Heritage Day Festival gets summer off to fun start

By Eve­lyn Long -

“I think it turned out to be suc­cess­ful,” said Andrea Hazen, pres­i­dent of the Friends of Card­ing­ton, spon­sors and orga­niz­ers of the Card­ing­ton Her­itage Day Festival

Hazen was com­ment­ing on the event held June 23. She esti­mated 1,000 peo­ple attended the full day event which fea­tured a parade and a vari­ety of activ­i­ties, events, music and games held basi­cally in the area of the Com­mu­nity Park.

She cited the Corn Hole Tour­na­ment, the Car Show and the Wolf Pack Demon­stra­tions as being pop­u­lar events. Among those pre­sent­ing musi­cal enter­tain­ment were the Span­gler Sis­ters, a pop­u­lar local singing duo and the band “Hol­ly­wood Red,” a band whose sound is a blend of clas­sic and mod­ern rock. Song writ­ing, on-stage energy, and out­stand­ing gui­tar play­ing are the trade­marks of this teen band.

Two mem­bers, Jon Suh (gui­tar) and Dominic Fris­sora (vocal), for­merly of the band “Poli­gro 614″ won the 2011 School Jam USA title of ‘Best Teen Band in the USA’. Suh was also rec­og­nized as “Best Gui­tarist” in the com­pe­ti­tion held in Ana­heim, CA. They were also invited to per­form in the Music Messe Fes­ti­val in Frank­fort, Ger­many in April, 2011.

Lisa Vaughn Hess, a Cardington-Lincoln High School grad­u­ate, opened the day’s fes­tiv­i­ties singing the National Anthem in the park gazebo.

Also pop­u­lar was the Dunk tank spon­sored by the Explor­ers and Skate Board Pro­fes­sional Doug Brown.

Among the units in the parade was the Big Wal­nut Joint Fire Dis­trict who recently led a “boot drive,” for injured Card­ing­ton fire fighter Tom Brandum.

Orga­niz­ing the parade was Steve Trent, a mem­ber of the Card­ing­ton Fire Department.

The Card­ing­ton Rotary Club held a Bratwurst Din­ner to con­clude the day’s events.

The Boy Scout Troop 30 and Girl Scout Troop 23 51 offered their assis­tance through­out the day and also had booths in the park.

The Card­ing­ton Swim­ming pool held a free swim and the Mor­row County Antique Trac­tor and Equip­ment Asso­ci­a­tion offered a shut­tle to trans­port vis­i­tors to the Maxwell Park.

Hazen said the pro­ceeds from the fes­ti­val will be directed to hold­ing dif­fer­ent activ­i­ties in the vil­lage, includ­ing movies in the park, a dance and a Hal­loween party.

“More vol­un­teers are needed,” said Hazen and she invited the pub­lic to attend the next meet­ing of the Friends of CArd­ing­ton at 6 pm on July 10 at the Card­ing­ton Munic­i­pal Building.

Friends com­mit­tee mem­bers are Hazen, pres­i­dent; Dejah Row­land, vice pres­i­dent; Jackie Ivers, sec­re­tary; and Lt. James Wal­lace, Explorer representative.

Mem­bers of the Fes­ti­val Steer­ing Com­mit­tee, in addi­tion to those named include Richard Cald­well, Jim Mor­ris, Amer­i­can Legion Post 97 rep­re­sen­ta­tive; Steve Trent, fire depart­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tive and parade orga­nizer; Act­ing Police Chief Robert Hus­ton, Kent Fos­ter and CPD Explor­ers. Jim Row­land, was chair­man of the fes­ti­val steer­ing com­mit­tee and Dejah Row­land, was co-chair.

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