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The annual Beach Party on the Square returns to Leonardtown on Saturday, 4-9 p.m. The free event features entertainment and fun activities for the entire family. As part of the festivities the Rotary Clubs of Leonardtown and Lexington Park will hold the 2nd annual Running of the Balls.

Entertainment includes the 25th Hour Band, classic cars and Corvettes, hula dancing, jump rope and limbo contests, and a strolling juggler. Fun activities include bungee football, a Velcro sticky wall, moon bounce, water slide, giant basketball net, a fire truck hose down, face painting and sand volleyball

Running of the Balls is a fundraising event conducted by the Rotary Clubs to support local non-profit charitable organizations.  The event staff will drop up to 5,000 golf balls on Leonardtown's Fenwick Street just before the Johnson Lane intersection and let them race, bounce and roll to the finish line gate funnel about 350 feet down Fenwick Street.

All of the balls are pre-numbered. To participate in the Running of the Balls fundraiser, individuals can "adopt" golf balls. The event staff keeps the pre-numbered balls prior to the race and releases all the golf balls at once. The first 30 balls that make it past the finish line win prizes! Balls will be dropped at 7 p.m.