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One of the cornerstones of New England fall weather is its iconic foliage. Among the premier places these vegetation enthusiasts venture to is the Warner Fall Foliage Festival. The volunteer-led event began in 1947 as a way to gather people the season before winter, where the town would see countless tourists who came to ride its 1,200-foot ski tow.

“When you move into Warner the first or second call you get is not ‘Welcome to Warner’ but ‘What can you do on Columbus Day weekend? What are you doing?’ ” said Ray Martin, now president of the event. “And so I got involved.”

What started as a way to get the Boston ski bus moving a couple months earlier blossomed into a festival that regularly draws up to 10,000 people on each of its two weekend days. This year’s event falls on Oct. 8 and 9 in the Warner Town Square.

The volunteer need has ballooned since 1947 due to the everexpanding event. There are fair rides, chicken and lobster barbeques, vendors, road races – a one miler for the kids on Sunday after a 5k on Saturday – and two parades.

And, of course, you can’t forget about the star of the event.

Sunday’s grand parade – not to be confused with Saturday’s children’s parade – is filled with around 11 or 12 leaf-themed floats competing for prizes.

Putting on what is the biggest foliage event in the Concord area has a tremendous impact on community development in the region.

Through donations alone, the festival raises anywhere from $15,000 to $25,000 in a given year. The best part for Martin? It all stays in the town of almost 3,000.

“It’s like a mini United Way,” Martin playfully remarked.

Even when COVID-19 broke out in spring 2020, the city-wide connectedness could not be dampened.

“Two years ago we had what we call the virtual one,” Martin recalled. “We still had a road race, just digitally timed, fundraisers,

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Cancer events in the country. This year, like last year, will include walkers from across the state, and like always, it will be kicked off by a parade of survivors.

“It’s not only raising awareness that breast cancer exists but raising the funds to support the research that so many important people are doing,” said Kathy Roberto, a nurse and volunteer who herself was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019.

Cyndey Dodge, event co-chair of raffle tickets, sponsorships, donaMaking Strides, began her involvetions. Things like that, which ment over 20 years ago after losing raised $10,000 for the food her sister to breast cancer. pantry.”

When Dodge began her involveThe success of a remote celebrament, Making Strides had about 200 tion had the team poised to make a participants. Back when just a couple hundred people participated strong comeback in fall 2021, but in the event, Dodge wondered if the Delta variant upended those few people were aware of the toll plans. With mere months before it the disease took. was set to kick off, a once opti“Maybe back then we didn’t have Each year in October, thousands mistic group canceled the event altogether for the first time in its 75- of pink-clad walkers pick their way enough awareness,” Dodge said. “I through Concord to raise awareness appreciate the hope that today year history. brings for everybody, that they’re in the fight against breast cancer.

But this year, the show will go not alone.”

But they do more than just raise on.

Join the walk for Making Strides awareness. They raise hundreds of “Well, it’s typically the same thing that doesn’t change a lot, thousands of dollars for the Amer- of NH 2022 on Sunday, Oct. 16. The walk will start and end at Memorial though we do have music now. We ican Cancer Society. have the Main Street Bookends’ This year is the 30th anniversary Field in Concord. Learn more or get involved at makoutdoor amphitheater that we of one of the most successful ingstrideswalk.org/newhampshire. bring in a lot of musical acts Making Strides Against Breast starting Friday night and then all day Saturday and Sunday,” Martin said.

The layout of downtown Warner makes it the perfect setting to expand the event in this direction.

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Come stop in and see Orchestrating this against a our renovated location Monet-like backdrop hasn’t always and new menu! panned out with an erratic New Hampshire climate, though. But it is those experiences that remind Martin why he is a part of the festival in the first place.

“When it snowed was pretty inFollow u teresting. Another time we had all s the tents set up and on Friday night Instagra on Monday - Friday 6:30 am - 6:00 pm a big storm came through and blew and Fac m Saturday 7:00 am - 4:00 pm ebook them all down. So we had to put them all back up,” he said cheerily.

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