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Weekend Outlook October 2, 2009

Article | | By Michele Skalicky
  • Tour a cave by boat
  • Listen to music
  • Watch college sports
  • Camp
  • Learn new skills
  • See a movie
  • Attend a fall festival
  • Walk for a cause
  • Dance
  • Go birdwatching
  • Visit the zoo
  • Hike
  • Find bargains
  • Jeremy Chesman will perform a carillon concert today (10/2) at noon at Meyer Library on the Missouri State campus. Take your lawn chair or blanket and maybe your lunch and enjoy the performance.
  • Watch the MO State softball team take on Evangel University at 6 tonight (10/2) at Killian Softball Complex. The team will face MO State softball alumni tomorrow night (10/3) at 6. For tickets, 836-7678.
  • Camp out at Ritter Springs Park tonight (10/2) with the Springfield-Greene County Park Board’s Outdoor Initiatives program. To register, 833-8647.
  • Learn how to geocache and how to cook in Dutch ovens at programs tomorrow (10/3) at Ritter Springs Park. For more information, 833-8647.
  • It’s movie night tonight at the Community Center in Ozark. Take your own chairs and watch “Kung Fu Panda.” Admission is free.
  • The Ozark Craft Fair is today thru Sunday (10/2-10/4) in Finley River Park. To find out more, visit ozarkcraftfair.com.
  • A Fall Bluegrass Festival and Farmers Market are on the Ozark Square tomorrow (10/3) from noon to 10 pm. Take lawn chairs.
  • Forsyth’s Harvest Moon Festival and Car Show is tomorrow (10/3) in Shadow Rock Park. If you’d like more information, visit www.forsythmissouri.net.
  • Neosho’s Autumn Harvest Fall Festival is tomorrow (10/3). There will be a 5k Run and Fun Walk, crafts, food, live performances, a pet contest, inflatable rides and more. For details, visit www.neoshomo.org.
  • Republic will host “Pumpkin Daze” tomorrow (10/3) from 8 am to 5 pm in downtown Republic.
  • The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation will host the Springfield Great Strides walk tomorrow morning (10/3) at 10 at Rutledge-Wilson Farm Park. Registration is at 9. For details, 1-800-727-1464.
  • Learn about Springfield’s long tradition as a baseball town tomorrow afternoon (10/3) at 2 at the Library Center. To learn more about the program “The Springfield Cardinals: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” call 881-6833.
  • The public is invited to join the Missouri State biology department to learn about the legacy of George Melendez Wright tomorrow (10/3) from 11 to 1 at Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield. For more information, 836-4681.
  • Wilson’s Creek National Battefield will host a one-day Living History Symposium tomorrow (10/3) from 9 to 3 at the Visitor Center. To learn more, call the Battlefield at 732-2662.
  • A Contra Dance will start tomorrow night (10/3) at 7:30 at Franciscan Villa, 620 W. Scott, in Springfield. Lessons will begin at 7. For more information, visit www.springfieldcontra.org.
  • Go birdwatching at prairies in Southwest Missouri tomorrow (10/3) with members of the Greater Ozarks Audubon Society. Meet at 7 in the morning on the Northeast side of the North Lowe’s parking lot at Highway 13 and Norton Rd. For more information, call Charley Burwick at 860-9505.
  • If you plan to visit Dickerson Park Zoo this weekend, remember that they have new hours for winter. The zoo is open 10 am to 4 pm, weather permitting. The café and train ride have also begun seasonal operations. For more information, call 833-1570.
  • The Missouri Literary Festival is today thru Sunday (10/2-10/4) at Hammons Field and the Creamery Arts Center in downtown Springfield. For more information, visit www.missouriliteraryfestival.org.
  • A Memory Walk to benefit the Southwest Missouri Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association will be held tomorrow (10/3) in Atchley Park in Lebanon. If you’d like more information, call 886-2199 or visit www.alz.org/swmo.
  • The Strafford Fire Department will host an open house tomorrow (10/3) from noon to 5 at Fire Station 3, at 121 S. Washington. There will be games and prizes for kids, fire truck tours and more.
  • The Springfield-Greene County Park Board presents the Springfield Urban Challenge tomorrow (10/3) at Cooper Tennis Complex. Teams compete against each other in a race through and around Springfield. For more information, 837-5900 or www.parkboard.org.
  • Find your way through a corn maze at the Rutledge-Wilson Farm Park in Springfield. The maze is open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in October. For more information, visit www.parkboard.org and click on “special events.”
  • The Springfield-Conservation Nature Center will hold a naturalist-guided hike tomorrow morning (10/3) at 9. You don’t have to register.
  • Ozark Teen Challenge will host a motorcycle ride tomorrow (10/3) to benefit the 15-month residential program for boys 12 to 17 who are struggling with addictions and other issues. The 70-mile ride will start at Cruisin’ 66 Cycles on Glenstone tomorrow morning at 9:30. For registration information, call 272-3784.
  • The Mother’s of Multiples Club will host a fall sale tomorrow (10/3) from 8 to noon at High Street Baptist Church in Springfield.
  • Step Out, a walk to fight diabetes, will be held tomorrow (10/3) beginning at Cox Health’s Wheeler Heart and Vascular Center. Registration starts at 8:30, and the walk starts at 10. For more information, visit www.stepout.diabetes.org.
  • The MO State men’s soccer team will host Eastern Illinois University at 1 Sunday (10/4) at Plaster Sports Complex.
  • Sequiota Cave boat tours will be offered for $5 a person Sunday (10/4) from 12:30 to 4:30 at Sequiota Park. You can register when you arrive.
  • It’s Primitive Skills Day Sunday (10/4) from 1 to 4 at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center. See demonstrations in flint knapping, bow and arrow construction, bead work, fire making and more. For details call the Nature Center at 888-4237.
  • The 17th Annual Springfield Area CROP Hunger Walk is Sunday (10/4) at 2 pm beginning at Phelps Grove Park. For more information, 860-9303 or visit www.springfieldcropwalk.com.
  • The exhibit “Her Story: Greene County Women’s History Unchained” is at the History Museum for Springfield-Greene County through tomorrow (10/3). Hours tomorrow are 10:30 to 4:30. For more information, call the museum at 864-1976.