Freedom Days event returns to Garwin
By ANDREW POTTER, TIMES-REPUBLICANFact Box
Garwin Freedom Days schedule
(Events in city park unless otherwise noted)
Today
11 a.m. - Inflatables, food vendors, beer tent
11 a.m. - 5 p.m. - DJ music
3:30 p.m. - Professional wrestling event
6 - 8 p.m. - Pork chop dinner
8 - 11 p.m. - Teen dance
9 p.m. - 1 a.m. - JJ Ace band
Saturday
10 a.m. - 16 inch softball tournament (Akers field)
11 a.m. - Parade
11 a.m.- Activities in the park
Noon - bean bag tournament
1 p.m. - bingo
12:30 - 3:30 p.m.- Entertainment in bandstand
3:30 p.m.- Lawnmower races
5 - 8 p.m. - DJ
9 p.m. - Loose Neutral band
Fireworks - (east of football field)
After years without a town celebration, Garwin Freedom Days returned last year and drew about 500 people to the three-day festival wrapped around the July 4th holiday.
It is back this year as a two-day festival starting today and continuing Saturday.
Most of the events will take place in the city park in the center of downtown Garwin.
"It's really all about the community," said Tammie Anderson, president of the Freedom Days committee. "There's five of us on the committee who brought this back last year for the community."
Children's inflatables and food vendors will be in park throughout today beginning at 11 a.m. with professional wrestling at the park at 3:30 p.m.
A teen dance will be held and music by JJ Ace band will take place tonight.
Saturday there will be events in the park throughout the day ending with a performance by Loose Neutral at 9 p.m. with fireworks at dark.
Anderson said many of the events are free and anything that does have a cost will be inexpensive.
"We wanted everything to be affordable for families," she said.
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Contact Andrew Potter at 641-753-6611 or apotter@timesrepublican.com
