The event will feature speakers, praise and worship music, the Emmett Scott Soul Steppers, a children's carnival, a bicycle rodeo, train rides and an obstacle course demonstrating the operation of a vehicle while under-the-influence.

Free prizes, services and items such as haircuts, meals, groceries, clothes and more will be given away. A local fire department will provide blood pressure checks and will demonstrate to children what they should do in case of a fire.

Organizations participating will be Operation Help One Another, Piedmont Healthcare System, Region II Adoptions, the Teen Health Center, Safe Passage, Keystone Substance Abuse Services, local churches and more.

Community organizations involved in the Weed and Seed community project are the city of Rock Hill, Urban Rock Hill Weed and Seed, Redemption World Fellowship, God's Outreach, Power Team Inc. and Care Task Force.

For details, call Roger Moon, outreach pastor, Redemption World Fellowship and U-Turn Outreach Ministries, at 684-7178.

Dinner theater show planned in York

A dinner theater performance of the comedic murder mystery "Bel Canto" will be at 2 p.m. May 11 and 18 and at 7 p.m. May 12 and 15 through 17 at the Palmetto Room, 22 N. Congress St., York. Hometown Promotions has teamed up with the Palmetto Room to present the play.

The May 12 performance is a special benefit for Hospice and Community Care. The play is set in the 1940s on opening night at the opera and features a murdered diva, a harboiled gumshoe and an array of unusual suspects.

Dinner will be an Italian buffet and includes beverage and dessert. Tickets for the dinner and show are $35 per person. Show tickets are $12. Reservations are required. For reservations or details, call 628-7970 or e-mail lpfiz@bellsouth.net.

Downtown concert is planned in York

Downtown Live will be from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. beginning May 15 in downtown York, in the parking lot of Whiteside Cleaners and Uniform Rental, 5 E. Madison St., York.

The event is an outdoor community concert series. Performing will be Dave Lambert and the Carolina Rails, a five-piece group playing country and rock favorites.

Food and beverages will be sold. Rain date will be May 22. The Greater York Chamber of Commerce and South Carolina Bank and Trust of the Piedmont are sponsors.

Fewell Park center will host Ansel Couch

Ansel Couch will perform at Fewell Park Recreation Center's first summer concert at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the park, 1204 Alexander Road, Rock Hill. Couch is a singer, guitarist and songwriter.

Participants may bring chairs and a picnic. Admission is free. Rock Hill Parks, Recreation and Tourism is sponsoring the event. For details visit www.rockhillrocks.com. Musicians who are interested in scheduling a concert for the series may call 329-5645.

Prominent printmaker will speak at woman's club

Gary T. Kerr, an internationally known printmaker, will speak at the Woman's Club of Rock Hill at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the clubhouse, 607 Aiken Ave., Rock Hill.

Wine and hors d' oeuvres will be served at 6 p.m. Kerr is president of Fine Art Impressions photography and printmaking studios in Davidson, N.C.

He will speak about giclee, an archival digital printmaking technique he used to reproduce the Joyce Netzler watercolor of the pergola and gardens being restored by the club. The limited edition prints are numbered, signed by the artist, matted and ready for framing. Prints will be $75 each at the event.

Kerr is recognized in the national and international fine art marketplace for his work replicating original art to museum-quality standards. In March, Kerr reproduced a 17th-century painting from the permanent collection in the Louvre in Paris. The work was artist Simon Vouet's "Prudence Leading Peace and Abundance," an oil on canvas that dates to 1645.