An evening of chocolate-dipped history Historic Coffee, Tea, & Chocolate

An Evening of Chocolate-Dipped History

Friday, February 28, 2014
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Old Salem Visitor Center

This special evening event is a prelude to Saturday’s Chocolate-Dipped History

Join us for a celebration of all things chocolate and things that go great with chocolate. Featuring a chocolate history demonstration by Mars Chocolate North America showcasing a colonial-style drinking chocolate, American Heritage Chocolate®. Guests will enjoy socializing and tastings from local food and beverage vendors celebrating “all things chocolate.” The event also features live music from local musicians and fun giveaways! Attendees will also have the opportunity to purchase historic drinking chocolate to enjoy at home.

COST: $30 for Friends of Old Salem / $40 for non-members. Admission includes hors d’oeuvres, dessert stations, local beers, wine, spirits and live music.

Click here to purchase a ticket to this special event. For more information, please contact Sarah Chandler (336-201-5177, schandler@oldsalem.org).

For more information, please contact info@oldsalem.org or 336-721-7300

The Piedmont Opera Presents Rodgers and Hammersteins’s South Pacific

The Piedmont Opera Presents South Pacific

Tickets are on sale now for South Pacific!

Our exciting production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific on Friday, March 14th (8:00 pm) and runs Sunday, March 16th at 2:00 pm and closes on Tuesday, March 18th at 7:30 pm.

Tickets for South Pacific are still available.

For ticket information call 336-725-7101 or our online ticket page HERE. For directions to the Stevens Center of UNCSA go HERE.
Donations

Please make your donation today. The Piedmont Opera relies on support from patrons like you.

To purchase tickets to the Saturday afternoon Met Opera simulcasts, Call the Hanesbrands Theatre Box Office at (336) 747-1414, or buy ONLINE.

Contact Us

Piedmont Opera
235 North Cherry StreetSuite 100
Winston Salem, NC 27101
Box Office: 336.725.7101 x100
Fax: 336.725.7131
Email: info@piedmontopera.org

Directions to the Stevens Center

For More Information please visit: http://www.piedmontopera.org/?raypublishing

Review – Piedmont Opera’s South Pacific – Younger Than Springtime 

Third Annual Chili Cook Off

Update! Thank you to everyone who was a part of this amazing event. We had 29 chefs, around 350 tasters, and raised just over $6000 for the Kids of Childhood Cancer! All on the most beautiful day so far in 2014! #raypublishing #kidsofchildhoodcancer #brandonswarriors #smokinharleydavidson

Saturday, February 22

10:00am

 3rd Annual Chili 4 Our Kids Cook-off

When Sat, February 22, 10:00am – 1:30pm

Where Smokin’ Harley-Davidson, 3441 Myer Lee Drive, Winston-Salem, NC, United States (map)

Come Join us for our 3rd Annual Chili 4 our Kids Cook-off! This year we will have 3 different winners for the BEST CHILI in the Triad!! This year we are having TEAMS. Any individual, restaurant or school in the Triad can sign up as a TEAM. It is $20 to register per team on-line, $25 the day of. Tasters and Judges who come to EAT will cost $5 only!!

• 1st Place wins $100 and a trophy
• 2nd place wins $50 and a trophy
• 3rd Place wins $25 and a Trophy
• ALSO the TEAM who raises the MOST MONEY on-line and at the event will be awarded a plaque and winner of “Most Money Raised!”

For more info go to: http://kidsofchildhoodcancer.org/

Chilli 4 Our Kids: http://www.chili4ourkids.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=1099454

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KidsOfChildhoodCancer

Phone: 336-377-9792

E-mail: support@kidsofchildhoodcancer.org

Special Olympics NC Polar Plunge Calendar

Special Olympics NC Polar Plunge Calendar

It’s time to take that wintry leap and warm your heart for Special Olympics! Put on those crazy costumes and go let’s go Freezin’ for a Reason.  The 2014 Polar Plunge for Special Olympics NC season is fast approaching.  Below is a calendar of all the Polar Plunges that benefit SONC and the latest information.   New events will be added as they are finalized, so keep checking back.

We dare you to join us!  Come plunge at the annual Wet N Wild Polar Plunge hosted by the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office and benefitting the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics.  This is always a fun event with  lots of plungers in crazy costumes.  Get your friends together and come wash away the winter blues.  Minimum donation is $50 ($10 for the under 8 year olds).  Gates will open at 10:30 a.m. and the plunge will begin at 1 p.m.  We dare you!

Thanks to all the brave individuals who will take the plunge!

January 11, 2014

• Special Olympics Onslow County Polar Plunge, Onslow Beach, Camp Lejeune (More information)

January 18, 2014

• Key Fitness Parking Lot Polar Plunge – Roanoke Rapids

January 25, 2014

• Zaxby’s Parking Lot Polar Plunge – Clayton
• Pinehurst Police Department Polar Plunge – Pinehurst Marina, Pinehurst

February 1, 2014

• Raleigh Police Department Super Plunge presented by Flow MINI & Raleigh Police Department – North Hills Club, Raleigh
• Winston-Salem Police Department Polar Plunge – Kernersville

February 8, 2014

• Race City Civitan Polar Plunge Benefiting Special Olympics Lake Norman – Moorseville

February 15, 2014

• High Point Police Department Polar Plunge – Triad Sports Center, High Point

February 22, 2014

• NC State University Polar Plunge – Lake Raleigh, NCSU Centennial Campus
• Guilford County Sheriff’s Office Polar Plunge – Wet ‘n Wilde, Greensboro
• Special Olympics Lincoln County Polar Plunge – Denver
• Special Olympics New Hanover County Polar Plunge 5K Walk/Run – Carolina Beach
• Hickory Police Department Polar Plunge – Whittenburg Landing, Hickory

March 1, 2014

• 2014 Blue Nose Polar Plunge Benefiting Special Olympics Rowan County – China Grove

Create a fundraising webpage at Firstgiving.com/sonc to raise donations online.

Contact Dot Kohlbach at 919 719-7662 x 119 with any questions about Polar Plunges

For more info on North Carolina Polar Plunges go to the website @ http://sonc.net/ncpolarplunges/?raypublishing

AN EVENING WITH JOSHUA BELL

Special Event
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
7:30pm

Robert Moody, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin

WAGNER
Prelude to Die Meistersinger
STRAVINSKY
Suite from The Firebird (1919)
BRAHMS
Violin Concerto

Info & Tickets

http://www.wssymphony.org/experience/concerts/special/an-evening-with-joshua-bell/

Often referred to as the “poet of the violin,” Joshua Bell is one of the world’s most celebrated violinists. He continues to enchant audiences with his breathtaking virtuosity, tone of sheer beauty, and charismatic stage presence. His restless curiosity, passion, universal appeal, and multi-faceted musical interests have earned him the rare title of “classical music superstar.” Bell’s most recent challenge is his appointment as the new Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the first person and first American to hold this post since Sir Neville Marriner formed the orchestra in 1958.
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ON YOUTUBE

Joshua Bell performs the second movement of Brahms’ violin concerto in this televised 2009 concert by the Russian National Orchestra under the direction of Mikhail Pletnev.

Kids of Childhood Cancer In Honor of Brandon Ingram

This month’s The Loop-Kernersville Fundraiser will be in Honor of Brandon Ingram – a local 10 year old has been battling Ewing’s Sarcoma since he was diagnosed on November 28, 2011. He relapsed on June 14, 2013 and is now on Hospice care in Winston-Salem.

The financial toll of cancer, the bills, and what costs are yet to come have hit hard. Our foundation Kids of Childhood Cancer has offered a “Brandon’s Warriors” Fundraiser Night at our monthly Loop Night on February 27th.

10% of all proceeds from all orders from anyone who comes will be donated to Brandon, on top of any donations to the foundation. 100% of OUR donations will help Brandon’s family as well.

In Honor of Brandon Ingram Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/422556884543218/?raypublishing

The Loop Pizza on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KernersvilleLoop?raypublishing

The Loop Pizza Website: http://kernersvilleloop.com/

Please come out to show your love and support for Brandon. He will try to come as well if he is able!! For further questions, e-mail support@kidsofchildhoodcancer.org

Duke vs. UNC game postponed due to winter weather

Duke vs. UNC game postponed due to winter weather! #raypublishing

Twin City Kiwanis Club Pancake Jamboree! Friday, February 21

Twin City Kiwanis Club Pancake Jamboree! Friday, February 21  

Friday, February 21 marks the return of one of my favorite events in the community and one of the best places to get people together over food: the Twin City Kiwanis Club’s Pancake Jamboree! This annual event, which draws hundreds of people, will be held at downtown the Benton Convention Center from 6:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

It’s a great experience for which people have queued up for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The appeal of the Jamboree is that it’s one of the few times you might enjoy a down-home meal, family-style, among friends and co-workers-a rarity in the fast-paced world we live in today. The great thing is, you’ll probably run into people you might not have seen all winter and share a little time together. Tickets are $6 for adults, $3 for children under 12. Proceeds benefit the Twin City Kiwanis Clubs community projects.

Visit their Facebook page | Website Page

Benefit For Brandon Ingram

Benefit For Brandon Ingram

Please Make a Difference…..✞ ☼ ♥

http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/benefit-for-brandon-ingram/132425

Get The Latest Updates! ♥♥♥

Brandon’s Warriors ✓ ☺

Update February 5th ✭✭

2:39 PM

Thanks for all your prayers! I think we have finally found the magic medicine to control his pain! He’s finally getting some comfort and once we are sure this one is working he will be getting a pain pump that he can control himself. Please keep the prayers coming! I will update often here as things change. ~April

10:48 AM 

Brandon is being rushed to Brenners Children’s Hospital in severe pain. Please pray HARD!! ~April

The address for cards, etc. is:
Brandon Ingram
1050 Country Trail Drive
Walnut Cove, NC 27052

Brandon relapsed on June 14, 2013 after being sick for weeks. At his 9 month checkup an xray discovered that the cancer had spread to his lungs and chest wall. The tumors were multiple and too extensive for surgery. He was given 6 months to 1 year at best then with only a 7% chance of a cure. After enduring more IV chemo treatments and radiation, his body had enough and it was beginning to cause more harm than good. He is currently receiving Hospice care at home and holistic nutritional therapy in hopes that he can get strong enough and we can find another treatment somewhere else soon. We have been fortunate until this year that insurance paid for his care, but 2014 is different, and all of the holistic therapy has to be paid for by us. A fundraising effort is underway that  we hope can open up new avenues for treatment that we haven’t been able to even consider before!
Your prayers and support are appreciated! ~April

Facebook Page- https://www.facebook.com/BrandonsWarriors

Benefit For Brandon Ingram Page- http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/benefit-for-brandon-ingram/132425