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Showing posts with label Annual Fallfest on YouTube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Annual Fallfest on YouTube. Show all posts

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Westminster's Fallfest continues a proud tradition

Westminster's Fallfest continues a proud tradition

By Kevin Dayhoff, September 25, 2013


Westminster’s annual Fallfest celebration begins Thursday with a parade at 7 p.m. that starts on Pennsylvania Avenue and ends just below Westminster City Hall on Longwell Avenue.

Fallfest, which boasts on its website, westminsterfallfest.com, to be “Carroll County’s largest community charity event,” then continues four days through Sunday in the center of downtown Westminster at the playground and the Westminster Family Center.

For many it is one of the highlights of the year -- a time when the greater Carroll County family gets together to celebrate everything that is wonderful about our community.

Friday evening, Sept. 27, highlights the annual Midnight Madness celebration of shopping and eating-out on Main Street in downtown Westminster.

Fallfest hours for Friday are 6 to 10 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday from 12 noon to 6 p.m.

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Although there are anecdotal stories of various community fall celebrations throughout Westminster’s history; our current version of “Fallfest,” the annual parade and Midnight Madness specifically draw upon a tradition that started many years ago when Westminster came together in September for an event sponsored by the Retail Merchants Association called “Westminster Days.”

An August 29th, 1947 article in the old, out-of-print Democratic Advocate newspaper reported, “At the weekly luncheon meeting on Monday at the Charles Carroll Hotel the Retail Merchants Association of this city, plans were completed for the Westminster Days which will be held on Sept. 25 and 26. President John R. Byers presided.”

The article then described a big parade on Thursday evening and two days of downtown merchant sales on September 25th and 26th, 1947.

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Sunday, July 06, 2008

20080706 Westminster Fallfest videos on YouTube

Westminster Fallfest videos on YouTube

July 6th, 2008

Westminster Fallfest, Inc.
P.O. Box 804, Westminster, MD 21158
www.westminsterfallfest.com

August 28, 2004

Westminster Fallfest started in 1978 to promote the awareness for the renewal of the downtown shopping district, in which our fundraising efforts center today.

During the 1980’s volunteers that organized Fallfest realized excess funds from vendor fees and other activities. The volunteers decided to distribute these funds to support local charities. After receiving positive responses from charities, the volunteers decided to broaden their efforts.

Over the years we have evolved into a multi-cultural and multifaceted organization known as Westminster Fallfest, Inc. Fallfest operates 12 months a year organizing and providing the community and local non-profit charities the opportunity to apply and be interviewed to receive excess proceeds from our various fundraising activities.

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Thursday, November 02, 2006

20060923 Fallfest pie eating contest food fight video





Fallfest pie eating contest food fight video


On September 23rd, 2006 distinguished members of Carroll County’s leadership got together for a pie eating contest during Westminster, Maryland’s 28th annual Fallfest celebration. Only a funny thing happened on the way to finishing the pie. A food fight broke out. Watch and laugh.

From right to left: Joe Cimino, Missie Wilcox, Tom Welliver, unknown, Ron Schroers and Dwight Dingle. In the background is the moderator, Lori Graham.

For previous posts on Westminster’s Fallfest click on:

20060925 Some Fallfest pictures

20060922 Westminster Fallfest Montage

20060921 One of my favorite Fallfest pictures

20060917 Who put the fun in Westminster Fallfest fundraising

20060916 A reprint of my Westminster Fallfest column from Sept 22 2004

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20060923 Fallfest pie eating contest food fight video