Lonsdale Community Day, Saturday, Aug. 12, was packed with activities for people to enjoy from the morning too the night.
“It was amazing,” said Shanna GutzkeKupp, executive director of the Lonsdale Chamber of Commerce, which organizes the celebration to bring the community together. “We had wonderful weather.”
Weather for the day had temperatures in the low 80s at the most and sun through the day.
Gutzke-Kupp said the festival provided activities from 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. The day started with the Skywarn pancake breakfast and ended with the Tim Sigler Band. In between there was a BBQ cook-off, ZJ’s 5K, the car cruise, Steel Domain live wrestling, the Grand Parade and the Lonsdale Ambassadors coronation.
“There were just crowds of people through the day,” Gutzke-Kupp said. She said organizers didn’t have a number of how many showed up, but each event had large crowds. “We are so grateful for the people who came out to support the festival.”
The Grand Parade at 1 p.m. had roughly 67 units. Dwayne and Sandy Tuma were the grand marshals for the parade. Gutzke-Kupp said they have an open survey for the entire community and the chamber received several nominations for the Tumas.
“They are an amazing couple,” said Gutzke-Kupp, adding Dwayne’s Auto Shop has been a staple of the business community...
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Organizers say Lonsdale Community Day was 'amazing'
