Fair season opens with a Harleysville festival
Published: Thursday, May 20, 2010
By BRIAN BINGAMAN
Warning: the Memorial Day holiday weekend is closer than you think.
For the last 43 years, Memorial Day weekend has meant Harleysville Country Fair Days at the Harleysville Community Center at 435 Park Drive, Lower Salford.
The rides and games open the Wednesday before Memorial Day, providing an early start to the holiday weekend that marks summer's unofficial start, and runs through Saturday. This year, those dates are May 26-29.
Oscar's Amusement Company returns as the ride provider, which means favorites like the Gravitron, the Sizzler and the Startrooper are back.
Organized by the Harleysville Jaycees, which has been around 55 years, Country Fair Days is the organization's largest fundraiser, and supports local charities and nonprofit organizations, including the Harleysville Community Center, Souderton Area High School Drug and Alcohol Resistance Team, and the Harleysville YMCA.
Justin Jandrisitz, the Country Fair Days publicity chair for the Harleysville Jaycees, said one thing your dollars spent on food and beverage tickets do is provide turkeys to local families in need, come Thanksgiving.
The Jaycees are easy to spot during Country Fair Days. They're the ones with the yellow shirts cooking food by the baseball stadium entrance and the pool complex.
"Last year we set a record in sales of wings," said Jandrisitz, mentioning one of the menu options.
By BRIAN BINGAMAN
Warning: the Memorial Day holiday weekend is closer than you think.
For the last 43 years, Memorial Day weekend has meant Harleysville Country Fair Days at the Harleysville Community Center at 435 Park Drive, Lower Salford.
The rides and games open the Wednesday before Memorial Day, providing an early start to the holiday weekend that marks summer's unofficial start, and runs through Saturday. This year, those dates are May 26-29.
Oscar's Amusement Company returns as the ride provider, which means favorites like the Gravitron, the Sizzler and the Startrooper are back.
Organized by the Harleysville Jaycees, which has been around 55 years, Country Fair Days is the organization's largest fundraiser, and supports local charities and nonprofit organizations, including the Harleysville Community Center, Souderton Area High School Drug and Alcohol Resistance Team, and the Harleysville YMCA.
Justin Jandrisitz, the Country Fair Days publicity chair for the Harleysville Jaycees, said one thing your dollars spent on food and beverage tickets do is provide turkeys to local families in need, come Thanksgiving.
The Jaycees are easy to spot during Country Fair Days. They're the ones with the yellow shirts cooking food by the baseball stadium entrance and the pool complex.
"Last year we set a record in sales of wings," said Jandrisitz, mentioning one of the menu options.
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