The 2012 Community Day Expo: Communities United in Mind Body & Spirit is Sat., April 28, at West Charlotte Recreation Center, 2401 Kendall Drive, Charlotte, NC. The free event is from noon to 3 p.m.

Cooper, a 2-year-old boxer, has been chosen as winner of Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation Department’s 2012 Top Dog Photo Contest.

Purchase your tickets now for the 2nd Annual “Hats Off to Parks” Luncheon on Friday, May 11, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. in Freedom Park.

Mecklenburg County residents can now walk, bike or jog on a paved path from CPCC to the Park Road Shopping Center. The entire urban section of the Little Sugar Creek Greenway is now finished!

Park and Recreation is partnering with a host of environmental organizations to bring the SYRCL Wild and Scenic Film Festival Tour to Charlotte on April 22.

The event begins with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. and 2 p.m.