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Anson entertainment: Final Summer Jam, festivals, Ag Expo & Fair, bike ride, music on the square, hunt tournament, and more

• Friday, August 6 -- Smokebreak, an Ansonville area band, will bring the Summer Jam series to East Wade Street for a 7-10 p.m. concert, which will be the final concert in the series. Bring a lawn chair. For more information, call 704.695.1644 or 704.694.2213.

• Saturday, September 11 -- The Town of Polkton will hold its annual "Fun Day" from noon until 9 p.m. A bike show, car show and pet contest, as well as food, music and dancing, are scheduled. For more information, call 704.272.7463 or e-mail Donna Stanley at freddygirl@windstream.net.

• Saturday, September 25 -- The Town of Peachland will host "Music on the Square," featuring the Village Green Band, from 6-10 p.m.. For more information, call 704.272.7781 or visit click here.

• Friday, September 24 & Saturday, Sept. 25 -- The 2010 Anson Ag Expo and Fair will be held at South Piedmont Community College's Lockhart-Taylor Center, 514 N. Washington St., Wadesboro, and at the Anson County Cooperative Extension Center, 501 McLaurin St., Wadesboro. Friday's offerings will begin at 6 p.m. in the Lockhart-Taylor Center with the annual Youth Livestock Show in the parking area. Portions of the annual Expo and entertainment also will be provided in the Ingram Room. Saturday's activities will run from 9 a.m. until 2 .pm., with the rest of the Youth Livestock Show and more local entertainment in the LTC parking area and the Ingram Room. The County Fair will be at the Cooperative Extension Center. All events are free to the public. For more information and/or an official rules and regulations booklet, call 704.694.2015.

• Saturday, October 2 -- The Town of Morven's "October Festival" will get underway at 10 a.m. with an opening ceremony. Entertainment, arts and crafts booths, music and a parade are scheduled. For more information and/or a vendor application, call the Morven Town Hall at 704.851.9321.

• Saturday, October 9 -- The annual "People Fest" celebration will be held in historic uptown Wadesboro, beginning at 9 a.m. Details on the festival are to be announced. For more information, call 704.694.5171.

• Saturday, October 9 -- A 5K Run/Walk is scheduled in conjunction with People Fest in uptown Wadesboro. Details to be announced. For more information, call 704.694.2213.

• Saturday, November 6 -- The fifth annual Discover Anson Bike Ride offers 30-, 50- and 70-mile routes in the southern Piedmont and the foothills of the Uwharrie Mountains. The entry fee is $25 per rider ($20 if entered by Friday, October 15). A downloadable registration form is available at www.discoveranson.com/bikeride. On the day of the bike ride, registration begins at 8 a.m. at Ansonville Elementary School (located across U.S. 52 from the Ansonville Volunteer Fire Department). The ride will receive the "green flag" at 9 a.m. For more information, call the Anson County Chamber of Commerce at 704.694.4181.

• Saturday, November 6 -- The annual Ansonville Homecoming Celebration festivities will feature arts, crafts, specialty and information booths; food and entertainment; and the annual pre-Thanksgiving/pre-Christmas parade (at 3 p.m.). The Ansonville Volunteer Fire Department's annual barbecue fundraiser will include beef, chicken and pork plates.

• Friday, November 26 & Saturday, November 27 -- The 13th annual Big-Game Hunt Tournament will be held. Deer taken in Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly and Union counties are eligible for cash prizes, but officially must be weighed in at the Ansonville Volunteer Fire Department between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. each day. For more information and/or hunt rules, call the Anson County Chamber of Commerce at 704.694.4181 or click here.

Public fishing area at Blewett Falls to be closed for a while