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Get ready for a free Concert on the Green on Friday, August 23 featuring one of the area's most popular bands – The Kelly Rae Band.

The six-piece, high-energy country band takes the stage from 6 to 8 pm at Oso Viejo Park, 24932 Veterans Way. The Kelly Rae Band has been delivering crowd-pleasing music to audiences throughout Southern California for more than two decades. The band plays a wide range of country music from Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash to the current artists like Lady Antebellum and Little Big Town.

Think you can perform the best belly flop or cannon ball in town? Earn prizes and forever bragging rights at the final Summer Friday Float from 4-7 pm on August 2 at the Sierra Recreation Center, 26887 Recodo Lane.

Bring your family, swimsuits and towels to this ice cream-themed event that includes music, family games and crafts. Enjoy the water slide from 4-5:45 pm before perfecting your style in the belly flop and cannon ball contests at 6 pm. Food, snacks and ice cream will be sold onsite, and guests will enjoy open recreational swimming and tons of fun.

If you want a front-row seat to an exciting national swim competition, consider volunteering as a swim meet timer for the 2019 USMS Summer National Championship August 7-11 at Mission Viejo’s Marguerite Aquatics Center.

If you want to tap your competitive side without flexing a muscle, sign up for the Esport-Management Summer League.

This month-long program by Esport-Management and the City of Mission Viejo is dedicated to the most popular titles and includes lessons, competition, coaching and prizes. Whether you’re a novice or a more seasoned player, this league has something for you.

Option A - Beginner Esports

Today, nearly 360,000 motorists travel I-5 daily between the San Joaquin Hills Toll Road (SR-73) and El Toro Road. Transportation planners expect traffic volumes to grow 25 percent by 2045. To address this travel demand, OCTA and Caltrans are working together to implement the San Diego Freeway (I-5) Widening project from SR-73 to El Toro Road.

Is your child entering kindergarten in the fall? If so or even if not, your child can get a leg up in our ABC’s with Tiny Tots summer program at the Montanoso Recreation Center.

This amazing class helps prepare your child for kindergarten in a fun, loving and structured environment.  The program focuses on developing kids’ skills in socialization, listening and patience through learning to write their names, letters and numbers along with enjoying cooking, music, science, story/circle time and art.  Kids can also use the splash pad.

The next time you head to the Potocki Center for the Arts check out the fascinating exhibit on display by art students ranging in age from 5 to adults.

They are the students of Dr. Marillyn Brame, director of Visual Arts Art School and a designer of visual arts murals. She teaches classes for children and adults in all media – from beginning drawing to advanced painting techniques.

Guitar genius Brooks Robertson will light up the Mission Viejo stage when he performs a special Lord of the Strings concert on Saturday, February 16.

The concert is at 7 p.m. in the Mission Viejo Council Chamber at 200 Civic Center.

The best things are often free.  Neighborhood Watch is a free program that connects neighbors to support a safer community.  Knowing your neighbors is the key.  Starting a Watch group provides an opportunity for you to meet new neighbors and reconnect with others.

Residential crime often occurs when people from outside a community target the quiet, well-kept streets of another.  A proactive group of residents who know their neighbors will be quicker to notice when something is unusual or out of place and make a call for service.

A blood drive will be held on Saturday, December 22 to help save the life of a little girl in need of extremely rare blood.

The blood drive is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the bloodmobile at Mission Viejo Civic Center, 200 Civic Center Drive.

Young Zainab Mughal is need of type O or type A blood from donors who are exclusively Pakistani, Indian or Iranian descent.

If you believe you can help, make an appointment by calling 800-879-4484.