Football, Fundraisers and Fun: The Week Ahead

Remember to be mindful of children as you commute this week.  Pickens County students return to school Tuesday.  Be mindful of the heavier traffic near schools and factor that in to your commute to work.

Have you visited the Easley Farmers Market on a Tuesday yet? There's lots to see and buy, from fresh fruits and veggies and baked goods to handmade items to hot meals. There's only a couple more weeks for the Tuesday market hours, so visit while you can! Tuesday market hours are 5-8pm. Saturday market hours are 8am - noon. The market is located in front of Easley City Hall.

August 23 will see the Green Wave take on the Blue Flame in the teams’ first game of the season. Easley hosts Pickens for this year’s rivalry. The game begins at 8pm. 

In addition to facing off on the field, Easley and Pickens are vying to see which school can raise the most money for Pickens County Meals on Wheels. During halftime of the rivalry game, the winner of the Sam Wyche Food Fight Bowl fundraising effort for Meals on Wheels.

To find out how you can help the fundraising effort and support your school, visit www.pcmow.org.

On August 24, several Easley businesses are throwing a Block Party. The event will be held at 1035 S. Pendleton Street from 11am – 4pm.

Upstate School Spirit and a number of other Easley businesses are teaming up for a Back-to-School Block Party 11am – 4pm Saturday at 1035 South Pendleton Street.

The party is free.

Vendors include Coyote Coffee, Pure Purse Obsession, Skin’s, Subway,  The UPS Store, Lollypop Lady,  Subway,  Butterfly Ministry for Girls, Paper Party Place,  Sport Clips, Easley Patch,  Origami Owl,  DJ N-Fa-Miss, the Easley Police Department and Easley Fire Department.

The party will feature door prizes, face painting, balloons, games, Child ID kits, fire truck, a police car and more.

Local booster clubs, football players, cheerleaders, beauty queens and bands will make special appearances during the block party.

Sport Clips will be spray-painting hair during the event. There will also be a Corn Hole competition.

An annual fundraising event will be held Saturday morning. 

Approximately 460 area children received shoes this year courtesy of the MAC Ride and Run, Easley First Baptist Church,  5 Point Fellowship and Fleet Feet Sports in Greenville. In total, more than 1,700 pairs of shoes have been distributed since the event’s inception in 2008. A portion of the funds are donated to Hope Unlimited, a missions organization committed to the physical, educational, and spiritual needs of Brazil’s street children.

The Mission Action Challenge originated in 2008 when a group of cyclists named the event in honor of Mac Lawton, a community leader, founder of the 567 Club for Boys, and recipient of the Order of the Silver Crescent, South Carolina’s highest honor for outstanding achievements and community contributions. Mr. Lawton lost his battle with prostate cancer in January of this year.

The MAC Ride starts at 7:30am. The MAC Run starts at 8:30am.

For more information and to register, visit rideformac.com

You have three more chances to catch “Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming” at the Foothills Playhouse.

The show is the third in the Sanders family saga, a series about a traveling Southern Gospel band that goes from church to church preaching and singing bluegrass gospel tunes. This part of the series is set in 1945 at the end of World War II.

“Prosperity is just around the corner and from the vantage point of the 21st Century we can see the innocence that is now gone,” says the show’s producer Maurice Reed. “This play is full of fun, sometimes tetchy family dynamics and, best of all, some really good toe-tapping feel-good music.”

The show will run Friday, August 23 and Saturday August 24 at 8pm and Sunday, August 25 at 3pm.

For ticket information call 864-855-1817, go to www.showtix4u.com or email the Playhouse at foothillsplayhouse@att.net.