Area Activities For This Weekend
This is another one of those weekends where there is a wide variety of events happening around the area.
There are auditions for the Quincy Area Youth Chorus Concert Choir and Kinderchor Saturday at Christ Lutheran Church in Quincy.
There’s a Downtown Poker Run to benefit Great River Honor Flight in Quincy Saturday, with registration at 10 a.m. in Washington Park.
Melrose Chapel United Methodist Church in Quincy hosts a Red Cross blood drive Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Mission projects will benefit from a rummage and bake sale at First United Methodist Church in Hannibal from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
There’s an open house fund raiser at the Monroe City Inn Saturday, with kid’s activities at 10:30 a.m. and music by Last Dirt Road at 6:30. Proceeds will benefit the local food pantry and next year’s Fourth of July fireworks.
The Pike County Senior Citizen’s Center in Pittsfield hosts bluegrass music from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday.
The public is invited to the Back-2-School Health Fair Saturday from 7 to 11 a.m. on the Hannibal Medical Campus.
The Mid-Summer Extravaganza Northeast Missouri Truck & Tractor Pull is 7 p.m. Saturday at the Marion County Fairgrounds in Palmyra, sponsored by the Palmyra Young Farmers.
The Hannibal Arts Council hosts t he Wild & Wacky Art Adventure, “Renaissance,” Saturday from 9 to noon in Central Park.
The Tri-County 4×4 Club has a 4×4 Mud Run Truck and Car Show in the parking lot of the M.W. Boudreaux Memorial Visitors Center at Mark Twain Lake from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday.
The southern gospel group The Barnett Family will be in concert at 7 p.m. Saturday at Salt River Christian Church east of New London.
And, don’t forget the Corvette show along Main Street in Hannibal Saturday.