officially incorporated on November 26, 1883.

There were several early newspapers in Ellensburg.

Concerns over the state of Ellensburg's historic downtown led to the formation of the Ellensburg Downtown Association to work on revitalizing the area.

* The Kittitas County Farmers Market is held every Saturday from May to October in the heart of downtown Ellensburg.

* Ellensburg is a stop on the PRCA professional rodeo circuit, occurring each year on Labor Day weekend.

The Ellensburg Rodeo has been a town tradition since 1923, and is the largest rodeo in Washington state.

The City of Ellensburg uses the Manager / Council form of government with a City Manager hired by the City Council.

On the state legislative level, Ellensburg is in the 13th district.

On the congressional level, Ellensburg is located in Washington's 4th congressional district and is represented by Republican Doc Hastings, but it is expected to be moved into Washington's 8th congressional district for the 2012 general election and beyond.

Ellensburg leans toward supporting Democrats, giving then-Senator Barack Obama of Illinois 56. 3 percent of its total vote in the 2008 presidential election to 41. 5 percent for his Republican rival, Senator John McCain of Arizona.

In both 2008 and 2010, Ellensburg was just slightly more Republican than the statewide average, making it one of the most Democratic cities in Eastern Washington.

Public schools are operated by Ellensburg School District 401.

The district includes one high school ( Ellensburg High School ), one middle school, and three elementary schools.

" Images of America: Ellensburg ," Arcadia Press, San Francisco, 2009.

The Lewiston Round Up is a member of the Big 4 or Big Money 4 ( along with Pendleton Round-up, Walla Walla Fair and Rodeo and Ellensburg Rodeo ) and a top 50 PRCA rodeo.

The river flows through that town, skirts Ellensburg, passes the city of Yakima, and continues southeast to Richland, where it flows into the Columbia River at an elevation of.

Maize Mirchi, the co-ed a cappella group from the University of Michigan hosts " Sa Re Ga Ma Pella ", an annual South Asian a cappella invitational with various groups from the Midwest.

* Sly Fox Brewery ( Phoenixville, PA ) hosts an annual goat race to commemorate its bock fest.

The South Side hosts one of the city's largest parades, the annual African American Bud Billiken Day parade.

The park also hosts the annual Taste of Chicago festival.

Instead, they subscribe to a service for a monthly or annual fee with a service provider that hosts the call centre telephony equipment in their own data centre.

In addition, the Dayton Amateur Radio Association hosts the annual Dayton Hamvention, North America's largest hamfest, at Hara Arena.

The city hosts the annual Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival, attracting regional and international jazz, blues, rock, and world artists.

The city also hosts an annual track and field meet at the Flanders Sports Arena: the Indoor Flanders meeting.

It hosts annual events such as the 5-Class Competition, Friday Nooners, Wednesday Nighters, Frosh / Soph Games, and the Thomas-Garrett Affair.

The town hosts the annual Common Riding, which combines the annual riding of the boundaries of the town's common land with the commemoration of a victory of local youths over an English raiding party in 1514.

Keszthely is the site of the Festetics Palace and Balatonfüred is a historical bathing town which hosts the annual Anna Ball.

Whitstable, Kent, hosts a good example of more traditional May Day festivities, where the Jack in the Green festival was revived in 1976 and continues to lead an annual procession of morris dancers through the town on the May Bank Holiday.

* hosts the largest annual conferences on Mars exploration in the United States, Europe and Australia

It hosts frequent gigs, an anarchistic library, vernissages, exhibitions, annual birthday festival ( each October ), poetry evenings and graffiti festivals.

It hosts an annual convention.

The park hosts an annual international tennis tournament in the summer, the Rosmalen Grass Court Championships.

In addition to this, in hopes of expanding tourism, the country hosts its annual St. Kitts Music Festival.

The village of Perranporth (' Porthpyran ' in Cornish ) hosts the annual inter-Celtic festival of ' Lowender Peran ', which is also named in honour of him.

Each northern summer, the park hosts the annual, week-long Robin Hood Festival.

Teaching organizations include the European Board of Urology, as well as the Vattikuti Urology Institute in Detroit, which also hosts an annual International Robotic Urology Symposium devoted to new technologies.

The Order hosts an annual gathering known as the " Roost ".

Founded at a conference in 1961 in Salzburg, Austria, that was attended by Othmar Anderlie, Pitirim Sorokin, and Arnold Toynbee, this is an international association of scholars that publishes a journal, Comparative Civilization Review, and hosts an annual meeting in cities around the world.