Sunday offers a packed day of events in Newport County. Time to make your plans

Will Richmond, Newport Daily News
·4 min read

Spring has sprung and it's time to get outside to celebrate the season.

While your weekend may be filling up with things to do, but this Sunday is filled with fun events to take you right through the day.

Start with a pancake breakfast to support a local organization, head over to Fort Adams to help clean up the coastline, then stop by Miantonomi Park to celebrate the daffodils in bloom, then catch a classic baseball movie or head out for a chorus concert.

Try to do them all or pick your favorites, either way, there's plenty to enjoy this weekend.

Check out what's happening and start making your plans.

Pancake breakfast fundraiser

The Knights of Columbus with the local Boys Town of New England will be holding a Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser on Sunday from 8 a.m. until noon at the St. Barnabas Social Hall. Breakfast will include pancakes, eggs, sausage, potatoes, coffee, juice and water. Dine in and/or take out.

Tickets can be purchased at the door or the offices of St. Barnabas, St. Anthony, and the Boys Town of New England office located at 58 Flanagan Road in Portsmouth.

Ticket Prices are Adults: $12/each, Children 6-12: $6/each, Children Under 6: Free

Watch 'The Sandlot'

The Jane Pickens Theater & Event Center a world-class cinema located in Washington Square in Newport’s historic center, continues its Sunday family film series with a showing of "The Sandlot" at 2 p.m. on Sunday. The film follows Scottie Smalls as he moves to a new neighborhood and manages to make friends with a group of kids who play baseball at the sandlot. Together, they go on a series of funny and touching adventures. The boys run into trouble when Smalls borrows a ball from his stepdad that gets hit over a fence.

Guests can enjoy free baseball cookies and $1 per ticket will be donated to the local Four Hearts Foundation.

For tickets and more information, visit janepickens.com/shows/sandlot.

Everybody Chorus of Jamestown

The Everybody Chorus of Jamestown will present a spring concert entitled “Time” on Sunday at 3 p.m. The public is invited to the Jamestown Senior Center, 6 West St., and enjoy songs about time including“Yesterday” by the Beatles, “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess, “Cat’s in the Cradle” by Harry Chapin and “Time In a Bottle” by Jim Croce.

The Everybody Chorus is made up folks from all over the Greater Jamestown area. They have been together since 2017 under the direction of B.J. Whitehouse. In the past the chorus has raised money for local charities, Doctors Without Borders and The Wounded Warriors Project among others. Your free-will donation will support local food banks in Jamestown.

For more information, visit jamestownchorus.com or call 401-787-4487.

Fort Adams coastal cleanup

Children and adults walk the shoreline looking for litter during a 2020 beach clean up at Fort Adams State Park.
Children and adults walk the shoreline looking for litter during a 2020 beach clean up at Fort Adams State Park.

Sail Newport and ORCA (Ocean Recovery Community Alliance) will join forces to host a coastline cleanup at Fort Adams State Park on Sunday from noon to 2 p.m. Volunteers are needed to help remove winter debris from the shore.

The two nonprofit organizations will supply gloves, pickers and bags for volunteers. All ages are invited to the event. Volunteers will meet at Sail Newport, 72 Fort Adams Drive. People who would like to help are asked to register online at sail newport.org.

For more information, email nikki.raccio@sailnewport.org or call 401-846-1983

Daffy Fun at Miantonomi Park

Miantonomi Park in Newport, Rhode Island.
Miantonomi Park in Newport, Rhode Island.

With the park’s over 38,000 daffodils blooming for the first time, celebrate their arrival with an afternoon of daffy, delirious, and delicious fun on Sunday at noon in Miantonomi Park, including…

  • A daffy bike decorating contest and parade along Bike Newport’s new Traffic Garden, with prizes for the daffiest bikes.

  • The Daffy Dust-Up! Free, commemorative white T-shirts then get blasted with daffy colors as you dash through the daffy maze.

  • A daffy, yellow merengue pie slam-down.

  • Strolling the yellow carpets to a perfect picture-taking spot among the thousands of bright yellow daffodils – the largest field in Newport.

Music, storytelling, food trucks and more. An afternoon of Free Daffy Fun for young and old alike!

For more information, visit newportinbloom.org/our-activities/daffodil-days.

This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: Things to do in Newport April 14: Sandlot, Fort Adams cleanup, daffodils