All events are taken from the Murfreesboro Post Community Calendar, which can be found at www.murfreesboropost.com/mod/comcal.
Duck Derby
On Saturday, the lawn around the Sportsman’s Lodge, located on Medical Center Parkway at Stones River, will be filled with friends and family at the 3rd annual Duck Derby.
The family fun events begin at noon, at 3:30 p.m. Bob Parks Auction Team will auction memorabilia items, and 10,000 wild quackers fight their way around the dam’s spillway at 4:34 that afternoon.
These rare, rubber-billed quackers elbow their way down a chute and the adoptees of the first 10 will win great prizes.
To see the prizes, adopt a rubber duck or see how you can volunteer, visit this Web site.
The annual Duck Race benefits the local Child Advocacy Center. Last year the Samsonite Boulevard counseling center served 1,041 Rutherford County children and 385 parents and grandparents.
The staff also worked with abused children from neighboring Cannon County and their parents and grandparents.
Doggy Bag Trunk Sale
Penny’s Closet will be opening its doors “for the animals” by hosting The Doggy Bag Trunk Sale.
Guests – two-legged only – can enjoy shopping for designer bags while enjoying a sweet mimosa.
The event will be held Friday, July 17 from 2-5 p.m. at Penny’s Closet located at 1602 W. Northfield Blvd., Suite 9 in Georgetown Square.
Designer bags by Brighton (summer bags are half off), Miche, Butler, Lucky, Tylie Malibu and more will be available for purchase with a portion of the proceeds going to On The Fifth Day to further their mission to “Build The A.R.K.”, (The Animal Rescue Keystone) - a no-kill, nonprofit animal sanctuary.
Representatives from the sanctuary will be present to accept donations and to present a door prize valued at over $100.
For more information on The Doggy Bag Trunk Sale send an e-mail to jenghilsher@onthefifthday.org or call 233-5398. For information on how to be involved with the sanctuary benefits mentioned above or volunteer opportunities, please visit: www.onthefifthday.org.
Movies Under the Stars
Movies Under the Stars, the city’s annual summer tradition, returns for another family-fun summer.
This week’s selection, a Christmas classic about a loveable but mysterious exotic pet brought home from Chinatown becomes the source of a slew of miseries for an American suburb, will be screened at 8:30 p.m. at Mitchell-Neilson Primary on Friday and Hobgood Elementary on Saturday.
Bring your lawn chairs, blanket and picnic and enjoy the show. Concessions will be available.
For more information, recreation@murfreesborotn.govcontact Murfreesboro Parks and Recreation Department at 890-5333 or e-mail recreation@murfreesborotn.gov.
State Street Block Party
Saving a generation of children is the goal for the Adopt-A-Street initiative being developed for the inner city State Street off Southeast Broad Street.
Ministers, more than 70 representatives of community organizations, church members and volunteers will talk to residents to determine their needs and add services, said MTSU Associate Professor Linda Gilbert, who is volunteering with the program.
The community block party will kick off the initiative at 3 p.m. Saturday on State Street. Adopt-A-Street organizers and Second Chance Ministries will sponsor the party.
The Rev. Vincent Windrow of Olive Branch Missionary Baptist Church is developing the effort with pastors of Rockvale Independent Regional Church of God, Key Memorial United Methodist Church, Stones River Church, Mt. Zion Rucker Church and First Baptist Church on Castle Street.
goal is to establish a relationship and start a discussion about issues that affect neighborhood children, homes, churches and the community with a goal of restoring and rebuilding the community.
For more information, call 615-494-1607.
Theater
Out Front Productions in partnership with Murfreesboro Little Theatre presents Del Shores' Daddy's Dyin'...Who's Got The Will, directed for the stage by George W. Manus, Jr.
The show runs through this weekend with show times on Friday and Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10.
Murfreesboro Little Theatre is located at 702 Ewing Blvd. For more information or tickets call 893-9825.
This stage version follows a dysfunctional Southern family as they squabble among themselves over the family fortune. As the title would suggest, Daddy, the patriarch of a large family in the Deep South, is reaching the end of life's journey as his health and energy slip away and he watches midget wrestling on a television that isn't even turned on.
Daddy's children have all returned to the family home, ostensibly to show their support in their father's final hours, but mainly because they're eager to know how Daddy's estate will be divided.
Tickets are available online at mltarts.com/Tickets.html.
The Arts Center of Cannon County presents the classic American musical West Side Story at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday night and 2 p.m. Sunday.
The musical chronicles the war between two teenage gangs - the Jets and the Sharks whose battle for turf and superiority provides the backdrop for the romance of two young people caught in a violent cross-cultural struggle.
Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for students, seniors and groups, and is not included with the season pass.
For more information, call 615-563-ARTS (2787) or visit www.artscenterofcc.com.
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