August 2018
August 2018
The Liberty Leader Newspaper
Volume 16 Issue 8
Celebrate Liberty Festival A Huge Success
Back in 1999 Celebrate Liberty's Children which was an advocacy group to get kids age 0-5 healthy and ready for school was born. This was a function of the Liberty Chamber and local community volunteers. To kick this off they held a festival that was a great down home day centered around what our town is called , Liberty. From this spark we have what we enjoyed this July. In addition the committee changed the name from Liberty July Celebration back Events Calendar to Celebrate Liberty Festival. This year thanks to the generosity of Janice and Andy Sykes, Chip Butler and Liberty Rotary they covered the cost for the FREE KID-ZONE, where all kids played for free at no cost. This are included August climbing walls, inflatables to water rides. A huge winner was also the Liberty Fire Dept for providing not only fire 6 VBS Pg.6 trucks for kids to see but the ladder truck spraying water down for kids to enjoy. The Liberty Police Dept was very 7 Revival Pg. 5-6 instrumental in helping with the safety and managing the traffic after the fireworks. The Liberty Cub scouts Troop 11 Grand Opening Pg.19 502 provided this years free old fashion gaming area. Liberty Food Lion provided the free watermelons for the kids 17 Movie Night Pg. 10 to compete in the watermelon roll and the watermelon eating contest. As you can see listed below is the numerous 18 Community Meeting Pg.5 sponsors that contributed that allowed this event to take place. This year we 18 Fishing Tournament 22 Back to School Bash Pg.12 moved the stage to First UMC church ground and the shade trees provided 25 Free Hair Cut Pg. 29 much needed relief from the sun while the stage provided great music and demonstrations of the local Southeastern Karate and Sapphire Dance Future Dates Studio. A second stage was added on Swannanoa Ave to allow extra music. Fried Chicken and BBQ Sale A whole new addition was added this year with great success. That would Sept. 29 Pg.4 be the first ever Beer Garden in Liberty. Four Saints Brewery was the host Dental Bus Oct. 5 Pg.4 vendor and many thanks for Joel the owner that helped the town make sure all was in line. A special thanks to Councilmen Chris Compton that provided Next Edition a great shaded location. A super huge thank you to the Liberty Public Works Sept 7 for cleaning up the area after the festival that was a late night task. They also keep the trash containers emptied all day long. A long days of planning Deadline goes to the Liberty Redevelopment Committee for working out the details. Aug 31 The committee is comprised of , Town Manager Will Doerfer, Councilman Chris Compton, Teresa Bruchon, Debbie Adams, Angela Bell, Jason Clark, Ethan Morrow, Carol Wall, and Kevin Bowman. I believe the rest of this story is covered best by the pictures. Look forward to planning starting for next years festival. Many more things on tap for this coming year. If you would like to be part of Liberty Redevelopment please fee free to visit on the second Monday of each month at 5:30pm at the Liberty Town Hall.
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