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WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM AUGUST 28-SEPTEMBER 3, 2019 UCW 9 North Carolina will celebrate the birthday of Revo- lutionary War hero Marquis de LaFayette Friday and Saturday, Sept. 6-7 in Fayetteville. Fayetteville was the first city in the nation named for the French nobleman when the State Assembly combined the towns of Cross Creek and Campbell- ton in 1783. It is the only namesake city Lafayette visited, even though there are many communities named for him. Festivities begin Friday evening with "Arias and Artifacts" in Davis Memorial Library at Methodist University. Tickets can be purchased at City Center Gallery & Books at 112 Hay St. or by calling 910-678-8899. e Lafayette Trail Tour takes place Saturday at 8:30 a.m., starting with coffee and croissants at the Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry, 210 Burgess St. Guests will see places that Lafayette visited when he was here in 1825. Reser- vations are required. Call 910-678-8899. Saturday, the Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex will celebrate Lafayette's birthday and the American Revolution with the annual Festival of Yesteryear: Revolution on the Cape Fear, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., in Arsenal Park. Ice hockey gets a boost at the Crown Coliseum Capital improvement projects underway at the Crown Coliseum will add years of life to the facility. e Cumberland County Board of Commissioners approved approximately $4.6 million to replace the coliseum ice system and ice floor and replace and paint two parking lots. ese funds were available from local food and beverage tax proceeds that must be utilized by law for costs associated with Crown facilities. e ice floor, which covers the entire performance area of the coliseum, and the ice floor chiller were replaced earlier this month. Old concrete and piping were removed, and new piping was installed along with 410 cubic yards of concrete. e concrete will need 28 days to cure and will be ready for use in mid-September. e new ice system is expected to provide more than 20 years of efficient ice-making capabilities. "Investment in capital projects at the Crown Com- plex ... (indicates) Cumberland County is committed to providing first-class entertainment facilities for its citizens," said Engineering and Infrastructure Director Jeffery Brown. Parking lot work to replace the Agri-Expo Center east parking lot and the Cooperative Extension parking lot is about 85% complete. Construction of the Crown Coliseum was completed in 1997. To see upcoming events at the Crown, go to crowncomplexnc.com. Animal shelter adoptions a success e Cumberland County Animal Shelter found homes, Aug. 17, for 162 animals during the nationwide Clear the Shelters event. Officials waived adoption fees for the day, resulting in 99 cats, 61 dogs and two guinea pigs being adopted. Twenty-two animal control staff members and 30 volunteers assisted more than 550 people who visited the shelter to see the available animals. Dr. April Kelly, animal control staff veterinarian, met with families to answer questions and provide infor- mation abouts heartworms, fleas, ticks and other pet health topics. Friends of the Cumberland County Ani- mal Shelter provided adopters with gift bags with pet- related items. People interested in pet adoptions can visit the animal shelter during regular business hours, Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. Visit http://bit.ly/CCAdopt- ablePets for more information on pet adoptions. Operation Safe Travel One of the goals of the North Carolina Highway Patrol is to reduce teenage driver crashes. To accom- plish this objective, the State Patrol has requested the assistance of the Cumberland County Schools system to inform parents of high school students who drive to school to be aware of the following issues: speeding; seatbelt usage; limited provisional license violations; Level II driver restrictions, which means one teen- age passenger; and distractions such as texting while driving and cellphone usage. Troopers are patrol- ling the main thoroughfares and roads that feed into county schools during the first two weeks of the school year. Parents are urged to make their teens aware that enforcement actions will be taken for substantial viola- tions of motor vehicle laws. Introducing the EMBLETC e Cumberland County Board of Commission- ers has named the sheriff 's training center in honor of former longtime Sheriff Moose Butler, who retired three years ago. Sheriff Ennis Wright asked the board to name the training center for Butler. Sheriff Wright provided a petition signed by 14 current and former elected officials supporting the endorsement. e building, located next to the Animal Control Center on Corporation Drive, is now the Earl "Moose" Butler Law Enforcement Training Center. Butler served as Cumberland County Sheriff for 22 years, from 1994 to 2016. e state-of-the-art training center was built during his tenure. It has an indoor firing range, munitions room, lecture rooms, a driver training pad and other features. It was built using money forfeited by drug dealers who were arrested and successfully prosecuted. Celebrating Fayetteville's namesake by JEFF THOMPSON NEWS DIGEST JEFF THOMPSON, Reporter. COMMENTS? Editor@upandcomin- gweekly.com. 910-484-6200. Earl "Moose" Butler