Warren Scott
MUCH TO SEE AND DO — The Wellsburg Applefest will return to the streets of downtown Wellsburg Friday by way of Oct. 5, with a wide range of meals and different distributors, dwell leisure and contests and actions for youngsters.
WELLSBURG — In its forty sixth 12 months, the Wellsburg Applefest has been providing a wide range of meals, leisure and issues for folks of all ages to see and do.
And this 12 months can be no totally different, when the pageant returns Friday by way of Oct. 5.
A number of blocks of Charles Avenue can be lined with greater than 100 distributors promoting hand-made gadgets and different merchandise and various meals, together with apples served by the bag and in apple cider, butter and pies.
On Oct. 4, younger distributors, age 15 and underneath, are invited to workers their very own cubicles from 9 a.m. to six p.m. on the adjoining Wellsburg City Sq..
Ernie Jack, who with Frank Johnson heads the volunteer Wellsburg Applefest Committee, stated there’s no cost for his or her cubicles as a result of the expertise is meant to reveal youth to the follow of working a enterprise.
The cubicles might serve to boost funds for varied college, church or different youth-related teams, however adults are requested to be concerned solely with establishing between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. that day.
These all in favour of taking part can name (304) 737-1599 for data.
This 12 months, the west aspect of the city sq. can be occupied by free bounce homes co-sponsored by the Wellsburg Applefest Committee and Weirton Rental Heart.
The sq. additionally has served as stage for a wide range of musicians and different entertainers.
This 12 months’s lineup consists of the Wellsburg Major College Kindergarten at 1 p.m., keyboardist/vocalist Marvin Whiteman at 2 p.m.; the Mount Tabor Collective, a dance group, at 4 p.m.; and nation singer-guitarist Roger Hoard at 6 p.m., all on Friday; Donnie D., previously of the Vogues, at 11 a.m.; crowning of the Applefest Queen and different royalty, at midday; Donnie D. once more at 1 p.m.; Elvis tribute artist Robert Dale at 2 p.m.; guitarist-vocalist Mark Henderson at 3 p.m.; vocalist Johnna Leary, a neighborhood native who has appeared in movie, tv and theater, at 4 p.m.; guitarist D. David Stiles at 5 p.m.; and the Ron Retzer Trio at 6 p.m., all on Oct. 4; and guitarist Dan Stewart at midday; the Brooke County Arts Council, the group behind Brooke Hills Playhouse, at 1 p.m.; the Brooke Excessive Dance Workforce at 2 p.m., the Brenda Casey Dancers at 3 p.m., and the Denizens, a rock band, at 4 p.m.
The Oct. 4 schedule consists of chain noticed carver Jeff Rosco at 11 a.m. and a sizzling canine consuming contest at midday, each on Seventh Avenue, and a automotive and motorbike cruise, sponsored by Workforce Ford Wellsburg, from midday to 7 p.m. on Sixth Avenue.
There can be a pumpkin-carving contest, during which kids can be tasked with creating jack-o’-lanterns utilizing security knives and with the assistance of oldsters and different members of the family, at 2 p.m. on the City Sq..
Amongst many companies supporting the pageant can be Important Avenue Financial institution, which is offering free face portray on all three days, and Traubert’s Pharmacy, which is sponsoring the miniature practice rides.
The Brooke County Historic Museum and Tradition Heart, at 704 Charles St., and the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Museum, Training and Analysis Heart, inside the Brooke County Public Library, have introduced prolonged hours to coincide with the pageant.
The Brooke County Museum can be open from 1 p.m. to five p.m. all three days. Its many shows embody recreations of a one-room schoolhouse, a jail cell utilized by the Brooke County Sheriff’s Division in 1793 and a kitchen from the 1790s.
The ADBC Museum, which can be open from 10 a.m. to three p.m. Friday and Oct. 4, is believed to have the most important assortment of things associated to prisoners of warfare who had been captured by the Japanese whereas defending the Philippine Islands and compelled to stroll the Bataan Loss of life March.
It consists of many artifacts from different points of World Warfare II.
(Scott will be contacted at wscott@heraldstaronline.com.)
