Best Bets for the Weekend

1.

Where/When: Augusta Curtis Cultural Center, 175 E Main St, Meriden, Saturday, May 28, 2011 at noon.

Why Go:  Local musicians grades 5 - 12 and the Black Friday Brass Band will honor the city's Antique Veterans in The Central Connecticut Civic Youth Orchestra (See our Patch video on them ) Concert for Memorial Day this Saturday. A reception will follow.

Pricing: Free will donation

2. SENIOR BUDDY READER WEEKEND PLANT SALE

Where/When: Lincoln Middle School, Saturday, May 28 and Sunday, May 29, 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Why Go:  Bitten by the garden bug now that the rain has ended? You can abandon that Ark-building kit and head over to Lincoln to peruse some plants and help out the Senior Buddy Reader Program (pictured right) at the same time. (If you missed it, the Buddy Readers just had a visit from Miss Connecticut USA. You can see that .)

Pricing: No admission fee

3.

Where/When: Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at the Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts & Cultural Center, 605 Main St., Middletown

Why Go: The series closes its 2011 season with a ‘mega-open-mic’ of poetic homages, parodies, paeans, satires and ‘general metaphoric mayhem” … whatever that is!

Pricing: Free, but donations accepted

4.

Where/When: Liberty Street, from Washington Park to City Hall, Monday, May 30, 10 a.m.

Why Go:  Honor our city's veterans and the memory of those fallen by attending Meriden's annual Memorial Day parade. Be sure to wave at the parade's Grand Marshal Superintendent Mark Benigni and stop by City Hall after the event for a reception. 

Pricing: Free!

5.

Where/When: Monday at 11 a.m., starting and ending at Coginchaug High School, 135A Pickett Lane, Durham

Why Go: Get out and work off the weekend’s caloric intake with one of these road races hosted by the Durham-Middlefield Exchange Club.

Pricing: Race-day: $18 (10k), $15 (4k), $8 (under-12, either race)