• On Friday, October 22, all JM PTA members who present their membership card will be admitted to the JM Football game free. Memberships will be sold for the PTA at the gate that night for $8 (family). Join and get in free to the 10-22-04 Football Game … PTA card must be shown to get in FREE.  

• The Pittsboro Relay for Life planning committee is having a Tailgate party to kick-off the 2005 Relay season on Monday, October 25 at 7m at the Council on Aging. Lots of guest speakers with lots of information. Everyone is invited to come so we can convince you to join our Relay team.

• New Hope Audubon Society meeting Thursday, Nov. 4 at 7 pm at the Totten Center of the NC Botanical Gardens in Chapel Hill. The speaker will be Ronald Sutherland. His topic is “Conservation of Reptiles in NC.” For information, call Judy Murray, 919-942-2985 or Carol Schumann, 919-968-0748. The public is invited.

• The Carolina Mountain Dulcimer Players will meet in the ground floor Community Room at Carol Woods in Chapel Hill on Thursday, October 21 (every third Thursday) at 7:00 pm. Beginner or experts are welcome. First half-hour is a class for beginners. For further information, call Shirley Ray at 919-929-5359 or E-mail ShirleyRay@aol.com.

• w2 Entertainment announces auditions for the musical Down Home Christmas, October 24 from 6 pm - 8 pm at the Sunset Theater in Asheboro. Speaking roles are available for 1 male and 1 female, ages 35-50. Also casting an adult chorus and musicians. Vocalists should bring a Christmas carol to sing with either sheet music or taped accompaniment and be prepared to read from the script. Musicians should either bring their instrument and come prepared to play a Christmas carol or bring a taped recording of them playing. Resumes and headshots are welcome, but not required. Down Home Christmas runs December 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12 at the Sunset Theater.

• The American Legion, Post 93 will not hold its regular meeting on October 28. Instead, they will have their annual Veterans Day Banquet on Tuesday, November 9 at the Dry Dock Restaurant, so please invite your wife or special guest.

• LSU Press author Louis D. Rubin, Jr. will be reading from his book, Surfaces of a Diamond,  at McIntyre’s Bookstore in Pittsboro on Saturday, October 23 at 11 am.  One of the South’s most distinguished scholars of literature and teachers of writing, Rubin lives in Chapel Hill.

• The Bluegrass Experience will be at the Pittsboro Fall Street Fair at 10 am in downtown Pittsboro on Saturday, October 30. Lots of other music,  and entertainment all day long.

• Carrboro Branch Library’s Story Time presents: “My Adventures in Mexico” by the author Nicole Farmer, Saturday, October 23 at 10:30 am. Library is located in the McDougle School’s Media Center at 900 Old Fayetteville Road, Carrboro. For information, call 969-3006.

• Dozens of elaborately carved jack-o-lanterns will be on display throughout Fearrington Village from Friday, October 29 through Sunday, October 31. They will be lit each evening from sundown until 10 pm and are displayed throughout the village center. Friday and Saturday at 7 pm, Spooky Storytime at McIntyres. Enjoy stories to thrill and scare. All ages welcome. Also, local bluegrass band Guilty Pleasures will entertain the ghosts and goblins with a free concert in the village center from 6-8 pm.

• Southern Supreme Gourmet Confections,  Holiday Open House, October 29-31. Visit North Carolina’s largest producer of fruitcakes and watch how they make them and other confections. Sample goodies and enjoy Southern hospitality. Free. 1699 Hoyt Scott Road, Bear Creek, 336-581-3141 or 800-316-3829.

• The Eighth Annual Horse and Mule Days celebration will be held Friday - Sunday, October 29-31 at the Denton Farm Park. Hours are 8 am to 5 pm on Friday and Saturday. Gates open at 9 am on Sunday.

• The Motorcycle Association for Chatham, Western Wake, Lee, Orange, and Alamance Counties meets in Pittsboro and is open to all riders. For information, call 919-392-3939 or www.ChathamCBA.com.