Calendar of Events
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Concert in the Park, 7-10 pm, Village Park, featuring Lonestar Thursdays on Main: Lunch 11:30 am-1 pm, Veterans Park, featuring Stella Rising Thursdays on Main: Evening 6-9 pm, Veterans Park, featuring Midnight Allie Movies in the Park 8:30 pm, Village Park, featuring Inside Out (PG) Kannapolis Cruise-In 3:30-9:30 pm, Downtown
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Thursdays on Main: Lunch 11:30 am-1 pm, Veterans Park, featuring Diamond Shaped Daylight Concert in the Park, 7-10 pm, Village Park, featuring Breakfast Club & Gump Fiction Thursdays on Main: Lunch 11:30 am-1 pm, Veterans Park, featuring Nita B Jazz Trio
24 Movies in the Park 7 pm, Village Park, featuring The Martian (PG-13)
25 Kaleidoscope Cultural Arts Festival 12-5 pm, Downtown 25 30 30
Stories Under the Stars, 7-10 pm, Kannapolis Branch Library featuring Flow Circus Thursdays on Main: Lunch 11:30 am-1 pm, Veterans Park, featuring SoundBarrier Concert in the Park, 7-10 pm, Village Park, featuring Charlotte Symphony
JULY 8 Movies in the Park 8:30 pm, Village Park, featuring The Peanuts Movie (PG) 9 Kannapolis Cruise-In 1-7 pm, Downtown 14 Thursdays on Main: Evening 6-9 pm, Veterans Park, featuring Boat Rockers 16 Concert in the Park, 7-10 pm, Village Park, featuring Andrew Theilen Big Band
Public Invited to Downtown Revitalization Master Plan Informational Meeting The Kannapolis City Council invites the public to attend an informational meeting on the Downtown Revitalization Master Plan. The public will have two opportunities to hear details of the proposed master plan. Informational meetings will be held from 6-7 pm, June 20 and June 29, at Kannapolis City Hall & Police Headquarters located at 401 Laureate Way.
In September of 2015 the City purchased approximately 50 acres of property and 80 buildings in the downtown core. Since then, City Council members and staff have been working with the non-profit Development Finance Initiative (DFI), at the UNC-CH School of Government, to strategically prepare for the revitalization of downtown Kannapolis. DFI has used input from City Council members as well as market and site analyses to prepare the Downtown
20 Children’s Theatre 10:30 am, Veterans Park, featuring Upcycled Cinderella 22 Movies in the Park 8:30 pm, Village Park, featuring The Good Dinosaur (PG) 23 Stories Under the Stars, 7-10 pm, Kannapolis Branch Library featuring Piedmont Dance Ballet 30 Thursdays on Main: Evening 6-9 pm, Veterans Park, featuring Too Much Sylvia For a complete schedule, visit kannapolisnc.gov. June Delmarva 24 Shoreb Get Healt hy Kanna irds polis Nigh t June Delmarva 25 Sho Star Wars rebirds Post-gam Night e Firework s
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JUNE 2 Thursdays on Main: Lunch 11:30 am-1 pm, Veterans Park, featuring Chris Marks Band
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Revitalization Master Plan. Components of the Master Plan will include proposing types of uses and locations for anchors that will drive people to the downtown core, such as a sports and entertainment venue and performing arts center; and recommendations for residential, retail, office and restaurants. In addition to a presentation on the master plan, the public will be able to view a detailed 3D model of the downtown properties that were purchased.
The Winecoff Fire Station: 1956
A HISTORICAL TIMELINE 1906: J.W. Cannon builds his first textile mill. Kannapolis is established. 1916: Cannon Mills purchased a firefighting hose reel for use in the growing village. The crew is made up of volunteers. 1923: KFD reformed after being inactive since 1918 due to WWI. 1933: “Towel City” firemen set two world records that still stand today. 1934: The department receives the first motorized pumper capable of pumping 300 gallons per minute. 1934: Cannon Mills provides a lean-to adjoining the garage facility at Plant 1. 1942: KFD receives a new Mack pumper capable of pumping 500 gallons per minute, later nicknamed “The Mack.” 1951: An additional new pumper was purchased and added to the growing fleet.
n 1916, 10 years after Kannapolis had been established by J.W. Cannon, the mill purchased its first fire hose and firefighting equipment.
The entire fire department consisted of volunteers from the mill and community. At the time, there were four hydrants placed around the city and, in the event of a fire, the firefighters would attach the 600-foot hose to the closest one and run the reel to the scene of a fire. However, due to the U.S. entering World War I, the department disbanded in 1918. It would be five years before it was reformed. Over the next decade, Kannapolis Fire (KFD) gained a reputation throughout the state for having some of the most athletic firefighters around. Due to the stamina needed to simply carry and operate the hose reel, the job was not one for the weak. As a result, the Kannapolis team regularly set records at the annual State Fireman’s Association meetings in reel race competitions, among others. In 1933, the “Towel City” firemen, as they had come to be known, set two world records that still stand to this day. Only a year later, KFD began to see big advancements in both equipment and facilities. It received its first motorized apparatus in the form of a pumper that was capable of pumping 300 gallons of water per minute. In that same year, Cannon Mills provided an adjoining facility to the garage at Plant 1 and a paid driver. It wasn’t long before the department had its first real fire house. In the early 1940s, the country was deeply entrenched in World War II and the mill was dedicated to providing for that effort. At the same time, KFD received a new Mack pumper, which could pump 500 gallons of water per minute. It would come to be known as “The Mack.” By the early ‘50s, “The Mack” was just the first of several pumpers purchased, and the fleet was growing.
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Kannapolis Fire: 100 Years and Counting (Part I: 1906 - 1956)
Next month, Part II of this two-part series will share more about KFD’s exciting history. The Reel Team, circa 1933