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May
28
Fri
Annual Fundraiser Auction & Supper @ Heritage Community Center
May 28 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Bates Brother’s Amusements – Indian Mound Mall @ Indian Mound Mall
May 28 @ 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
The Carnival is coming to town! Get excited and tell your friends!
Wednesday- 5 – 10pm $17
Thursday- 5 – 10pm $17
Friday- 5 – 10pm $17
Saturday- 12 – 10pm $20
Sunday- 12 – 10pm $20
Monday- 12 – 8pm $17
Tickets
$1.00 each or 12 for $10.00
Kid rides take 3 tickets and Major rides take 4 tickets
May Final Friday Concert Series @ The Brickyard
May 28 @ 5:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Live music at The Brickyard!

May
29
Sat
CANCELLED Utica Sertoma Ice Cream Festival @ Velvet Ice Cream
May 29 @ 9:00 am – 6:00 pm

We are sad to inform all our many followers that the 2021 Utica Sertoma Ice Cream Festival has been cancelled. We find it impossible to meet the requirements handed down by the State of Ohio. We hope to see everyone at tour 2022 Festival. Please share this with as many as you can.

Utica Sertoma Ice Cream Festival at Ye Olde Mill and Velvet Ice Cream Company:  What’s summer without ice cream. If you like ice cream, you will love this festival, which has plenty of that and more. A mile south of Utica, Ohio, the Utica Old Fashion Ice Cream Festival on the grounds of Velvet Ice Cream Co. is held every year on Memorial Day Weekend. This festival starts with the grand parade to kick off the celebration. Over 90 artisans and food vendors come to the event every year. The festival starts out with an ice cream parade. Anyone can participate in the Velvet Ice Cream ice cream eating contest. Other events include live musical performances, egg tosses, pony rides, a car show, motorcycle show and a magic show. The decades old tradition brings about 40,000 people to Utica, and they gulp down more than 75,000 scoops of ice cream. Ice cream and family fun is a perfect way to kick off the summer.

Flea Market at the Richland County Fairgrounds @ Richland County Fairgrounds
May 29 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Flea Market at the Richland County Fair.  New year, new management, same monthly schedule!

Mount Vernon Farmers Market @ Downtown Mount Vernon
May 29 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
One of Mount Vernon’s most popular
downtown activities resumes next month. The 2021 Mount Vernon
Farmers Market begins Saturday, May 1, on the Public Square from
9 a.m. to noon. The market will feature vendors offering locally
grown fruits and vegetables, fresh local honey, baked goods,
homemade candy, maple syrup, goat milk soap and more.
Shoppers aged 60 and older can receive vouchers on market days from the Knox County Task Force for
Older Adults. Seniors who reside in Knox County will be eligible to sign up on the square to receive
tokens to use at the market for fresh produce, herbs, and honey. Other incentive programs offered at
the market this year will include SNAP, Produce Perks, and the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program
(SFMNP). Stop by the market information booth for details on these incentive programs.
COVID-19 protocols will continue this year until further notice. All vendors will wear masks during the
market and shoppers are strongly encouraged to wear masks as well. Hand sanitizer will be available
throughout the market. Shoppers will be encouraged to keep social distance while selecting their items.
Parking will be available around the square and in nearby lots.
The following vendors will participate this year:
Sue’s Herbs and Jellies
M & M Sugar Shack and
Produce
Honey Bee Acres
Wesco Produce
The Least of These
Veggies and Eggs by Dan
Green Valley Sweet Corn
Double G MAPLE Syrup and
Produce
Yankee Street Garlic
Simply Sweets
Eva Brisker
Angry Acres
Sweets on Saratoga
Nunda Valley Produce
Gleeson Acres
Everyberry Farm & Flora
Maple Feather Farm
Community Roots
Knox Berry Farm
Sigler Bakery
Morckel Meadows
Glasgow Family Farm
Glen Hill Orchard
For more information contact market coordinator Marty Trese at 740-501-7019
Mount Vernon Farmers Market P.O. Box 1268 Mount Vernon, OH 43050 740-501-7019
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Westerville Saturday Farmers Market @ Farmers Market
May 29 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join us this Market season for all the best locally produced produce, meats, baked goods and more! Located in Westerville’s historic Uptown.

Birdwatching for Beginners @ Grange Insurance Audubon Center
May 29 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
If you’ve wondered what birdwatching is about, but can’t even see a bird in a pair of binoculars, this is for you. Bring your binoculars or use ours. We’ll teach you tricks to start or improve upon a fun hobby. Weather permitting, we’ll go on a short hike or ‘arm chair’ bird watch.
Our Birdwatching for Beginners event is free but, due to Covid-19 pandemic, participants must register ahead of time at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center Eventbrite link at https://www.eventbrite.com/…/grange-insurance-audubon…
For more information, please contact Allison Clark, Education Program Manager at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center (614-545-5482
May
30
Sun
CANCELLED Utica Sertoma Ice Cream Festival @ Velvet Ice Cream
May 30 @ 9:00 am – 6:00 pm

We are sad to inform all our many followers that the 2021 Utica Sertoma Ice Cream Festival has been cancelled. We find it impossible to meet the requirements handed down by the State of Ohio. We hope to see everyone at tour 2022 Festival. Please share this with as many as you can.

Utica Sertoma Ice Cream Festival at Ye Olde Mill and Velvet Ice Cream Company:  What’s summer without ice cream. If you like ice cream, you will love this festival, which has plenty of that and more. A mile south of Utica, Ohio, the Utica Old Fashion Ice Cream Festival on the grounds of Velvet Ice Cream Co. is held every year on Memorial Day Weekend. This festival starts with the grand parade to kick off the celebration. Over 90 artisans and food vendors come to the event every year. The festival starts out with an ice cream parade. Anyone can participate in the Velvet Ice Cream ice cream eating contest. Other events include live musical performances, egg tosses, pony rides, a car show, motorcycle show and a magic show. The decades old tradition brings about 40,000 people to Utica, and they gulp down more than 75,000 scoops of ice cream. Ice cream and family fun is a perfect way to kick off the summer.

Flea Market at the Richland County Fairgrounds @ Richland County Fairgrounds
May 30 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Flea Market at the Richland County Fair.  New year, new management, same monthly schedule!