September Saturdays - 2021

For whatever reasons, the Board of Directors elected NOT to participate in the September Saturdays event this year.  Whether our participation will resume in the future is unknown at this time.  It was always great fun.

However, if it does resume in the near future, I may well be able to resume the photo documentation.  Why, you ask?  Well, since the last outing, I have stopped smoking and undergone several surgeries, including a triple by-pass, removal of a carotid artery blockage and replacement of my failing left knee.  To be honest, I am feeling better than I have in several years.

It's official!  2020 was officially our last year of participation, even though the actual activities were cancelled by the covid pandemic.  At the August 2022 meeting, it was decided that we would no longer participate in the September Saturday Festivities.  Having found it to be of no particular benefit to the Society, and in the face of steadily increasing expenses (booth fees reaching $75.00 per day for 2022), as well as the member time and effort required to set up, operate, tear down and clean up, the decision was easy.

And it's just as well.  The Webmaster would not have been able to document it (he was there for all but one of the events documented here), as there was a family reunion scheduled on that day - the first Saturday of the Festival.  This may well be the explanation for the missing years 2007 through 2012, as family reunion and Festival dates coincided.  Although I was not appointed Webmaster until 2010, which is when I began creating photographic documentation of society activities.

The city apparently intends to continue holding the festival every September, for the indefinite future, but the name is changing -- to what I'm not exactly sure.  So it appears there will be plenty of opportunities to attend and see what it is all about.  But first look over our previous September Saturdays event documentation so you have some idea what you're getting into.