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| July 2009 - Events around Oxford  A Greener L-O-U Red, White & Blue Independence Weekend Festivities Friday, July 3 10AM Swearing in of Mayor & Board of Aldermen @ City Hall 7-9PM Street Dance on the Square, Featuring Soule 8PM - Midnight Firecracker Ball at the Lyric, Featuring the Bouffants A Fund-Raiser for the Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi Saturday, July 4 Registration 6:45 - 7:45AM, Start 8AM Annual Stars and Stripes on the Square 5K Classic And Family Fun Run Benefiting the Oxford Humane Society 10AM A Greener LOU - Red, White & Blue Parade Children Friendly. Begins and Ends on the Oxford Square Parade Registration Form » 4PM Family Picnic in the Grove With Live Music, Children’s’ Activities & Food Vendors Featuring the LOU Community Band 6PM Patriotic Independence Day Ceremony Featuring Local Dignitaries and Honoring our Independence 6:30PM Live Concert in the Grove Featuring the Mississippi Lions All-State Band Fantastic Fireworks Show over Oxford-University Stadium Nightfall Sunday, July 5 6:30PM Interdenominational Spiritual Service at Paris-Yates Chapel Echo Taps Ceremony & Refreshments on the Quad Thirty–Sixth Annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference "Faulkner and Mystery"  July 19 – 23, 2009, University of Mississippi The 2009 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference will examine the topic ”Faulkner and Mystery” through five days of lectures and discussions by literary scholars and critics. In addition to formal lectures, there will be several shorter panel presentations, guided day-long tours of Northeast Mississippi and the Delta, and sessions on “Teaching Faulkner” by James B. Carothers, University of Kansas, Terrell L. Tebbetts, Lyon College, Charles Peek, University of Nebraska at Kearney, and Theresa Towner, University of Texas at Dallas. More information » Fall Soccer Registration The Oxford Park Commission has announced that fall soccer registration has begun. The season is right around the corner; sign up now before it’s too late!! Cost for the league is $50 Ages 4 through 14. For more information contact CJ Ketchum, Youth Atletic Director at 232-2380. See the Oxford Park Commission page for more information.  2009 Summer Reading ProgramJune - July, 2009 Lafayette County - Oxford Public Library Participate in the 2009 Summer Reading Program "Be Creative". See the Summer Reading Program page for more information. Programs nearly everyday in June and July. Call the Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library at 662-234-5751 for more information.  Oxford Shakespeare Festival Summer 2009 - A Season of Enchantment June 12 - July 2, 2009 - Gertrude C. Ford Center, University of Mississippi Oxford Shakespeare Festival is proud to announce the Summer 2009 ‘A Season of Enchantment’ as it continues the tradition of summer theatre at Ole Miss and Oxford. Last summer, for our 5th Anniversary, we presented MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, and our Family Production, Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. PINAFORE. This season we again proudly present three professional productions: Experimental Shakespeare, CYMBELINE by William Shakespeare (in the Ford Center Studio Theater); Traditional Shakespeare, THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare (in Meek Hall Auditorium); and our Family Production, Gilbert and Sullivan’s IOLANTHE (in the Ford Center Main Hall). For more information or to buy tickets, call (662) 915-7411 or visit http://shakespeare.olemiss.edu L-O-U Community Bike Ride Sundays at 3 p.m. from the Depot Members of the Oxford Cycling Club will be on hand to help familiarize everyone with the rules of riding on the road. We will ride for up to an hour on the new bike paths and quiet streets on campus and in town. Riders of all skill levels are welcome. More information online at: http://LOUpathways.org
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