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november 2008
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If you would like additional information about an event, please use the contact information listed with the event. Event details are listed to the best of our knowledge and may be subject to change.
01
NOV
Duration: Saturday, November 1 | Registration - 8:30am; Walk - 10am
Venue: Festival Plaza at Witherspoon
Event Type: Walk
Contact: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention - Brooke Hardin, 502.718.1065 or Gage Donahue - 502.767.6155
Event Website: www.outofthedarkness.org/
This year thousands of men and women will walk in over 100 communities across the United States, each contributing their voices to break the silence surrounding suicide.
By walking in the 2008 Out of the Darkness Community Walks to benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), you will be walking with thousands of people nationwide to raise money for AFSP's vital research and education programs to prevent suicide and save lives, increase national awareness about depression and suicide, and assist survivors of suicide loss.
Registering is simple, just go to http://www.outofthedarkness.org/, select the community walk nearest you, and complete the form.
Admission:
Christmas Tree Lane at Waterfront Park
28
NOV
Duration: Friday, November 28 - Christmas | 8am-8pm daily
Venue: Christmas Tree Lane (Witherspoon between Preston & Floyd)
Event Type: Holiday tree/greenery/decorations vendors
Contact: WDC | 502.574.3768
Event Website:
Celebrate the holidays
by visiting Christmas Tree Lane and purchasing your tree and holiday greenery at Waterfront Park. For the fifth year, Tommy Thompson and Gary Jecker will start selling on Friday, November 28 and continue until Christmas Eve or until everything is gone, whichever comes first.
Trees and greenery selections will include Scotch Pine, White Pine, Frazier Fir, Balsam Fir, Douglass Fir, and Spruce varieties from North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nova Scotia and Vermont. Other items include wreaths, door charms, small trees, and garland.
Christmas Tree Lane is located on both sides of Witherspoon Street between Preston and Floyd Street. Free parking is available for customers along Witherspoon Street, in the Green Parking Lot at Waterfront Park (underneath 1-64 overpass near corner of River Road & Preston), and in the surface parking lot across from the Great Lawn.
Hours of operation: 8:00am - 8:00pm daily, Friday, November 21 through Christmas.
Admission: FREE!