Stoney Point Fire Department Celebrating 60th Anniversary With Open House

On Saturday, July 27th, you are invited to celebrate the 60th Anniversary Open House for the Stoney Point Fire Department.

This FREE event will be held from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. at the Stoney Point Road Fire Department located at 7221 Stoney Point Road in Fayetteville, North Carolina 28306.

Expect to have a great time touring the Stoney Point Fire Department facilities, check out the awesome fire trucks and be amazed at the equipment contained in each vehicle.

If you are wondering what types of fire-fighting apparatus you will see, check this list. Five pumper/tankers, one heavy rescue walk-in, one 75-foot aerial device, one heavy-duty brush truck, a quick response medical vehicle, two rescue boats, a mobile support air trailer, a 500-gallon foam trailer and two prime mover units.

Members of the Stoney Point Fire Department will be on hand and will be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.

There will also be a fire education house, free food, free giveaways, free prizes and free music by Fayetteville's super-popular group the Rivermist Band.

Rivermist is on fire these days with two really popular singles, "Everything's Changed" and "Don't Walk Away." Fans love the songs so much, that the band has spent 16 weeks atop the weekly beach music countdown. Rivermist also has a nomination for the Carolina Beach Music Association Song of the Year. Click here to connect and learn more about Rivermist.

So load up your vehicle, bring your lawn chairs, enjoy this special day and celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Stoney Point Fire Department.

The Stoney Point Fire Department has proudly served the residents of Cumberland County since 1964.

Has there ever been a restaurant from your childhood that you miss dearly? I remember so many that have come and gone here in Fayetteville. I was born in Summer of 1988 and you could consider our town a small town in some ways. Growing up you had chains but also the local places are the standouts like McDonalds or Burger King but when you are a kid with no source of income alot of our good eating came from the buffet style.

The Pizza Hut Buffet is legendary. Unlimited pizza and salad all during lunch time kept us all happy. One Summer we had a Pokemon Card competition at Toys-R-Us but before we got there we stopped to Pizza Hut for the buffet. My grandmother was the one to always take us to these places while my mom worked and it would be my best friends Mark & Steven along with my brother and sister. My grandmother didn't need to cook for all these mouths and cmon now pizza is legendary! I was a simple guy. For the longest time I was cool with just cheese pizza. So as much as I could I would chow down on that while everyone else ate pepperoni like all the rest of the normies would. I would sometimes switch it up and go meat lovers and remove all the pepperoni. I liked pepperoni but just not with my pizza. And to keep my grandmother happy we of course had to have at least one salad.

The other Pizza Buffet of note was always Cici's Pizza. Now not as popular where CiCi's took it to the next level was the pasta and desserts like Cinnamon rolls. At Cici's the pizza was a lot smaller in size so it was easier to have competitions with each other. The record currently held by my friend Mark was 13 slices of pizza. He got really sick but he is still the champion nonetheless. Here are the other fun places I miss in Fayetteville.

Now the burgers and milkshakes were always top-tier. But the best breakfast we always looked forward too was at Shoney's. The pancakes were everything.

Now our love for buffets was undisputed. For some reason though I can always remember the Macaroni and Cheese the most from Ryan's. This was the go to for After Church and we even had a few wedding receptions here.

They had the burgers and the hotdogs. We used to walk to Backyard Burgers when we lived on Bunce. In hindsight, probably not the safest but hey we are here still. Now the thing I looked forward to most was the fries. I miss them.