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Sign up for next week's Festival of Trees Sparkling Champagne Gala and Riverfest Seafood Festival, and get in line for a choir's 42nd season opener and the city's upcoming health challenge.
BY THE OBSERVER STAFF
Champagne gala kicks off tree fest
The Guild of the Museum of Arts and Sciences will kick off its ninth-annual Festival of Trees 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, with its Sparkling Champagne Gala, featuring holiday décor for sale and food from local restaurants.
Tabletop Christmas trees donated and decorated by guild members will be up throughout Root Hall, at the museum, 352 S. Nova Road. Larger trees are donated by local businesses and will be up for silent auction.
The festival ends Nov. 30. Ormond restaurants in attendance will be Pepper’s Mexican Cantina, Blau Mediterranean Grill, Fusion 43 at Rose Villa, La Fiesta, Lulu’s Oceanside Grill and more.
The reception is $45 per person, with reservations requested. The festival is open with admission to the museum. Call 236-9810.
Riverfest is coming: Nov. 16, 17
Ormond Beach’s free, fifth-annual Riverfest Seafood Festival will take over Rockefeller Gardens Park 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, with music, plenty to eat and more than 5,000 visitors expected.
Also taking place 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, the fest will feature a dozen food vendors offering seafood in every form — raw oysters to shrimp pad Thai. There will also be a pig roast and a hamburger/hot dog wagon.
Black Crow Media will sponsor the event’s newest attraction: a cooking stage, where demonstrations will take place from headliner Heather McPherson, cookbook author and the Orlando Sentinel’s food editor.
Local musicians will play Saturday, and A1A — The Official and Original Jimmy Buffett Tribute Band will perform Sunday. There will also be fishing and paddling lessons, a kids zone and a charity rubber duck race.
Email [email protected], or call 492-2938.
Bel Canto to perform for 42nd year
The first choral performance of the Bel Canto Singers’ 42nd season will take place 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, at Central Baptist Church, 152 E. Fairview Ave., under the direction of Norris Williams and along with members of the Orlando Philharmic Orchestra.
The group will present Mozart’s “Requiem,” for $10 entry.
Visit belcantodaytona.org, or call 566-6390.
This year, resolve to get fit before the ball drops
Do you live or work in Ormond Beach? Then you have no excuse — you're eligible to sign up now to join the Mayor’s Health and Fitness Challenge for a 12-week wellness journey that starts the beginning of January.
Starting and ending with measuring participants' weight, blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose, the city’s health challenge also offers three months of unlimited access to the YMCA Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays with entry; more than 40 free classes at local gyms; special menu items at participating restaurants; free cooking classes; nutrition tips, health coaching, a T-shirt; and, discount rates at gyms.
There are two tracks in the challenge: a more in-depth training track, and the traditional track. Awards, including cash prizes, will be given in both tracks.
Call 676-3323.
