Molson Midsummer Festival this Saturday

Miss Omak Stampede 2015 Menze Pickering places flowers on the May Pole at last year's Molson Midsummer Fest. GT File Photo
Miss Omak Stampede 2015 Menze Pickering places flowers on the May Pole at last year’s Molson Midsummer Fest. GT File Photo

MOLSON – The community of Molson would like to invite everyone young and old, to come to the June 18 Molson Midsummer Festival, a Molson summer fun day that has something for everyone.

Start your day at 8 a.m. with the pancake feed at the Grange Hall, all you can eat for $8.00. Sign up for the “Run, Walk or Shuffle race” at 9 a.m. and see the lakes. Park your classic car at the school house and get geared up for the parade at 10:30 p.m. The organizers of the event would like to remind everyone that almost anything that walks or rolls is encouraged to participate in the parade; classic cars, tractors, you name it. This years Grand Marshals will be the Molson/Chesaw Firefighters. The traditional May Pole (bring in summer) will take place about 11: a.m. The family games, horse shoe tournament and scavenger hunt start right after the Maypole dance. Frisbee golf is on-going and self serve. Favorite car awards will be at 2 p.m.. All day activities are; arts and crafts, vendors, drawings, and viewing the two museums

Please call Mary Louise Loe at 485-3292 for more information and Jeanette LaMonte at 509-485-2035 for arts and crafts tables. Willy Penner is in charge of the door prizes.

Sitzmark Ski Club will have the lunch concession from about 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Don’t forget to visit the Old Molson and School House Museums. Proceeds go toward the Molson-Chesaw Fire Department.