Yes that's correct. Yes Spring has not officially arrived but last nite I got a call to go to a meeting for our town festival. Would have been nice to get more than ten minutes notice! Last year was the first year for our new committee. The people that did it in the past quit and they spent every last penny of the money raised in previous years. They didn't want the festival to continue without them I guess. Add in the fact that the festival is in September and we had a severe flood in June/July so most people thought there was no way to make it happen especially since most of the money raised comes from the sale of raffle tickets and we have to start selling them in June! But miracles happen when people want them to so we not only had the festival, we raised more money then the previous committee ever did and we had more items in our raffle than ever before!
We got donations out the wazoo and a matching grant so we smoked em! Felt good too I must say. This year we've had more time to get it together so we plan to do even better than last year even without the matching grant.
So this year we plan to have many more games and entertainment from 11am til 6pm-usually its all over by 4pm. We have a lot more vendors coming too.
I think people really like to come to the festival because the river is close, the food is good, we have a ski show, a boat show and lots of crafts. See the fog rising from the river in this picture? I can't tell you how great it is to see all the beauty the river has to offer even if it does sometime flood.
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