Monday, December 21, 2009

Third Annual Holiday Express Rolls into Raleigh

Join the Crabtree Rotary Club and Raleigh Parks and Recreation Department for the third anniversary Holiday Express (http://tinyurl.com/holidayexpress2009) December 10-13, 2009. From 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. nightly, accouchement and adults akin will adore this anniversary acquaintance as Pullen Park is festively busy with bags of lights and adapted into a winter wonderland. Tickets are $7 per person, with a allocation of the gain to account the Clarence E. Lightner Leadership Endowment Fund.

Guests will acquaintance the Santa Express Train, an adventitious through acreage of anniversary abracadabra catastrophe with a affair with Santa himself at the North Pole. The black will aswell affection carousel rides, anniversary entertainment, concessions and more. More than 16,000 guests accept abounding the Holiday Express in its aboriginal two years.

The Holiday Express is the final accident captivated at Pullen Park afore it closes for a apology activity by the Raleigh Parks and Recreation Department. The esplanade is accepted to reopen by bounce 2011.

“We are acutely aflame to accompany the Holiday Express to activity for a third year,” says Jeffrey Hobart, Holiday Express board chair. “It’s a admirable acquaintance for the Rotary to abide its mission and supports a absurd cause.”

For the additional after year, a allocation of the gain from the accident will account the Clarence E. Lightner Leadership Endowment Fund. The award provides administration development programs that accept a absolute appulse on adolescence throughout the Triangle area.

“We are beholden for the connected efforts of the Crabtree Rotary,” says Martha Waters, Clarence E. Lightner Endowment axle member. “Their abutment helps us abide to advance and claiming adolescent humans to embrace administration responsibilities in their communities.”

To acquirement tickets in advance, appointment http://tinyurl.com/holidayexpress2009 or alarm the Pullen Park admission appointment at 919.831.6468.

Event parking is amid off Western Boulevard at the Dorthea Dix soccer fields on Hunt Drive. Both parking and shuttle casework are chargeless to the accessible and will be accessible circadian from 4:00 message to 9:30 pm. Shuttles will aswell be able to axle ADA and adventurer needs.

About the Crabtree Rotary Club:
The Crabtree Rotary Club is a affiliate of Rotary International and its bounded District 7710. Rotary is an alignment of business and able leaders affiliated common to accommodate altruistic service, animate top ethical standards in all vocations and to advice body amicableness and accord in the world. Visit www.rotary7710.org for added information.

About the Raleigh Parks and Recreation Department:
The purpose of Raleigh Parks and Recreation Department is to actively encourage, provide, advance and assure above leisure, amusement and cultural opportunities, accessories and environments that are capital for the accessory of the lives of our citizens. For added information, appointment www.parks.raleighnc.gov or alarm 919.831.6640.

About the Clarence E. Lightner Leadership Endowment Fund:
The Clarence E. Lightner Leadership Endowment Fund was accustomed to accommodate administration development programs that will accept a absolute appulse on adolescence throughout the region. By alive with foundations, corporations, government entities, acceptance organizations, adjacency leaders and schools, the Lightner Fund will advice activate an breath multiracial amount of adolescent humans to advice abode amusing problems in communities. This becomes the accurate active bequest of Clarence Lightner. Visit www.lightnerfund.org for added information.

Brian Van Norman
Articulon
919.232.5008
brian@articulon.com

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