East Alabama Children’s Choir to hold Spring Concert

This month, True Deliverance Holiness Church will host ‘A Healthier Lifestyle for a Healthier You: A Salute to Our Men,’ a health workshop specifically geared toward men of the minority and larger communities.

The Auburn University Singers will present the opening performance of their 2008 annual Spring Show on Saturday, April 26, at 3:30 p.m in AU’s Telfair Peet Theater. Other performances are
scheduled for Sunday, April 27, at 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. and Tuesday, April 29, at 5:45 p.m. and 8:15 p.m.

Author and radio personality Garrison Keillor brings his seat-of-the-pants style of storytelling to the Opelika Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday to a sold-out crowd.

Children’s book author visits Auburn school

The national tour of “A Year With Frog and Toad,” an IntraMusic Theatricals production and part of The Arts Association of East Alabama 2007-2008 Adventure Series for school-age audiences, opened Wednesday at the Opelika Center for the Performing Arts.

Two nationally known and locally grown musicians, Ernie Rowell and Harlan Burton, will perform in a Benefit Concert for their friend Joel Grantham, a local radio personality.

While Burton’s upcoming concert schedule lists concert dates across the Southeast, the one listed for Saturday, April 12, is a benefit singing for Joel Grantham, former DJ with the Kicker (WKKR) and WJHO, featuring Ernie Rowell and Harlan Burton at 6:30 p.m. at Central Baptist Church, 1611 Second Ave., Opelika.

The March of Dimes will hold its “March for Babies” April 19 at Municipal Park in Opelika.

Arron/Kawasaki/Park Trio to perform in Auburn

Thursday night third- through fifth-graders got a “hop” on the Easter festivities at Opelika’s “Flashlight Egg Hunt” at Moore Stadium. During the event, the Easter Chicken, Bunny and Egg got in some dancing before Opelika Parks and Recreation kicked of the eighth annual evening egg hunt Thursday. Then armed with flashlights and Easter baskets, children searched for treasure. 

This weekend the Auburn Parks and Recreation Department along with Wachovia Bank will host the Annual Easter Egg Hunt at Kiesel Park.

The Opelika Parks and Recreation Department is sponsoring two days of activities to help the community celebrate Easter.

Girl Scouts isn’t just about the cookies.

Whoever said that there is strength in numbers had it right. Their ranks started out with less than 50 members, but this weekend, they will lift their nearly 140 collective voices in praise to God.

From Chef John Hamme at Ariccia Trattoria and Bar

Chef John Hamme gets shares his expertise

“Helping Auburn Preschoolers - Intervening Early” or the H.A.P.I.E. program is accepting applications for the 2008-2009 school year.

Alabama’s investment in its children is important to the state’s homeland security future, according to the state’s director of Homeland Security.

Pre-registration is under way for the inaugural Two by Two Unity Run 5K and 1-mile event sponsored by Envision Opelika to be held March 29.

Two local students were recognized by members of the Alabama Society Daughters of the American Revolution during the 110th State Conference awards luncheon Tuesday at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center. ASDAR members honored Christopher Parsons, a student at Drake Middle School in Auburn, and Alicia Peralto, a student at West Forest Elementary School in Opelika.

“We clean, rain or shine,” said Shirley Flora, director of Keep Opelika Beautiful. However, the weather condition Flora should have probably added to that list was snow.

They’re complex flying machines with propellers, wing flaps and engines that make lots of noise.

The ladies of Delta Zeta sorority at Auburn University are proud to show that stepping has nothing to do with skin color.

“Guys and Dolls” is love stories wrapped around gangsters and set in New York. At least that’s the way Revel Gholston, the director of the Theatre Department at Opelika High School, describes his newest production, “Guys and Dolls.”

Visitors to the “Spring Supper Concert” will be treated to music ranging from “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” to smooth jazz by the Auburn school system bands Saturday.

This weekend the WeHelp Coalition of Churches for Habitat for Humanity will hold a Pancake Breakfast at Applebee’s to raise funds to construct another Habitat House.

Hundreds turned out to browse for bargains at the annual yard sale benefitting the Opelika-Auburn News’ Newspapers in Education (NIE) Program Saturday.

While it was a lot of fun, you might say it was a mission they scrambled to get off the ground.

Philip O. Tyler and Greg Smith, both members of Auburn United Methodist Church, have combined their professions and their passions to do the will of Christ in helping members of the community work through just that kind of situation with pre-divorce mediation.

Master Kente weaver comes to AU museum