Loganton to celebrate Memorial Day Weekend with festival and parade
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LOGANTON -- Loganton will be in all of its small-town American glory over the upcoming Memorial Day weekend, as Sugar Valley celebrates country and community while, at the same time, honoring our fallen service men and women who died while serving in America's armed forces.
SVRCS ATHLETIC
BOOSTERS FESTIVAL
The Sugar Valley Rural Charter School Athletic Boosters invite the public to their fifth annual two day Memorial Weekend Festival May 26 and 27. Friday night the festival will be open from 6-10 p.m, and on Saturday from 5-9 p.m. The festival is held at the Sugar Valley Fire Company grounds at 24 W. Anthony St. in Loganton, behind the new banquet hall.
Numerous organizations and vendors will be on hand selling a variety of foods including favorite fair munchies like hot sausage sandwiches, burgers, french fries and ice cream. There will be carnival style games like dime pitch, ducky pond, a golf game, face painting, a cake wheel and ticket auction.
Entertainment on Friday night will start at 6 p.m. with DJ Morris Music, followed by the SVRCS High School Band at 6:30 p.m., and St. John's Choir gospel music at 7:30 p.m. DJ Morris Music will close up the evening with dance music of yesteryear and today. Saturday's musical lineup will feature the Sugar Valley Community Band from 5-6 p.m., DJ Morris Music beginning at 6 p.m., and at 7 p.m. Dusty Heggenstaller will sing a mixture of popular country and pop hits.
MEMORIAL DAY PARADE
and FESTIVITIES
On Memorial Day, Monday, May 29, the Sugar Valley Parade Committee presents the annual Loganton Memorial Day Parade honoring all veterans, past and present, who have served in the United States military.
In the morning hours, and during the parade, churches and other vendors will sell food, crafts and drinks near the town's main intersection and outside the Albright United Methodist Church on East Main Street.
There will be a tractor show at the corner of East Main Street and Bishop Street, and all are welcome to stop and see the array of vintage and modern tractors on display.
The parade will begin at 2 p.m. and will form at the east end of Loganton, marching west, through most of West and East Main Streets. Lineup for parade participants is at 1 p.m. at the east end of Loganton. Floats and cars should line at the Dusty Boots grounds; and tractors and bands at the Sugar Valley Rural Charter School.
Immediately following the parade there will be a Memorial Day service in the center of town near the intersection of Main and Mill Streets. Loganton Mayor David Shreckengast, Clinton County Commissioner Angela Harding, and Master of Ceremonies Scott Kemmerer, will all give welcome speeches and talk about what Memorial Day means to a small town like Loganton.
Dustin Kinley, Administrator for the Veterans Multi-Service Center, will be the keynote speaker, and Pastor Dan Reed from the Loganton Wesleyan Church will offer the invocation and benediction. Lifelong Sugar Valley resident, Sgt. Kirk A. Johnson, of the United States Marine Corps, will place a wreath at the Honor Roll at the Sugar Valley Armed Services Memorial.
Patriotic music will be performed by the Sugar Valley Community Band during the ceremony.
The Sugar Valley Community Fire Company will be selling charcoal grilled chicken dinners at their firehouse 30 minutes after the parade ends.Takeouts for chicken only (with no sides) are available starting at 10:30 a.m. The Sugar Valley Fire Company will be selling tickets for their annual raffle during the festival, and also on Memorial Day by volunteers walking the sidewalks before and during the parade. The drawing for the raffle will be after the chicken barbecue, at the firehall, at approximately 5:30 p.m.