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Thursday, November 28, 2013
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Ride the Rails with Santa Claus this Holiday Season at New Hope Valley
Ride the Rails with Santa Claus this Holiday Season
New Hope Valley Railway Hosts Annual Santa Train Dec. 7, 8, 14 and 15
(Bonsal, NC, Oct. 31, 2013) — The New Hope Valley Railway (NHVR), will offer its annual Holiday Santa Trains the first two weekends of December on Saturdays Dec. 7 and 14 and Sundays Dec. 8 and 15, 2013. Trains will depart from the rail yard located in Bonsal, N.C., just 10 minutes south of Apex off of U.S. Highway 1, Exit 89.
A number of holiday characters will interact with kids of all ages during their visit. Frosty the Snowman will greet children in the rail yard, while an elf from the North Pole hands out candy canes or coal depending on who’s been naughty or nice.
Santa Clause will be on board the train joining visitors for a ride in the open-air passenger cars pulled by either a diesel or steam locomotive. Santa will go car-to-car, talk to each child and pose for photos during the hour-long ride.
“The holidays are such a special time of year at the New Hope Valley Railway, and the annual rides with Santa are a favorite among both visitors and volunteers who put the event together,” says long-time NHVR volunteer Dave Chasco. “We see many families return year after year who’ve made the Triangle Train part of their holiday tradition.”
Chasco says there can be a chill in the air in December and advises visitors to check the weather and dress accordingly. “Trains will operate in snow, sleet or rain, so come prepared,” he adds. Hot chocolate, hot dogs and other concessions are available from a food vendor set-up in the rail yard.
Tickets may be purchased online at www.TriangleTrain.comor at the train yard the day of the ride.
Holiday Santa Trains will operate two weekends in December 2013:
• Saturday and Sunday, December 7 & 8 • Saturday and Sunday, December 14 & 15
Diesel train rides depart at:
• 11:00 am, 1:30 pm and 4:00 pm
Steam train rides depart at:
• 12:15 pm and 2:45 pm
Diesel train ride tickets are:
• $10 for adults and $7 for children, ages 2-12.
Steam train ride tickets are:
• $12 for adults and $8 for children.
NHVR recommends buying tickets online and arriving at the train yard 30 minutes before the listed departure time.
Learn more by visiting www.TriangleTrain.com orwww.facebook.com/TriangleTrain.
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Families enjoy riding the Triangle Train’s
open-air passenger cars as part of their
holiday tradition.
Santa visits each train car, talking
with children and posing for photos
during the hour-long ride.
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About New Hope Valley Railway (NHVR)
The public is invited to visit The Triangle’s Train in historic Bonsal, North Carolina, located just 10 minutes south of Apex off of U.S. Highway 1. Trains generally operate one Sunday each month beginning in the spring through the end of the year. There are also special Halloween and Santa trains as well as themed events, charter and group train rides, opportunities to operate a train and birthday parties in an historic caboose.
The North Carolina Railway Museum, a collection of antique train cars and an elaborate G Scale model garden railroad are also part of the NHVR grounds along with a gift shop. Visit www.TriangleTrain.com.
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Spring Garden Food Truck Festival Benefitting the Children's Organ Transplant Association
Spring Garden Food Truck Festival will be this Sunday, October 6 from 4:00-9:00pm, with 18 food trucks, music, face painting and a wine tasting to benefit KeeCee Frazier-DeVenny, a sixteen-year-old North Carolinian battling a life threatening case of sickle cell anemia.
KeeCee, an avid reader and AP student, had a life-saving stem cell transplant at Duke University Medical Center in August 2013. This event will benefit the Children's Organ Transplant Association. You can read more of KeeCee's story and/or make an online donation here.
Saturday, September 14, 2013
16th Annual Sweet Potato Festival
16th Annual Sweet Potato Festival, in Surry County
on Saturday, September 21 from 10-5.
FREE Live Music, craft vendors, blacksmith demonstrations, local authors, sweet potato pie, sonkers, country ham biscuits, chicken stew, pintos and cornbread and this year Sweet Potato Coffee.
Call 336-374-5317 for more information.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Free in Concord! The Bill Cherry Music Festival, August 17, 2013
Music Festival (9 Bands!) to raise money for Hannah Conley
Family Friendly Music!
August 17, 2013 Noon-8pm
Frank Liske Park
4001 Stough Road, Concord, NC
Bring the whole family (pets included) chairs and blankets.
Boston Butts and music for a good cause... doesn't get any better than that.
Free Admission and with $10 donation you receive a Boston Butt plate.
All donations going to help Hannah Conley!
(See Hannah's story, and why this festival was started, below)
From the Bill Cherry Music Festival facebook page
Hannah Conley
(This was written by Hannah’s Dad)
Where do I start to tell you about my girl, Hannah? We had a normal typical pregnancy with no indications that Hannah had any problems prior to birth. She began to have issues and was diagnosed at ten days old with a brain abnormality. Because of that, Hannah has Cerebral Palsy. She has muscle movement disorder, she is non-verbal (unable to talk), she cannot walk independently, and needs complete assistance with most everything. Hannah had spinal fusion surgery in February to correct an extensive curve in her spine that was completely compressing her left lung. She now has two rods and screws from the base of her neck to the base of her spine. She is still recovering, but is doing really well. The surgery was 8 hours and she spent almost three weeks in the hospital. This surgery adds more discomfort from being lifted in and out of the car. Hannah weighs 76 pounds. It is getting harder and harder for Hannah’s mother to get in and out of the car. Her mother had breast cancer two years ago and the surgeries left Mom without abdominal muscles. This makes lifting Hannah exceedingly difficult for Mom. She has to have total help with bathing, dressing, moving from one position to another, and has to have her food in a mashed consistency in order to not choke.
Hannah is 13. We live in Boiling Springs, NC. She is bright, happy, and the sweetest little girl ever! She uses a power chair for mobility. She loves school and her friends. Hannah loves her touch screen computer, and her I Pad. She loves her church and her church family. She also loves her family, especially her big brother; Austin who is 17 and attends Crest HS. Hannah has a dog, Baxter, who is her best friend. She also has a fat cat named Miss Kitty. She enjoys music, dancing, cheerleading, Special Olympics, and horses.
Thank you so much for thinking of our family. It is amazing that God used a contest and facebook to bring this all together. Words are not enough to say thank you. We are so overwhelmed and honestly are speechless!
Well my name is Mike Holbrooks and let me give you a little bit of the back story of how Facebook made this possible. It starts with Bill Cherry one of my best friends for over 30 years. About 5 years ago he was riding his motorcycle and was hit by a guy texting. The accident left him paralyzed from the chest down and with the use of only one arm. He wanted to feel independent again so he had passed his driving class but Medicaid said he had to come up $15,000 before they would build him an adaptive handicap van. I was planning to put on a music festival fund raiser for him but this past December 13th he passed away. After he passed away I told myself I was going to leave his photo as my Facebook photo till I put on this fund raiser for someone else in his honor. One morning at work Bill was on my mind. So I started calling a few different government groups that deal with handicap individuals. I wanted to see if they could put me in touch with some good people that needed some help trying to get an adaptive handicap van. I made seven phone calls that morning and they all said that I was either talking to the wrong department or person. I was fed up so I told myself that this was too hard and I had tried my best. So I went back to working. No more than 15 minutes later I get an invite from Facebook. I get so many invites to play games or other stuff I usually don’t even look at them but for some reason I pulled it up. The first thing I see is Hannah’s smiling face with a request to vote for her in a contest to try and win an adaptive handicap van. Ok remember I had just got off the phone trying to get in touch with someone I could try and help to get an adaptive van for. I knew then that Bill Cherry had that Facebook message sent to me because he knew I was about to give up. So if it had not been for Facebook and a little help from a best friend this union would have never been possible. Thanks for Your Support
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Beats Lunchbreak in July! Food, art, music and dancing
Free Admission!
Food, art, music and dancing -- All during your lunch break.
July 11, 18 & 25 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts
251 N Spruce St
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