events CAPE FEAR WILDLIFE AND EXPO 5th Annual Cape Fear Wildlife Expo, Wilmington (3/15-17). Fri./Sat. 9am-7pm; Sun, 10am-5pm. Family event that features wildlife art and decoy displays; book signings; hunting and fishing products; boats and accessories; truck and ATV displays; fly-fishing and decoy-carving demonstrations; conservation exhibits; outdoor sports guides and outfitters. Expo’s mission is to encourage youth to enjoy the great outdoors through hunting, fishing and other sports and to heighten public awareness of our natural resources and to encourage conservation of these natural resources. Kids will enjoy interactive activities: Sensory Safari, Aquatic Trailet, Kids Gone Wild and more. Celebrity guest Randy Edwards from History Channel’s “Swamp People” for autographs. Admission charge. Wilmington Convention Center and Coast Line Event & Conference Center. 910-795-0292; www.capefearwildlifeexpo.com. DRESS FOR SUCCESS FASHION SHOW 3/15, 12:15pm: Hosted by the UNCW Communication Studies Society, the 11th Annual Dress for Success Fashion Show encourages students to find their voice to stand out against their competition in the professional world. Communication Studies majors hit the runway for the event, modeling styles in business casual and business professional attire from the Men’s Wearhouse, White House | Black Market, and Belk at Independence Mall. The show teaches students how to dress professionally and helps prepare them by offering tips and advice for interviewing. The event is free and open to the public, and includes door prizes and entertainment. UNCW Warwick Center,
601 South College Rd. IRISH COFFEEHOUSE Celebrate St Patty’s at the Annual Irish Coffeehouse, Fri., 3/15, 7-9:30pm. John Kubilus, Nancy Buckingham, Warren Elliot, Irish folk singers, fiddle players, coffee and more. The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Wilmington, 4313 Lake Ave. www.uufwilmington.org or 910-620-8122. EQUESTRIAN FUN SHOW AND EXPO 3/16: The United States Equine Rescue League (USERL) Southeast Coast Region (SECR) is hosting a Fun Show and Expo to benefit local rescue horses in rehabilitation from abuse and neglect. The Fun Show and Expo will be held at Cross Roads Farm, 1157 Malpass Corner Rd., Burgaw. Free! All-volunteer run local chapter of USERL has assisted to rehabilitate and find forever homes for over 30 horses since it’s inception in the summer of 2010. Includes a Fun Show with English, Western and Game classes for a fee of $5/ class. Vendorsselling everything from horse supplies and equipment to jewelry and food. USERL will also have a vet on hand to complete shots and coggins for your cats, dogs and horses. Please keep cats in a carrier and dogs on a leash. Volunteers Terri Pierce at 910-612-8904 or piermiod@aol.com. Competiton: Ali Buckley at304-685-9462 or horsewoman15@live. com. Rain Date: March 17th, 2013 GUINNESS ST. PATTY’S DAY FEST See page 27. CAMERON SCHOOL’S BUSINESS WEEK UNCW presents 31st annual Business Week, 3/1822, hosted by Cameron School of Business. Designed to help prepare students for the realities of the business world, this year’s program will feature more
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than 100 sessions with prominent alumni and executives sharing their knowledge and experiences in the areas of business, marketing, entrepreneurship, information technology and more.Due to space availability, many events are not open to the public. If they are, that is noted below.Go to http://csb.uncw.edu/bw/ for full schedule/information. TOPSAIL’S 50 BIRTHDAY PARTY Topsail Beach 50th Birthday Party, 3/19, 6-8pm. Assemble Building, 720 Channel Blvd.. Topsail Beach, NC. Brunswick Stew dinner costing $5, will be available at the celebration followed with abirthday cake. Topsail Beach Town Hall: (910) 328-5841 or Steve Smith: (910) 547-2677 WILMINGTON BIZ CONFERENCE AND EXPO 3/21, 11:30am. NC Governor Pat McCrory will keynote the 2013 Wilmington Biz Conference & Expo at the Wilmington Convention Center. Keynote lunch, more than 100 exhibitors, 16 free seminars on a range of timely business topics and the region’s largest annual networking event. McCrory will talk about his first few weeks in office and his vision for NC’s economy. Wilmington Biz Expo Hall will open 1:30-7pm. Exhibitors in areas of Business, Technology, Hospitality and Health & Wellness and enter to win a year of free CloudWyze Internet service, iPads, Kindles and many more great prizes. Seminars available throughout the afternoon. Food and drinks available at Wilm. Biz After Hours 5:30-7pm, inside Expo Hall. www.WilmingtonBizExpo.com.Lunch: $40/person and $400/table of 10. Pre-reg rqd. Admission to the Expo Hall is $5 if you pre-register online or $10 at the door. Suesan Sullivan: (910) 343-8600 x213 or ssullivan@wilmingtonbiz.com BACK TO THE BEACH CAR SHOW 3/22: Cruise in at Smithfield’s Chicken and BBQ on 17th Street from 3-6Ppm and a parade of cars at 7pm from Food Lion in Carolina Beach to the car show site and a Social after that. • March 23rd: Registration from 8am-noon; show starts at 9am. Trophies at 3pm. Coco Loco Band, 11am-3pm. HERB AND GARDEN FAIR Start off the spring season with a fabulous garden show and sale. Sprawled across Poplar Grove Plantation will be an abundance of live plants, herbal products, garden items, arts and crafts and local foods for your shopping. Gardening, nature-related classes and activities are on-going. Sunday morning the Peanut 5K Fun Run takes off down beautiful Abbey Nature Preserve. Sat., 3/23, 9-4; 3/24, 10 -4. Peanut Run: Sunday, 8am. Poplar Grove Plantation, 910-686-9518. www.poplargrove.com
charity/fundraisers POWER OF THE PURSE Power of the Purse is a designer purse auction and raffle to benefit Wilmington Health Access for Teens (WHAT), a community based non-profit organization that provides primary care, mental health and health education services to teens in the lower Cape Fear Region. Pure fun philanthropy; an evening that combines shopping, fellowship and coming together to make a difference in the lives of teens and their families. Power of the Purse will take place on Thursday, 3/14, 6-8pm, at the Landfall Country Club. Sposors needed! www.whatswhat.org, (910) 202-4605.
SENIOR GAMES BY THE SEA Senior Games by the Sea registration deadline is 3/15. Event takes place 4/6-5/9, for athletes and artists 55 and up, competing in 40 sports and four art categories. 910-343-3682. seniorsofwilmington.com. STEVE HAYDU ST. PATRICK’S LO TIDE RUN The Steve Haydu St. Patrick’s Day Lo Tide Run is now in it’s 9th year with the 2013 event be held at the Carolina Beach Boardwalk Saturday, March 16th. 100% of race proceeds are donated to families fighting cancer who are in financial crisis. 5k, 8:45am, and 10k, 8:30am, w/$30 reg. fee. Raffles, prizes, and race ends on the beach! Afterparty at CB Boardwalk, w/$15 racer tickets or $20/adv and $25 day of for GA. Kids under 12 free. Kids’ Zone, face-painting, corn hold, live entertainment w/Lynne and the Wave, Groove Fetish and Sucker Punch; volleyball, food and beverages sold onsite or bring your own! www. lotiderun.org. Scott Betz, betz@lotiderun.org. (910) 368-9523. SPRING FLING AND FASHION SHOW The Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary annualSpring Fling Luncheon and Fashion Show, sponsored by Dillards, Saturday, 3/16, Pine Valley United Methodist Church and Activity Center. Silent Auction 11-12pm; Luncheon 12-1pm; Fashion Show 1pm. Tickets $20. All proceeds benefit The Salvation ArmyMen’s and Women’s Shelter; 799-4766. FACES OF COMPASSION 3/16, 6:30pm, Infant of Prague Parish Hall, Jacksonville, NC: A red carpet gala event to benefit the Foundation for Hospice. Mask event, with over 100 ceramic masks, decorated and painted by eastern NC’s artists, crafters, and other creative talents, will be auctioned. Masks have been exhibited at the Council for the Arts in Jacksonville and are currently on display at the Art Exposure in Hampstead and will be there until the first week in March. Music by Ocracoke Island’s Molasses Creek Band; special guests for the evening will be Miss North Carolina USA and Miss North Carolina Teen USA; jazz saxophonist, Richard Lawton will entertain with smooth jazz. Heavy h’ordeuvres and lots of fun as attendees compete in a silent and a “live” auction for the masks of their choice. Tickets are $25 per person. Tickets can be purchased in Jacksonville, Kinston, Hampstead, and New Bern at the Continuum Home Care & Hospice office. Tickets will also be sold at the door; however, seating is limited. 888-814-8904. ISAAC BEAR GOLF CLASSIC 3/16: Isaac Bear Early College Golf Classic and silent auction, Echo Farms. 9am Shotgun start. Silent auction ends 1pm. Awards and winning bids announced at lunch. Proceeds benefit leadership programs for IBEC students. Pig pickin’ ($8 for non-golfers), putting competition at noon (students, $2; adults, $5). 36 teams max; $70/person. 4-person team incl. 2 carts, green fees, lunch and drinks, goody bag. Sandy Bitter: sbitter1@gmail.com. 910-350-1387.
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