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Welcome to National Fire Day!

Get ready to be a part of something big! National Wildfire Community Preparedness Day will mark its fifth anniversary in 2018.

Commit a couple of hours, or the entire day, and watch as your actions positively contribute to reducing your community’s wildfire risk. Challenge your friends, your family, relatives, faith-based group or youth organization to develop a project and join others throughout the nation in making big changes. Your efforts will help raise wildfire awareness, promote collaboration and bring neighbors together to work on projects that can help protect homes, neighborhoods and entire communities from future wildfire risk or current post-fire impacts.

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UVa basketball team gets commitment from 7-footer (dailyprogresas.com; Blum)

Virginia has landed a commitment from a 7-footer from Argentina, per a report from ESPN. Francisco Caffaro is the first NCAA commitment that is a graduate of the NBA Global Academy.

He committed, along with fellow NBA Global Academy graduate Tchamwa Tchatchoua from Cameroon, who picked UNLV.

Caffaro will be a part of the 2018 Class, per 247Sports.

N.C. State adds C Wyatt Walker, a grad transfer from Samford (greesnboro.com; AP)

The N.C. State basketball team has added center Wyatt Walker as a graduate transfer from Samford.

Coach Kevin Keatts announced Walker's signing today, saying he will graduate this month and will join the Wolfpack over the summer.

The 6-foot-9 Walker averaged 12.9 points and a Southern Conference-best 9.7 rebounds as a sophomore in 2016-17. He played just two games last season before suffering a season-ending leg injury.

Walker is expected to help an N.C. State frontcourt after 7-footer Omer Yurtseven transferred to Georgetown.

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Jackson Browne, Jim Gaffigan: 13 things to do in CNY this weekend (PS; Pucci)

This weekend marks the start of the much-anticipated Clinton Square festival season and with snow (hopefully) far in the rear-view mirror, there are plenty of reasons to celebrate in Central New York.

Tom Keifer
Tom Keifer, best known as the frontman of 80s metal band Cinderella, is coming to Central New York armed with Cinderella hits, like "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)" and "Nobody's Fool," as well as songs from his solo debut album "The Way Life Goes."

Where: del Lago Resort & Casino, 1133 State Route 414, Waterloo.

When: Thursday, May 3, at 8 p.m.

How much: Tickets start at $17 and are available online at dellagoresort.com.

Jim Gaffigan
Comedian Jim Gaffigan is known for his clean, self-deprecating comedy about fatherhood, food, growing old and a whole host of other topics, is performing a pair of shows in Syracuse.

Where: Landmark Theatre, 362 S. Salina St., Syracuse.

When: Friday, May 4, at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

How much: Tickets start at $39.50.