Published: 12:00 AM, Thu Feb 04, 2010
Students step it up in contest
Rodger Mullen
There will be no shortage of youthful energy at Overhills High School Saturday.
The school, at 2495 Ray Road in Spring Lake, is hosting a Winter Fest Step Show at 5 p.m. Ten teams from middle and high schools in Cumberland and surrounding counties will compete. The teams perform elaborately choreographed dance numbers. The best teams will advance to a state competition in April at Triton High School in Harnett County.
Tickets for the show are $6 in advance, $8 at the door. Call 436-1436, extension 3116.
Cheap reads
The books are back! The Friends of the Cumberland County Library are holding the first used book sale in more than a year. The sale is Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Headquarters Library, 300 Maiden Lane.
The group used to hold quarterly sales, but a 2008 fire at the library shut them down temporarily. The money raised is used to bring in authors and for summer reading programs.
Thousands of books will be for sale, most priced at no more than 50 cents. Magazines, CDs, DVDs and other materials will also be offered.
Visitors should enter on the library's lower level, by Cross Creek. Only cash or checks will be accepted. Call 483-7727, ext. 119.
Symphony history
The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra marks Black History Month with a pair of concerts this weekend.
Saturday at 8 p.m., the symphony performs William Grant Still's "Afro-American Symphony," along with a suite from Stravinsky's "Firebird," at Fayetteville State University's Seabrook Auditorium.
Sunday, the symphony performs the same program at 3 p.m. at Owens Auditorium at Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst.
Tickets for the Seabrook Auditorium concert are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and the military and $8 for students with identification. Admission to the Sandhills Community College concert is free. Call 433-4690 or go to www.fayettevillesymphony.org.
Staff writer Rodger Mullen can be reached at mullenr@fayobserver.com or 486-3561.