Kick off spring with a colorful celebration of spirituality and Indian culture at the fifth annual Festival of Joy. The festival will take place at Klyde Warren Park (2012 Woodall Rodgers Fwy., Dallas) on Saturday April 27, beginning at 11:00 a.m. and culminating with a live headline stage performance from 7:00 p.m. on. (photo credit: Arun Sharma, Your Lensman Photography)

An Americana, Grammy™ and Dove Award-winner with multiple solo recordings, Mike Farris is an artist’s artist and a musician’s musician. Celebrated and revered by his fellow performers, he brings everything to his music and to every live performance, every time.

(L-R, standing) Ryan Klose, AW Winningham, Ronny Hart and Kelly Baker; seated, Fannin County Judge Newt Cunningham. Fannin SWCD has partnered with the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board (TSSWCB) and the Association of Texas Soil & Water Conservation Districts to highlight Soil and Water Stewardship Week and the importance of voluntary land stewardship in Texas. The statewide campaign is April 28 through May 5, 2024, and the focus this year is "May the Forest Be With You Always."

"Heavy Date Over Germany" will be the next quarterly program of the North Texas World War II History Roundtable. Jewellee Jordan Kuenstler, director of the Museum of the West Texas Frontier in Stamford, Texas, will present the life and times of B-17 tail gunner Ray Perry. He flew missions over various Nazi targets in 1944 and 1945. The program will be at 7 p.m. April 25 at the Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum in Greenville. Members and public are invited.

Calling all photographers or bird lovers! Want to know more about photographing birds? Join us at the Honey Grove Library this Saturday morning as Honey Grove Photography Club members Patsi Tindel and Wanda Oliver share tips for using a cell phone to photograph birds and attracting birds into the landscape.

Rev. Donna Brown, Executive Pastor of New Jerusalem Baptist Church of Greenville, Texas will be our guest speaker. The annual Sanctuary Care program is this Sunday, April 28, 2024, at 10:45 a.m.