Sports

March 15:  Free Kids Golf Clinic – Adams Golf Pro Tour, Oakwing Golf Club, 5p.m.  Sponsored by Adams Golf Pro Tour and Children’s Miracle Network.  The Junior Golf Clinic is an opportunity for area youth to swing with the pros.  Available to kids between the ages of 7 and 17.  Participants must bring their own golf clubs.  Cost:  Admission free.  Call Craig Campo:  561-0260.

March 12:  Hixson Ford Pro-Am Golf Tournament, Oakwing Golf Club, time:  assigned tee times.  Sponsored by Hixson Ford and Children’s Miracle Network.  A golf tournament fundraiser for the Children’s Miracle Network.  Each team will play with a professional golfer from Adams Golf Pro Tour.  Tee times will be assigned.  Golfers will receive invitations to the Pro-Am Golf Party on March 11 and the Pro-Am Awards Party on March 14.  Cost:  $1000 per team of three amateurs and one professional golfer.  Call Craig Campo:  561-0260.

March 9:  Red River Run, Downtown Alexandria, 8:30a.m.  Sponsored by Red River Run.  15^th anniversary of the Red River Run 10K Road Race.  Cost:  $30.  Call Bart Jones:  443-3311.

January 26:  Spirits 5K, 1260 Texas Ave., Suite H, 2p.m.  Sponsored by Spirits Food & Friends.  Cost:  $25.  Call Lee Gwinn:  445-4491.

January 18-19:  51^st Amicus Club PRCA Rodeo, Rapides Parish Coliseum, Friday 7:30p.m., Sat. 2p.m. and 7:30p.m.  Sponsored by the Amicus Club of Alexandria,  Proceeds benefit mentally challenged and autistic children at St. Mary’s Residential Training Facility.  Cost:  $15 adults, 12 and under free with coupon.  Call Ann Brewer:  445-0580 or Frank Close:  448-8987.

January 1- March 30:  FITBOX New Year’s Special, England Air Park, Mon. and Fri. 6-7p.m.  Sponsored by Master Rousseau’s Taekwondo.  Cost:  $35 per month.  Call Master Rousseau:  443-8066.

Girls on the Run program kicks off in February

Girls on the Run and the YWCA of Alexandria-Pineville are partnering to kick off the first-ever Girls on the Run season in Rapides Parish on February 18, 2013, made possible by the generous donation of Run Wild Multisports.

AlexandriaMuseumof Art, 5:30-6:30p.m.  Made possible by a grant from the Rapides Foundation.  Cost:  admission free.  Call Jenny Gallent:  443-3458.