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Crimestoppers BBQ: A Reward Not to Miss When you hear the words Crime Stoppers, you don’t necessarily think BBQ, that is, unless you live in Fayetteville. The Fayetteville Cumberland County Crimestoppers organization has been cooking up some of the best BBQ in the county for 25 years. And the only time you can get it is during the Dogwood Festival. Crimestoppers were in on the fi rst festival, and have no plans of getting out of the BBQ business anytime soon. Last year, the organization served-up close to 3,000 plates, and since it has grown every year, they hope to delight the taste buds of even more visitors to the festival. All proceeds from the plate sale go right back into the organization, which hands out rewards for folks who are willing and able to offer up information on crimes that have been committed in our community. The BBQ plate sale is the biggest annual fundraiser for the organization. Organizers have been using the same secret BBQ sauce to flavor their meat for a long time, but don’t expect them to share their secret recipe. The event kicks-off on Friday, April 23 from 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. at the Harris Teeter parking lot at 2800 Raeford Rd. The cost is $6 per plate, which also includes potato salad, cole slaw and a dinner roll. This is a drive thru allowing for lunch or dinner! Stop by and grab a plate on your way to the festival’s Bloom and Boom Kickoff Party. Delivery is available for orders of 15 plates or more. Since its inception in Cumberland County, Crimestoppers — through anonymous tips — has provided information resulting in the arrest of more than 3,792 felons, 67 homicides being solved and recovered more than $4.7 million in property and narcotics; the organization has paid out more than $276,333 in rewards. Folks are asked to call Crimestoppers at 483-TIPS if they have information regarding criminal activity. If the information you provide results in a case being solved, you can receive a reward of as much as $1,000. For more information, call 624- 6922 or visit the Web site at www.fay-ccrimestoppers.org. Hit the Streets for the YMCA Dogwood 10K So you want to be a part of the Dogwood Festival, but you’re not really sure what you can do to give back instead of just receiving the fun of the event. Well, here’s a way you can have fun, improve your health and still give back to the community: The YMCA Dogwood Festival Run for Your Hero 5K & 10K Run. The YMCA Dogwood Festival run will get you up early — the event starts at 7:30 a.m. — so you won’t miss one second of the fun to come. It winds through some of the most beautiful neighborhoods in the city. And, while you are looking at the lovely dogwoods and azaleas in bloom, you really can’t complain too much about your tired muscles. Best of all, the money you pay to register for the race goes right back into the community to help fund summer camp scholarships at the YMCA. Participating in the event lets you live up to the YMCA’s goal of helping build healthy minds, bodies and spirits. The race will start at FTCC Parking Lot 5 at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 24. The YMCA staff has worked very hard to incorporate feedback from previous years and is looking to this year’s run as the best race the Y has ever had! The theme is Run for Your Hero. It is celebrating heroes that build strong kids, families and communities. Prior to the race the YMCA is accepting essays about personal heroes and on the day of the race essay winners and their heroes will be announced. A free kids run is scheduled for 9 a.m. “We are really looking to provide something for all ages and all skill levels,” said YMCA spokesperson Lee Foley. “Even if your fi tness level is not what you think it should be or if you don’t run much, we’ve tried to accommodate that.” The race has expanded age groups and high school and military team divisions. In the High School Division, a trophy will be awarded to the team with the fastest time. Time will be calculated by averaging the times of all fi ve team members. The entry fee is $20 per person for the 5k and $25 for the 10K. Registration can be made at the Hope Mills or Fayetteville YMCA location or online at active.com. Registration fee is $25 on the day of the race between 6 - 7:15 a.m. An awards presentation will occur at 9:45 a.m. If you fi nd that you aren’t quite in shape to tackle the race, there are many volunteer opportunities available on race day. For questions concerning participation in the race or volunteering at the race, please contact the race director at 850-8957. Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra to Paint a Musical Picture at Season Finale Music will fi ll Reeves Auditorium at Methodist University on Saturday, May 1, at 8 p.m., when the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra performs its season fi nale as part of the Dogwood Festival. The concert marks the closure of the FSO’s 53rd season and it ends on a high note as the orchestra presents Pictures at an Exhibition featuring works by Modest Petrovich Musorgsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giuseppe Verdi. The highlight of the evening will be the performance of Pictures at an Exhibition, a work by Russian composer Musorgsky, one of the wild cards of 19th century Russian music who left very few completed scores by the time of his early death from alcoholism. Musorgsky was a member of the “Mighty Five” – together with Mily Balakirev, Aleksander Borodin, Cesar Cui and Nikolay Rimsky- Korsakov – whose goal was to further the pan-Slavic movement and Russian nationalist music. In July 1873, Musorgsky’s close friend, the young architect and painter Victor Gartman, died suddenly. The following year a posthumous showing of his drawings, paintings and designs was presented in St. Petersburg. Much of Gartman’s work was fantastic and bizarre in nature, elements which held a special fascination for Musorgsky, who set out to create a musical memorial to his friend in the form of a suite of piano pieces. He depicted his impressions of ten of the pictures, portraying himself as the observer in the “Promenade” WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM that introduces the work and serves as connector between the tableaux. There is no evidence that Musorgsky ever planned to orchestrate the suite, although many of the pieces cry out for orchestration. The score was not published until fi ve years after the composer’s death, at which point other composers started its long history of orchestrated versions, the most popular and by far the most successful “recomposition” is the one by Maurice Ravel. This is the piece that the FSO will perform. Tickets for the fi nal performance of the season can be purchased by phone at (910) 433-4690, online at www. fayettevillesymphony.org, or at the door the night of the event. Musorgsky APRIL 23-25, 2010 DOGWOOD FESTIVAL 9

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