Weekend Happenings: Irish Fall Festival, Italian Fest, Walk for the Wounded +More

You can go Irish, Italian or your own way this weekend. Or, you can go see the Pope.

But, if you're staying in south Jersey, you have several local early fall favorites as options for fun, including North Wildwood's 24th annual Irish Fall Festival or the Smithville Italian Festival.

Let me direct your attention to a different kind of celebration this Saturday on the Ocean City Boardwalk. The annual Walk for the Wounded salutes and supports American military injured in service and their families, as they re-acclimate to civilian life.

While defending America, sadly, many lives are lost. But of equal importance are the lives that are changed forever by severe wounds, life changing amputations, and painful surgeries – often followed by mounting bills at home, necessary job retraining, home renovations and more.

The walk is presented by Ocean City Home Bank and Operation First Response.

Join Lite Rock 96.9 WFPG, with special guest Phil Martelli, the St. Joe's  basketball coach, for the 3-mile walk, Sat. 9/26, with registration @ 8:30a and opening ceremony @ 9:30a.

Here are more South Jersey Weekend Happenings...

Atlantic City...

- Tropicana: Ring of Combat, Fri 9/25

- Borgata: Miss'd America Pageant, Sat. 9/26, Music Box

- Borgata: The Band Perry, Sat 9/26, Festival Park

- Tropicana: The Guess Who, Sat. 9/26

- Dante Hall: "Relatively Speaking", 3 one-act plays presented by the A.C. Theater Company, Fri-Sun. 9/25-27

Other fun stuff to do this weekend...

- Galloway: Join Lite Rock 96.9 WFPG at Galloway's Family Movie Night in the Park, "Big Hero 6", Municipal Complex on Jimmy Leeds Road, 6pm

- Wildwood Crest; Seafarer's Celebration Weekend, Sunset Lake, fireworks, Fri 9/25, festival 9/26

- North Wildwood: 24th annual Irish Fall Festival, thru Sun. 9/27

- Smithville: Smithville Italian Festival, Sat. 9/26

- Ocean City: Walk for the Wounded, Sat. 9/26, 6th & the Boardwalk @ 9:30a

- Brigantine: America's Pirates & Their Hidden Treasures, with true stories of Blackbeard in Brigantine and Captain Kidd in Cape May, Brigantine Beach Community Center, 42nd Street,  Sat. 9/26 1-2p, 609-266-0110

- Atlantic City: Bangladesh Folk Dancing, Atlantic City Free Public Library, Sat. 9/26 2-3p,

- Margate: Margate Fall Festival, Sat. 9/26

- Dorthy: The Volunteer Fire Department's annual Car Show, Sat. 9/26 from 10a-3p, 609-429-3065

- Mays Landing: South Jersey Wine & Food Festival, Sat-Sun 9/26-27

- Millville: Martin Short, Levoy Theatre's Anniversary Gala, Sat. 9/26

- Galloway: Glenn Miller Orchestra, Sun. 9/27 @ 2p, Stockton PAC

- Cape May: Bikers, Bunkers & Brews by the Bay,Sat. 9/26 , Nature Center of Cape May, 609-898-8848

- Ocean View: Noyes Museum's Chinese Mid-Autumn Moon Celebration, Sat. 9/26 from 1-2p, 609-652-8848