Feb. 22

•Volunteer Income Tax Assistance will be offered from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Bladen County Public Library located at 111 N. Cypress St. in Elizabethtown. VITA prepares and e-files income tax returns for people with disabilities, and low or moderate incomes, as well as elders or military servicemembers. Information can be obtained by calling 910-862-6990.

March 3-5

•NICA Race at Brown’s Creek Mountain Trail*

March 4

•Elizabethtown will have the first event for its 250th Anniversary. The event will recognize Founders Day and will celebrate the years 1773-1823*

•Lu Mil Vineyard will host an all-you-can-eat fish fry for $20 at the General Store from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. The event will be located at 438 Suggs-Taylor Road in Elizabethtown. Proceed will go to the Dublin Peanut Festival.

March 7

•A blood drive will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Bladen County EMS Headquarters located at 292 Bengreen Industrial Pk Rd in Elizabethtown NC.

March 8

•Volunteer Income Tax Assistance will be offered from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Bladen County Public Library located at 111 N. Cypress St. in Elizabethtown. VITA prepares and e-files income tax returns for people with disabilities, and low or moderate incomes, as well as elders or military servicemembers. Information can be obtained by calling 910-862-6990.

March 21

•Volunteer Income Tax Assistance will be offered from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Bladen County Public Library located at 111 N. Cypress St. in Elizabethtown. VITA prepares and e-files income tax returns for people with disabilities, and low or moderate incomes, as well as elders or military servicemembers. Information can be obtained by calling 910-862-6990.

March 24-25

•Old Fashioned Planter’s Day. Call 910-850-1525 for more information*

April 1

•Elizabethtown Baptist Church will hold a job fair and veterans’ stand down from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It will be held in the church’s gymnasium, located at 1800 W. Broad Street in Elizabethtown.

•Veteran’s Standdown at Elizabethtown Baptist Church*

April 8

•Lu Mil Wine Run 5K will be at 9 a.m. at Lu Mil Vineyard, located at 438 Suggs-Taylor Road in Elizabethtown. The registration fee is $25 through Feb. 24 and $60 afterward.

April 15-16

•US MTB Race at Brown’s Creek Mountain Bike Trail*

May 6

•Second 250th Anniversary event for Elizabethtown, which will celebrate the Civil War area*

ONGOING

•If you love arts and crafts, photography, etc., please contact Torie Nealy, curator for Bladenboro visual arts council at vgnealy94@gmail.com to display your works, join the council, become an art club member or to participate in fun events that will be planned in the near future. This is a nonprofit organization. Any donations to the visual arts council will be greatly appreciated.

•Low-income Bladen County residents who want to get their pets spayed or neutered through A Shelter Friend’s Low-income Spay/Neuter Program can call 910-645-2297 for information and sign-up. Share this number with your friends and neighbors who are producing unwanted litters of puppies and kittens! Don’t Wait. Stop this cycle… do it now.