"Fridays in the Park" Free Summer Concert Series

Held monthly at Centennial Park between the months of May and September from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Roanoke Rapids Parks and Recreation, Halifax County Tourism, the Roanoke Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Halifax County Arts Council are proud to present this Summer Concert Series at Centennial Park. Grab your family, bring your lounge chair and join us for an evening of relaxing family music! Below are the dates and performers for 2012:

May 18  - Steve Owens and Summertime Beach Music (1100 block of the Avenue)

June 15 – Jashaun Peele and Friends (Centennial Park)

July 20 – Willie Peebles Band (Centennial Park)

August 17 – Natty Boh (Centennial Park)

September 21 – Redublic (Centennial Park)

Below are the sports camps that we are offering this summer. Call 533-2847 for more information, or come into the TJ Davis Recreation Center to register.

RRHS Volleyball Camp  June 26-28, 1:30-4:00pm at RRHS gym. Rising 3^rd - 8^th grade, $40.  Instructor: Holly Harris.  Bring your own knee pads.

Basketball Camp: July 9-12 for both boys and girls.  $35.  Instructor: Coach Rook. 

Session I:  9am-12pm rising 3^rd - 6^th graders

Session II: 1pm-4pm rising 7^th - 9^th graders

TJ Davis Recreation Center hours:

Monday - Thursday: 8:30am-7pm: Open Gym

Friday: 8:30am-5pm: Open Gym

Saturday: 1pm-5pm: Open Gym

We often get asked about youth sports.  The two most popular questions are:

1.       Why is there a user fee? 

The independent youth sports organizations, such as soccer, t-ball, baseball, softball, swimming, and tackle football, collect registration fees from each participant.  In turn they provide the participants with proper equipment, practices, games, and officials.  These funds are not contributed to the maintenance and utilities on the fields/facilities that are involved with each sport.  The athletic user fee of $5 per city resident and $10 per non-city resident is charged per participant.  These funds collected are used to maintain and upgrade fields/facilities.  One user fee is collected per participant per sport.  If a participant participates in a league and is on a travel team, that participant is only required to pay the user fee once.  These fees are collected annually.

2.       Who opens the restrooms?

Each independent youth sports organization is in charge of opening and closing bathrooms for their leagues.  While the restrooms are open we ask each organization to be accountable and responsible for these restrooms.  This includes, monitoring, clean up, and reporting all maintenance issues concerning the restrooms.  Each organization is given keys to restrooms and lights.  Should anyone see that the restrooms are not open during league play please call your organizations.  If there are maintenance issues please call our administrative offices 533-2847 and ask for Park Supervisor Garry Moore.

Interested in playing some volleyball? Join our TJ Davis Volleyball Club on facebook! This group is designed for anyone in Roanoke Rapids or the surrounding area age 16 and up.  It also serves as a way for members to connect and coordinate matches and free play with others in the community. We will have the nets set up for free play every Thursday evening at 7 at TJ Davis.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/TJDVolleyballClub