March brings many enjoyable opportunities you won’t want to miss. This Saturday, March 7, is Shuckin’ on the Shoals Festival at Saluda Shoals Park East. From 9 am to 2 pm you may shuck your oysters and cosume your favorite beverage. You can also take part in the 5K run. To add to your day’s entertainment, there will be music by the Cash Money Experience Band. For information, visit www.icrc.net/event/shuckin’-shoals-festival-–-shuckin’-runnin . It sounds like a fun day!

Also on March 7, at 1 pm you can “Pack the Pantry” at the Icehouse Amphitheater in Lexington. There will be live entertainment and you may donate nonperishable food items to Mission Lexington.

Lexington will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day March 14 with the Shamrock Parade down Main Street at 2 pm. Wear your green and join in.

Do you like the music of Broadway? If so, you must attend the Lexington County Choral Society concert, “Sing a Song of Broadway.” Special guest will be the Southern Bronze Handbell Ensemble. Under the direction of founder Hal McIntosh, this should be an outstanding evening of music. It’s March 13, 7:30 pm, at Saxe Gotha Presbyterian Church in Lexington.

The Herb Bunch and Clemson Extension Service will sponsor a Gardening Symposium with Jenks Farmer March 23, 7 pm, at the extension office, 605 W. Main St., Ste 109-F, Lexington. For $10 tickets, contact Wanda Pettus at 803-356-0677.

The Shepherd’s Center held its last meeting of the winter session Feb. 27 with William Lynch of Caughman-Harman Funeral Home as lunch sponsor. He spoke of the Homeless Veterans Program for those who have no family to claim them. They are given an honorable and respectful final farewell at Ft. Jackson National Cemetery.

The Shepherd Center’s spring sesson will start April 16.

Anne Bull reports

The Lexington Library will host a game of quidditch March 12, 4 pm, for grades 2 to 8.

Attendees will make their own broomsticks Hogwarts attire is also requested.

The Library’s March tea is the 8th at 2:30 pm with Irish tales and folklore. Wear green.

The annual Citadel Oyster Roast was held Feb. 29 in Leesville to raise scholarship funds. There were 64 graduates and supporters there.

Mary Louise REsch, director of Philanthropy of Habitat for Humanity says the group, in cooperation with Mt. Horeb UMC, will soon break ground on two new houses on Jesse Street. Two familes have already been identified to move into the two new homes. They have spent a minimum of two years in Habitat’s Homeowner Program preparing for the move.

Working with community leaders like Constance Caractor Flemming, Habitat is trying to identify areas of most need. They hope to restore Lexington neighborhoods one block at a time in the areas of Jesse, Allen, and Hendrix streets. Habitat is also working on additional partnerships with groups like Lexington Medical Center to build and repair additional homes in west Lexington. Town and county officials have been working with Habitat to determine how resources can best be used.

Happy birthday to Tara Knotts Grigsby, who was born on Leap Year, the 29th of February. Also to Jim Freeman, Suzanne Wilkins, Linda Bodie, Miranda DiMarco, Alena Senf, Gary Cazier, Bob Roddick, Jolie Hiers, Barbara Byers, Bailey Brown, Norman Boyd, Will Hendrick, Chris Spence, Pat Bank, Marian Fowler, Addie Schneider, Margini Shealy, Christine Tucker, William Cochran, Anita Gloveer, Brett Tomashitis, Stephen Wenzell, Lindsey Bible, Mia Coats, Steve Hobson, Rachel Hamby, Bailey King, Whitney Brock, Brad Cordell, David Goff, Linda King, Suzy Loney, Jennie Marr, Elizabeth Trenbeath, Brent Weaver, Jeannie Chewning, Lee Pitcovich, and Joan Kalec.