So What Are You Doing This Weekend?

You weren't planning to spend your Friday night laying on the couch and watching TV, were you? Noooooo! You should start that weekend off with a bang by doing a little dancing in the street! Free entertainment, courtesy of Piedmont HealthCare. The band too MUCH Sylvia will be performing. Bring chairs; no pets or coolers are allowed. Beverages and food will be available for purchase.

And guess who else plans to be there? Three of our fabulous balloon pilots and their balloons (weather permitting, of course.) Bring your cameras and take some beautiful pictures. You can meet Sam Parks (our Balloonmeister. Want to know what that is? Ask him!); Marc Klinger (seen in Carl White's "Life in the Carolinas" segment. Check it out on the Carolina BalloonFest website.); and one of the premier female balloon pilots in the country, Marsha Treacy. Ask Marsha what it's like to pilot a balloon at the Super Bowl or for the Wizard of Oz's 75th anniversary (yes, she met Munchkins!) This time she'll be representing the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life, our premier charity organization this year.

Notice, too, all those beautiful teal ribbons all over downtown. They're to create awareness of ovarian cancer, a cancer for which there is no routine screening. Find out the risk factors and the symptoms and let's try to help catch it in earlier stages. Hope's Wing is sponsoring the TEAL Statesville campaign. Check out their website or the TEAL Statesville Facebook page for more info.  And Friday is Wear Teal day....wear teal to support the cause.

Join us downtown to welcome the weekend! A fun night out or the whole family in downtown Statesville.  Who says there's nothing to do here?????  Not us!

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