By KARYN JESTER
DavidsonNews.net

Local meetings this week include a bankruptcy seminar Monday, a U.S. Census presentation on Tuesday, and a chance to hear former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, also on Tuesday. Davidson’s Town Board will hold public hearings on the FY2012 budget and a proposal to lengthen the terms of the mayor and commissioners.  In sports this week, there are four Kannapolis Intimidators baseball games against the Lexington Legends Monday to Thursday. Mooresville’s Race City Festival is Saturday, with live entertainment, arts & crafts, and more than 160 vendors. Also on Saturday, is the NC Brewers and Music Festival at Rural Hill in Huntersville. And Sunday is Davidson College graduation on the lawn in front of Chambers Hall.

These events and more below, or in our day-by-day calendar at right. At right on this page, see our movie show times listings for Our Town Cinemas where “Bridesmaids” and “Jane Eyre” opens, joining “Thor,” “Fast Five,” “Win Win,” and “Water for Elephants.” Read the full story

Our weekend calendar in and around Davidson features the NorPac Conference field hockey tournament and basketball games at Davidson College, music, fund-raisers, the final football game of the year for Hough High, and a Sunday afternoon performance in the Music @ St. Alban’s series by New York’s David Glukh Klezmer Ensemble. North Meck High senior Gray Stanback has an opening reception for his graduation project – an exhibit of his drawings on Magnadoodle sketch boards on the theme “Art Meets Autism.”

More information about those events below, or in the clickable day-by-day calendar at right. Also at right, the latest movie times at Our Town Cinemas in Davidson. Read the full story

Looking for something to do this weekend? You’ve got plenty of choices in and around Davidson, from home football openers at Davidson College and Hough High to college soccer and tennis tournaments to weekend’s Hurricane Hugo Juggling Fest and Vaudeville Extravaganza, also at the college. The Amazing Maize Maze – a cornfield maze – opens this weekend at Rural Hill. And the XTERRA trail running series comes to Fisher Farm Park on Sunday.

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A team prepares to try out the Amazing Maize Maze at Rural Hill last year. The cornfield maze opens for another season this weekend. (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)

Our community calendar this week offers many possibilities, from a chance to help plan the layout of a new Lake Davidson Nature Preserve to football, soccer and tennis at Davidson College to weekend’s Hurricane Hugo Juggling Fest and Vaudeville Extravaganza. The Amazing Maize Maze – a cornfield maze – opens this weekend at Rural Hill. And the XTERRA trail running series comes to Fisher Farm Park on Sunday.

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Our Weekend Calendar is shaping up as a good one, despite the mid-summer date. The weekend includes a performance by the Alabama Blues Brothers, a Blues Brothers tribute band, in a Concert on the Green Friday. Davidson Community Players’ Connie Co. teen workshop performs a children’s theater show called “The Connie Company: Wild, Woolly and Wonderful” at several locations. Saturday brings the weekly Davidson Farmer’s Market, the Lake Norman Excursion bike ride, and a Shoes of Hope free shoe giveaway at Ada Jenkins Center.

“Sorcerer’s Apprentice” opens at Our Town Cinemas. And in Mooresville Saturday, the Movies on Main series presents an outdoor screening of “Avatar” and Lake Norman Fear minor league football team hosts the Asheville Grizzlies.

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Fund-raisers this week in and around Davidson include a Saturday 5K race starting on the Village Green that will raise money for the Free Clinic of Our Towns, a Rake-A-Thon for the college’s Habitat for Humanity chapter, and a Sunday sale by Main Street shops to benefit the Salvation Army’s Women’s Shelter. Read the full story