What better way to celebrate winter than with chili and ice sculpting?

You can welcome spring this weekend with something old and something new on the South Jersey festival circuit.

A minor league baseball team and a beloved music festival are South Jersey’s latest recession casualties.

There are music or food festivals in just about every part of the state.

It’s a big weekend for food and wine lovers at the Jersey Fresh Food and Wine Festival, Saturday and Sunday at Hopewell Valley Vineyards in Pennington. Taste wines from the state’s vineyards, attend seminars by wine and food experts, and try food from Brothers Moon and Nomad Pizza Company in Hopewell, The Bent Spoon, Tre Piani Restaurant and Underground Café in Princeton, and High Street Grill in Mt. Holly.

You can start this weekend off on a good foot at the first ever North Jersey Komen Race for the Cure, Sunday at Branch Brook Park in Newark, to benefit breast cancer research. You can register on the website, or beginning at 7 a.m. on race day at the park.  There’s a 5K run/walk and the 1.5 mile Fun Walk.  NJ My Way is a media sponsor of this event.  Make sure you wave to our cameras!