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The power of you ™ To view our videos, you need to: 1. Enable JavaScript. 2. Install Adobe Flash. Install now. Then come back here and refresh the page. A sure sign of spring unfolds this weekend in Fayetteville as the annual Dogwood Festival gets under way. It is the 27th year for the popular arts and music festival near downtown and organizers say this year’s event will be bigger and definitely better than before. An estimated 150,000 people enjoyed the festival last year. With beautiful weather predicted for the weekend and some big changes in the festival lineup, organizers hope to pass last year’s record. This year, the festival will expand back to Hay Street, growing beyond the immediate Festival Park area, and for the first time, there will be a third musical headliner added to the schedule. The festival opens up Friday night with a Fourth Friday celebration being held by the arts council. Vendors will set up along Hay Street and have displays at the arts council featuring art from around the community. “Every level of artist from every age from Fort Bragg and Pope to all over Cumberland County, so there are probably about 80 pieces of artwork on display,” Kellie Tomita, of the arts council, said. The headline musical act Friday night is the southern rock group, 38 Special. The free concert is being held at Festival Park at the corner of Ray and Rowan streets. It starts at 9 p.m. and will be followed by fireworks. On Saturday night, the rock group Collective Soul will be playing at 9 p.m., and on Sunday, R&B singer, Ray J will wrap up the festival at with a 6 p.m. concert.
The Fayetteville Police Department is hosting a fund-raiser behind the police department with officers and the police chief climbing into a dunk tank and taking a pie in the face in the name of charity. Money raised will go to the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. Crime Stoppers is hosting its annual fund-raiser in front of Harris Teeter by selling barbecue.