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Find events in your area via WECT's app

Find events in your area via WECT's app

SOUTHEASTERN NC (WECT) – If you’re looking for something fun to do around town at the touch of a button, check this out -- WECT Communities events are now featured on the WECT mobile app for smartphones and some tablets. 

To find out what’s happening in your area, click here to download the app for your iPhone, Android or Blackberry device.

Last varsity baseball game of season for East, West Bladen happens May 3

Last varsity baseball game of season for East, West Bladen happens May 3

BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – If you’re a big baseball fan, you won’t want to miss East and West Bladen High School’s last varsity games of the season – the schools play against each other Friday, May 3, according to the schools’ websites.

The game will take place at West Bladen at 6 p.m.

West Bladen High is located at 1600 N. Carolina 410 in Bladenboro.

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Get ready for the Crazy Color Run

Get ready for the Crazy Color Run

BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – The Crazy Color Run will take place this weekend in Bladenboro.

The event will take place Saturday, April 27 at 10:00 a.m. at the Town Hall of Bladenboro, but the deadline to register was April 17.

Runners will be blasted with different colored powder at each mile marker or this 5K event.

White T-shirts are required for the start of the race and sunglasses or goggles are suggested.

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Registration underway for upcoming 5K in Elizabethtown

Registration underway for upcoming 5K in Elizabethtown

BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – The Praying for Crystal Abbott Coffman Foundation is hosting a 5k event in May to help raise money to support Coffmann.

According to the foundation, Coffman suffered a severe spinal cord injury last year while heading to her home in Leland. She swerved to avoid a deer that jumped out in front of her vehicle, ran off the road, and lost control.

The 5k for Crystal: Run, Walk, and Roll (wheelchairs) event will be held at the Industrial Park in Elizabethtown on May 11, 2013 starting at 9:30 a.m.

Pre-registration is underway for participants for the event.

Master Gardeners hosting plant sale

Master Gardeners hosting plant sale

BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – The Master Gardeners of Bladen County will be hosting a plant sale next weekend, according to the Bladen Journal.

It will be held Saturday, April 27.

The event will take place at the Cape Fear Farmer’s Market in Elizabethtown starting at 9 a.m.

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Astronaut Curt Brown to be inducted into Hall of Fame

Astronaut Curt Brown to be inducted into Hall of Fame

BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – Houston, we have liftoff! Elizabethtown native and astronaut Curt Brown will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. The ceremony will take place on Saturday at the Kennedy Space Center visitor complex.

Brown will be joined by Eileen Collins and Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., the first time two females have been inducted at the same time.

Kelly Spring Festival kicks off soon

Kelly Spring Festival kicks off soon

BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) - The Kelly Spring Festival will be held on Saturday, April 27 and WECT’s Rob Demetrious will be the grand marshal.

The parade kickoffs at 11 a.m., traveling down N.C. Hwy. 53 to Centerville Baptist Church.

Natmoore Road and Frenches Creek will be closed during the parade.