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Summerfield Founders’ Day, Enjoy live music, carnival rides, a parade, food and much more at this 19th annual town celebration by GERRI HUNT SUMMERFIELD – Folks will be side-stepping jugglers and stilt-walkers while listening to music, enjoying food and carnival rides and getting their faces painted as the town celebrates its founders and rich history on Friday and Saturday, May 15 and 16. The Founders’ Day festival was first organized in 1997 by citizens, as a way of thanking community leaders who had worked to incorporate the town a year earlier, as well as to honor the founders of the original Bruce’s Crossroads community, which became Summerfield in the early 1800s.
The 19th annual event is slated for 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The annual Founders’ Day parade will be held Saturday morning at 10 a.m. and will wind along Summerfield Road, with all other Founders’ Day activities taking place at Summerfield Athletic Park, located at 5200 U.S. 220. “We have three parking lots this year, each with its own shuttle bus running back and forth, which should speed things up,” said Cheryl Gore, the town’s
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May 15-16 events coordinator and chair of the Founders’ Day Committee (more info/ details about parking at the end of this article).
FRIDAY AT SAP Festivities will kick off Friday at 6 p.m., with what Mayor Tim Sessoms calls “Northern Night.” “The Northern High School bands will play, and we’ll be honoring the Northern sports teams and hanging out together,” he
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Summerfield Town Clerk Valarie Halvorsen poses with Skyler Light, a stilt walker and juggler who performed at last year’s Founders’ Day and will perform again this year.
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Stokesdale Community Day Photo by Gerri Hunt/NWO
From left, Stokesdale Fire Capt. Brandon Vaughn, Mallory Neal, Sydney Neal, Maddy Hudson and firefighter Cameron Parris enjoy Stokesdale Community Day, which was held at Stokesdale Town Hall on Saturday, May 2.
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