NC Music Hall of Fame Calendar of Events SEPTEMBER 2015 2015 Induction Ceremony ONGOING The 2015 North Carolina Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be Tuesday & Thursdays ZUMBA Class: Village Park; held October 15. Many of the inductees will perform live as part of the 6-7pm, FREE through Labor Day ceremony honoring their achievements. Open to the public, tickets are selling fast. SEPTEMBER VIP and general admission 12 Kannapolis Cruise-In: Down- town Kannapolis. 3:30-9pm tickets are available online at www.2015induction. 26 Kaleidoscope Cultural Arts Festival/Wine Tasting: eventbrite.com or at Downtown Kannapolis. the NC Music Hall of 12-6pm Fame Museum. General admission tickets are $25 Parks & Rec Road Trips and VIP tickets are $70 SEPTEMBER (with limited availability). 15 RJ Reynolds Museum: Winston Salem, NC. 9:30am- This year’s inductees 5:30pm. $15 per person More Walkable Greenways are on the Way! include: (Lunch NOT included!). Registration due by annapolis residents currently enjoy two miles of walkable, connecting greenway. The Bakers • Gerald Alston: lead September 4. Creek Greenway was constructed about 20 years ago and now connects to the 8th Street singer of the R&B/Pop K group The Manhattans 29 Rocky River & Dennis Greenway, which was built in 2006. Vineyards: Albemarle, NC. (from Henderson); 10am-6pm, $25 per person Now plans are in the works for working with the developers of • The Rev. F.C. Barnes (Lunch NOT included!). additional greenway space that Summers Walk (Phase V) and (deceased): gospel singer/songwriter of the hit gospel song Rough Side of Registration due by will bring a total of 11 walkable Waterford subdivisions to develop September 11. The Mountain (from Rocky Mount); greenway miles to Kannapolis. these two segments. Both corridors • Nappy Brown (deceased): blues/R&B singer during the late 1940s and will be part of the 15-county OCTOBER Kannapolis has already been early ‘50s (from Charlotte); transportation network known as the 8 Great Smoky Mountain awarded a grant to build the first 2.7 • Eric Church: country rock musician/singer and this year’s Country Music Carolina Thread Trail. Railroad: Bryson City, NC. miles of a seven-mile-long greenway Hall of Fame nominee (from Granite Falls); 8am-11pm, $70 per person (Dinner NOT included). that will span from I-85 to Bakers Walking for pleasure is the • Warren Haynes: Southern rock guitarist/singer with the Allman Brothers Registration due by Creek Park. “We’re currently waiting number one recreational activity Band and founder/member of Gov’t. Mule (from Asheville); September 16. on NCDOT in order to begin,” in the country. Kannapolis recently • Chuck Jackson: R&B/pop singer with hit recordings Any Day Now and I Kannapolis Parks & Recreation conducted three public surveys, and Don’t Want To Cry (from Winston Salem); Director Gary Mills explains. He the greenways came out as the clear • The Fantastic Shakers: pioneer Carolina beach music band (from says the design process will start winner for recreational amenities Lincolnton); KANNAPOLIS within the next few months and residents want to see. • Jay Spell (deceased): musician/arranger who performed with Hall of Fame construction should begin in late artists Ronnie Milsap, Jimmy Buffett and others (from Spivey Corners). FARMERS MARKET And because of grant money, and 2016 or early 2017. state and federal assistance, the Thursdays: The other expanse currently being money spent by the City is a small 4-7pm planned is the Rocky River Corridor, the Mecklenburg County line to portion of the total cost. The Irish Highway 73, where the existing Follow the City on Facebook (facebook.com/cityofkannapolis) a greenway that spans across Buffalo Creek Corridor is expected and Twitter (twitter.com#Kannapolis) for regular updates Vance Street & Cabarrus County. The two-mile Concord Greenway ends. The to cost $2.1 million. Kannapolis’ and more ideas for fun. Dale Earnhardt Kannapolis section will reach from opposite end will connect to the share of the cost should only Boulevard Mecklenburg County nature be about $418,000. The nearly preserve. Mills says the City is The City of Kannapolis $1.7-million balance comes from Accepting WIC vouchers the State. 401 Laureate Way | Kannapolis, NC 28081 and credit cards 704.920.4300 | www.kannapolisnc.gov Capturing Our Memories of NC BIG SWEEP Downtown IS october 3 Help us clean up Kannapolis! Grab a group of friends, family members, Kannapolis your civic or church buddies and join us for a few hours for the annual Do you have memories of Fire Department NC Big Sweep cleanup. The more volunteers who come, the bigger the Downtown Kannapolis you would Inspiring a Healthy Taste impact! This year’s statewide Big Sweep cleanup will be held on Saturday, Will Host Annual like to share? A special business October 3. for Nutrition or place you or your family Open House As the first director of culinary nutrition for the Dole Nutrition Institute would enjoy visiting? A first date, Cleanups are important because litter can last hundreds of years in our (DNI) – located at the NC Research Campus (NCRC) – Mark Allison, engagement, birthday spent in environment. While litter is in the environment, it can endanger people and award-winning chef, culinary educator and author, is working with NCRC Downtown? Did you celebrate other wildlife. Until it decomposes, litter attracts disease-carrying mosquitoes and scientists. His goal is to blend scientific findings with culinary arts to significant milestones with a visit to rodents and can be deadly to wildlife that eat or become entangled in the motivate people to cook healthy meals filled with fruits and vegetables. Downtown? litter. It’s also just dirty. It looks terrible. Litter affects local economies when it causes tourists to avoid areas where debris is an issue, resulting in a loss Are there people who worked Allison acknowledges that getting people into the kitchen to make of tourism revenue. nutritionally-sound and delicious meals from fresh foods is a challenge. Downtown that you fondly recall or When food is entertainment who made an impact in your life? With all of us pulling together more than nourishment, and participating in the NC The City has joined the Kannapolis and people read about good Big Sweep cleanup, we can Kannapolis Fire will host its Annual History Associates and Downtown nutrition rather than practice it, make our city beautiful. To sign Open House Event at Fire Station 1 Kannapolis Inc. to collect your rates of chronic disease that can up, please e-mail ssimpson@ on October 3 from 11am-3pm. memories and stories of Downtown. be prevented by a healthy diet kannapolisnc.gov and visit Send us your memory. Where Located at 300 Firehouse Drive, skyrocket. www.ncbigsweep.org for more did your memory/story occur the event kicks off Fire Prevention information. You can choose (building, street, location)? When Week: October 4-10. This year’s fire “The problem these days is that the location where you want to did it occur? Include your name, prevention theme is Hear the Beep everything is so accessible,” clean or we can make a suggestion. We can furnish garbage bags, gloves address, email address and phone Where You Sleep: Every Bedroom Allison comments. “We just and vests for your cleanup. walk to the local shop, buy number. Send it to: Irene Sacks, City Needs a Working Smoke Alarm and whatever we want, eat it, and of Kannapolis, 401 Laureate Way, OTHER WAyS You CAN HELp focuses on the importance of having we don’t even think about how Kannapolis, NC 28081 or email to • Dispose of your trash properly! Don’t let your friends litter! Accidental working smoke alarms in bedrooms loaded processed foods are with sugar, fat and salt. We take in all these downtownkannapolisstories@gmail. littering is just as harmful as intentional littering. and sleeping areas of the home. com by September 30. extra calories without even realizing it.” • Always secure your load, whether you are in a car, truck or boat. Come meet City firefighters and • Help keep storm drains clean, as they lead to our waterways. enjoy festivities such as smoke alarm At the DNI – a part of Dole Food Company that creates and distributes • Reduce trash by buying smart. Buy products in larger quantities and with information, fire safety activities, scientifically-validated health and nutrition resources – Allison reaches less packaging. kids’ arts & crafts, fire trucks, fire large audiences and shares his family’s battles with diabetes and cancer • Recycle! to encourage people to adopt a healthy diet. extinguisher training, mascot visits, • Join the Adopt A Street program and help keep our roadways and entertainment and more. waterways clean year-round. “With Mark on board, we can change the conversation about nutrition,” Food will be available for purchase remarks Nicholas Gillitt, PhD, Dole Food Company vice-president from the Kannapolis Firefighters of nutrition research and DNI director. “The conversation right now Safety Palooza Fun! Assistance Foundation (KFAF), a seems to focus far too much on what you shouldn’t eat: extra calories Join us for Safety palooza on September 19 from There will be lots of free activities, games, prizes, non-profit foundation that assists via added sugars, fats and salt. We want people to turn their attention 10am-2pm at the Concord K-mart – 545 Concord music and more! You’ll learn about how to be safe at Kannapolis firefighters and families. to what you should eat, and Mark’s culinary expertise can help us all Pkwy. Kannapolis firefighters, police officers and Safe home, how to make emergency plans, and what to do include more fruits and vegetables in our everyday diets.” Kids Cabarrus will participate in the event designed to during severe weather events.