Volume 12
Issue 39
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2010 Schedule of Events Thursday, Oct. 7th 4:00 Presale of ! price carnival tickets ends 6:00 Carnival “Dollar Night”, ALL RIDES $1.00
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SOROPTIMIST OFFERS UNIQUE EVENT FOR BASS FESTIVAL been provided by owners Julie and Duncan McCormack; many, many thanks to them for helping us out on this event.” says chair Chandra Drury. “We are trying to put the ‘fun’ back in fundraising!” Proceeds will benefit Soroptimist service projects and scholarships.
Friday, Oct. 8th 6:00 am Fishing Derby starts 12:00 – 6:00 Fish weigh-in, 45 Main St. 4:00 pm Vendor Booths open 4:00 – 10 Carnival Rides & Games 6:00 – 10 Variety Show, Pole Barn area, Front St. Saturday, Oct. 9th 7 am Pancake Breakfast, 45 Main St. 7 am- 6pm Fish weigh-in, 45 Main St. 7 am Run Your Bass Off – fun run check in 7am, start: 8am 8 am – 2pm Classic Car Show, Main St. 10:00 Vendor booths open 10:30 – 3 Kids Street Painting, Sacramento St. near Front St. 10:00 – 5 Kids Fishing Tank, lower Main St. 10:30 – 3:30 Dutra Museum of Dredging; Free Self-Guided Tours 12:00 – 10 Carnival Rides & Games 11:00 – 3:30 Karaoke Open Mic & Idol Contest – Pole Barn area 2:00 – 5:00 Soap Box Derby: Set-up, Race, Awards - Main St. 4:00 – 11 Live Music, Pole Barn area 7:00 – 9 Discovery Cruises: dessert/fireworks, The Point Waterfront Dock 8:30 Fireworks! in the river Sunday, Oct. 11th 8:00 – 10 Motorcycle Registration, Bank of Stockton Parking Lot 9:00 – 3 Fish weigh-in, 45 Main St. 10:00 – 2 Motorcycle Show, Main St. 10:00 Vendor booths open 10:30 – 3:30 Dutra Museum of Dredging; Free Self-Guided Tours 11:00 – 3:30 Karaoke Open Mic & Finals & Awards – Pole Barn area 12:00 - 5 Carnival Rides & Games 12:00 – 2 Soroptimist Sheep Plop Bingo, intersection Main & Front St. 3:30 Karaoke Awards – Pole Barn area 4:00 Bass Derby ends, Awards, Raffle drawing: 45 Main St. 5:00 Carnival and Vendors close
October 06, 2010
Soroptimist of Rio Vista plans an entertaining and unusual event for the Bass Festival. Sunday noon, October 10, the intersection of Front and Main will be laid out as a giant Bingo board, for the club’s firstever Sheep Plop. Tickets are $5.00 each, and the lucky individual in whose square a sheep, uh, plops, will win $1000. Second and third prizes are $500
and $250. There are only 1600 tickets available. People should buy multiple tickets to increase their chances of winning! They can be purchased from any Soroptimist member, from Books Rio V or during the Bass Festival at the Soroptimist Booth at corner of Front and Main! You need not be present to win. Three sheep have
The squares coincide with the numbers on the raffle tickets. On the day of the raffle, there will be a poster with the numbers listed on it that coincides with the squares in the “corral.” If a plop lands on a line, the square with the most “PLOP” gets the prize. If it is too close to call…the prize will be split between the squares.
Delta Farmers Market’s Opening a Success
The Delta Farmers Market had a huge opening on October 1st. Over 300 people attended the Ribbon Cutting. As of Saturday afternoon of 2000 people had come by. They are open 7 days a week, stop in and do some shopping.
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