This weekend is shaping up to be a busy one in Vicksburg, if the weather allows.

The weekend will kickoff Friday night with the annual Relay for Life event taking place at Warren Central High School. Relay for Life was held at Vicksburg High in 2017, but made the move to Warren Central this year. The event will start at 7 p.m. with the survivor’s walk and conclude at 11 p.m. with the closing ceremony.

Saturday is an action-packed day with events going on from early in the morning to the evening with a little bit for everybody.

Saturday at 8 a.m., the Center for Pregnancy Choices will host its annual Walk for Life event that serves as a fundraiser for the center.

“It is a community event that reminds our community that abortion is till taking the lives of children in our community on a weekly basis,” CPC executive director Priscilla Black said. “We are an organization that has set itself up to make sure women aren’t choosing abortion because they don’t know they have support.”

The walk will start at the CPC, 1401 Adams St., and follow a mile-long route ending back at the center.

Also Saturday morning, the Old Court House Museum will be hosting its semi-annual flea market with vendors taking up entire city blocks surrounding the courthouse.

The spring market will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The biannual flea market serves as a fundraiser for the Old Court House Museum and will attract thousands of visitors to downtown Vicksburg to shop, eat and enjoy a spring day outdoors.

“There is going to be jewelry, clothes, baked items,” museum director Bubba Bolm said. “There’s going to be a few political booths with people running for office. There will be wooden furniture, swings, yard art and there is going to be a lady there selling guinea pigs.”

The Vicksburg National Military Park’s annual Park Day was rescheduled from last weekend to Saturday due to rain. Park Day is a partnership between VNMP and the Civil War Trust and will include multiple projects in the area of the Cairo Museum aimed at getting the park ready for the summer tourist season.

“We have four projects going on,” VNMP ranger Rose Rains said. “The main project is going to be headstone cleaning in the graveyard. We are also going to be cleaning the Cairo, installing new picnic tables and ripping out old wayside panels.”

For those more inclined to indoor activities, the Southern Cultural Heritage Center will be hosting its Raise the Roof talent show featuring a diverse set of acts.

This is the third year the event is being held and unlike previous years, there will not be a preliminary contest Friday night. All contestants will compete Saturday before winners are announced.

Competition will start at 6 p.m. and the winners will split $725 in prize money.