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Landmark Park has got it going on this weekend!

Bet our resident bee guru "catfish" can be spotted at this one …

Honey Extraction Workshop
June 27th, 9am
Landmark park

This workshop is open to the public and free with paid gate admission. Guests will have a chance to watch as honey from the hives at Landmark Park is extracted and uncapped by hand. Cappings from the honey extraction are used to make soap, lip balm and lotion. Nothing from the hive is wasted. Honey and other products will be on sale at the park on the day of the workshop. Urban Regional Extension Agent Philip Carter hopes the workshop will raise awareness of the importance of honeybees. Presented by the Wiregrass Beekeepers and the Alabama Cooperative Extension System.

Scoot from there on over to get an ice cream cone and watch Schmitz and Seagle in milk-off.  

Old Fashion Ice Cream Social
June 27th, 5-8pm
Landmark Park

Dothan mayoral candidates Keith Seagle and Mike Schmitz, along with several other candidates for the Dothan City Commission, will compete for the title of “best milker” at Landmark Park’s Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social on June 27 from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.

The milking contest will begin at 6 p.m. Each contestant will take turns milking a Holstein cow, provided by Lewis Dairy. The politician who can milk the most in three minutes will win the contest.

The Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social is annual summertime family favorite, held in observation of National Dairy Month. Other entertainment will include music, butter churning, ice cream making, wagon rides, a cakewalk, old-fashioned games, an exhibit of antique dairy implements and more. A 32-foot Mobile Dairy Classroom, sponsored by the Alabama Dairy Farmers, will demonstrate the modern milking process with a fully operational milking parlor.

Park volunteers will be scooping FREE single dip cones of chocolate, vanilla, and butter pecan ice cream, plus homemade vanilla, handmade on an old fashioned wooden churn. Or, visitors can purchase a special treat in the Martin Drugstore. The Shelley General Store, next door to the Martin Drugstore, will also be open, selling old country items.

If watching kids smoke your best score won't give you an inferiority complex, then you need to check out the final stretch of the Press Thornton.

Press Thornton Future Masters Golf Tournament
June 20th-27th, 7:00am – 6:00pm.
Dothan Country Club
http://www.futuremastersgolf.com/

One of the most traditionally rich junior tournaments in the world heads into the final weekend. Find out who will join an impressive list of golfing greats who have competed in the tournament such as past U.S. Open champions Hubert Green and Jerry Pate, Masters winner Larry Mize, PGA champions Bob Tway, Mark Brooks and Shawn Micheel, and British Open winner Ben Curtis.

And if amateur golf is just not your bag, check out this purse…

Chamber Annual Golf Tournament,
June 26th
Ozark Country Club

Held at the Ozark Country Club’s Panther Creek Golf Course. This is a 3-person scramble with lots of prizes and a chance to win $1 Million and/or an automobile. Call 774-9321 for details.

For our arts lovers... Patti Rutland is back….

Patti Rutland Jazz Reunion
June 27, 7:30 pm, June 28, 2:00 pm, June 29, 7:30 pm
Dothan Opera House
1-877-PRJ-5678 or 615-3175
www.pattirutlandjazz.com

Patti Rutland reunites with former company members from 25 years of work and in the processs blends the past with the present as some of PRJ’s most successful choreography is revisited and adapted by fresh new eyes.

…Featured Players takes a curtain call on "Jack and the Beanstalk"….

Featured Players “Jack and the Beanstalk”
June 27th, 7:00pm
Featured Players Theatre Co.
http://www.freewebs.com/featuredplayers/

The final show of the Children's Theatre production, "Jack And The Beanstalk" is a new twist on a children's favorite. Three actors are preparing to perform the classic production, when a Magic Keeper intervenes, turning the actors into the characters they represent. Will Rick and Bob remain Jack and The Ogre? Will Debbie forever be a cow? Find out in this delightful production that will entertain adults and children alike.

…and Eufaula says “so you Dothan folks think you know arts”?

7th Annual Eufaula Street art and Music Festival
June 27th, 9:00am – 5:00pm
East Broad Street, Eufaula

The  streets of downtown Eufaula will be blocked off and filled with live music and fabulous art from the southern states.  For more information, call 334.616.6170

And not to discriminate against our couch potatoes, here are the new movies for this weekend…

My Sister’s Keeper (view website)
A young girl, conceived to provide a donor match for her leukemia-stricken older sister, seeks to earn medical emancipation from her parents

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (view website)
Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf return to join with the Autobots' battle against the evil Decepticons.

And if you're so dang sorry you won't even leave the house…

NASCAR
Loudon -June 28th, 12:30pm
TNT

Leaders
1--Tony Stewart
2--Jeff Gordon
3--Jimmie Johnson
4--Kurt Busch
5--Carl Edwards

See you around town!