"Rainy Saturday"
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This week as been interesting. The library parking area has been blocked since Tuesday. This is the weekend of the Inola Hay Day Celebration. The first celebration was held in the 1960s. The first parade featured 11 huge flat bed trucks full of hay. I don't know what year they began having the carnival and the Miss Hay Day contest.
When my husband, Rick, my oldest daughter, Danielle, and I moved to Inola in May of 1979, our house was just off the main road on first street. The two years we lived there, we had a big engine out in front of our house running all night long to power one of the rides for the carnival. Very noisy for about 3 days. Inola use to be known as the "Hay Capital of the World". That was a big honor for such an unknown and little town. I don't know that we hold that title any more, but it does still say that on our Welcome sign, as you come into Inola on State Highway 88.
Hay Day was discontinued for a few years due to the lack of someone to organize it and money. Back in 2005, the High School Learn and Serve Class, with its leader Casey Robinson, brought it back. I didn't think it was until 2006, but the paper had a history on Hay Day and it said it was in 2005. It wasn't like it use to be. No downtown carnival rides. There were car shows and contests. Like Hay Bale throwing, skillet throwing, turtle race, painted turtle contest, frog jumping contest, cutest pet, Cow Chip Bingo, the dunk tank and more. Last year I am not sure what all they had, but there still wasn't any rides downtown.
This year the Inola Chamber of Commerce was in charge of the celebration. The carnival rides were back on Thursday and Friday evenings and on Saturday for most of the day. It rained on Friday morning and looked as if it might rain the carnival out. That didn't happen. On Friday, my daughter Cortnie and I attended the Baby Contest and the King or Queen Contest in the evening. There were four divisions in the Baby Contest. 2 for girls and 2 for boys. Entry fee was $10.00. Ist Bank Oklahoma was the sponsor of this contest. It was very hot and cloudy. We got sprinkled on a little. Then they had the Hay Day King or Queen Contest. There were to be 3 divisions of the Hay Day King or Queen Contest. Kindergarten thru 4th Grade, Middle School 5th thru 8th Grade, and High School 9th thru 12th Grade. It was to be a King or Queen this year with the winner being the one who sold the most tickets. They only had two entries, so of course they both won. The Elementary contestant a Queen sold 45 tickets. They didn't have anyone in the Middle School Division. The High School Division was a Sophomore girl, who sold 60 tickets. That is a big come down from previous years. They use to have the Miss Hay Day Contest every year. On Saturday's the carnival was in full swing most of the day. Organitions and Clubs could rent a booth to promote their organization and have a fund raiser. On Saturday, during the parade, the winner of Miss Hay Day designed and rode in her own float. In the past the Miss Hay Day's were Queens from the school. Later any girl within the set age limit could enter and sell tickets. The girl who sold the most, won Miss Hay Day. It wasn't a beauty contest until later years.
As Cortnie and I were getting ready for church, this morning, it began to rain. I figured the parade would get rained out. We headed for town an hour past when it was to start, and they were just leaving the High School to begin. We had to navigate around the parade, which made us late for church. Hopefully next year more people will know about it and enter the contests. It rained most of the morning, so I do not know what they were able to have today. It quit raining about 2:00 p.m. That is when some of the contests were to begin. I had several new people come by the library and ask me what the carnival was all about. They hadn't read about it in the paper or seen the posters. Something should be done different to get the word out, if they do it next year.
The Reading Program is over for the year. It went by fast for me. Having the children register ahead of time and changing the age limit, was a lot of help in organizing the program. I plan to do the same thing next year. Hopefully though, I will get the flyers out to the school to pass out. I failed to do that this year. This was one of our smallest groups. Oh well, atleast it was a success. That is as far as I was concerned.
Today at church, we had a Father's Day Program, to honor our dad's. Of course this day was about 2 weeks ago. Most of our congregation was attending the last service of Dover Camp. The local board decided to move our second Sabbath Lunch to the 3rd Sabbath because of Camp and then have the Father's Day Program today the 28th of June. Better late than never. Kristin Johnston and Amanda Brown were in charge. I thought it was very nice. There were songs and readings about our dad's and our Heavenly Father. Kristin put together a slide show with music and pictures of different member's dads. The families were asked to bring pictures to her ahead of time, so she could put it together for today. Members will be able to purchase a CD of this for $5.00 with the funds going to buy Bibles for Overseas Missions. Of course I had to put my name on the list.
As usual this is quite lengthy. My daughter Cortnie told me last week I sure wrote a long blogg. That is true. Maybe if I got on more often, I wouldn't have so much to say. But then, it still might be long. Since I like to both talk and write.
Take care all of you and God Bless,
Starlight
This week as been interesting. The library parking area has been blocked since Tuesday. This is the weekend of the Inola Hay Day Celebration. The first celebration was held in the 1960s. The first parade featured 11 huge flat bed trucks full of hay. I don't know what year they began having the carnival and the Miss Hay Day contest.
When my husband, Rick, my oldest daughter, Danielle, and I moved to Inola in May of 1979, our house was just off the main road on first street. The two years we lived there, we had a big engine out in front of our house running all night long to power one of the rides for the carnival. Very noisy for about 3 days. Inola use to be known as the "Hay Capital of the World". That was a big honor for such an unknown and little town. I don't know that we hold that title any more, but it does still say that on our Welcome sign, as you come into Inola on State Highway 88.
Hay Day was discontinued for a few years due to the lack of someone to organize it and money. Back in 2005, the High School Learn and Serve Class, with its leader Casey Robinson, brought it back. I didn't think it was until 2006, but the paper had a history on Hay Day and it said it was in 2005. It wasn't like it use to be. No downtown carnival rides. There were car shows and contests. Like Hay Bale throwing, skillet throwing, turtle race, painted turtle contest, frog jumping contest, cutest pet, Cow Chip Bingo, the dunk tank and more. Last year I am not sure what all they had, but there still wasn't any rides downtown.
This year the Inola Chamber of Commerce was in charge of the celebration. The carnival rides were back on Thursday and Friday evenings and on Saturday for most of the day. It rained on Friday morning and looked as if it might rain the carnival out. That didn't happen. On Friday, my daughter Cortnie and I attended the Baby Contest and the King or Queen Contest in the evening. There were four divisions in the Baby Contest. 2 for girls and 2 for boys. Entry fee was $10.00. Ist Bank Oklahoma was the sponsor of this contest. It was very hot and cloudy. We got sprinkled on a little. Then they had the Hay Day King or Queen Contest. There were to be 3 divisions of the Hay Day King or Queen Contest. Kindergarten thru 4th Grade, Middle School 5th thru 8th Grade, and High School 9th thru 12th Grade. It was to be a King or Queen this year with the winner being the one who sold the most tickets. They only had two entries, so of course they both won. The Elementary contestant a Queen sold 45 tickets. They didn't have anyone in the Middle School Division. The High School Division was a Sophomore girl, who sold 60 tickets. That is a big come down from previous years. They use to have the Miss Hay Day Contest every year. On Saturday's the carnival was in full swing most of the day. Organitions and Clubs could rent a booth to promote their organization and have a fund raiser. On Saturday, during the parade, the winner of Miss Hay Day designed and rode in her own float. In the past the Miss Hay Day's were Queens from the school. Later any girl within the set age limit could enter and sell tickets. The girl who sold the most, won Miss Hay Day. It wasn't a beauty contest until later years.
As Cortnie and I were getting ready for church, this morning, it began to rain. I figured the parade would get rained out. We headed for town an hour past when it was to start, and they were just leaving the High School to begin. We had to navigate around the parade, which made us late for church. Hopefully next year more people will know about it and enter the contests. It rained most of the morning, so I do not know what they were able to have today. It quit raining about 2:00 p.m. That is when some of the contests were to begin. I had several new people come by the library and ask me what the carnival was all about. They hadn't read about it in the paper or seen the posters. Something should be done different to get the word out, if they do it next year.
The Reading Program is over for the year. It went by fast for me. Having the children register ahead of time and changing the age limit, was a lot of help in organizing the program. I plan to do the same thing next year. Hopefully though, I will get the flyers out to the school to pass out. I failed to do that this year. This was one of our smallest groups. Oh well, atleast it was a success. That is as far as I was concerned.
Today at church, we had a Father's Day Program, to honor our dad's. Of course this day was about 2 weeks ago. Most of our congregation was attending the last service of Dover Camp. The local board decided to move our second Sabbath Lunch to the 3rd Sabbath because of Camp and then have the Father's Day Program today the 28th of June. Better late than never. Kristin Johnston and Amanda Brown were in charge. I thought it was very nice. There were songs and readings about our dad's and our Heavenly Father. Kristin put together a slide show with music and pictures of different member's dads. The families were asked to bring pictures to her ahead of time, so she could put it together for today. Members will be able to purchase a CD of this for $5.00 with the funds going to buy Bibles for Overseas Missions. Of course I had to put my name on the list.
As usual this is quite lengthy. My daughter Cortnie told me last week I sure wrote a long blogg. That is true. Maybe if I got on more often, I wouldn't have so much to say. But then, it still might be long. Since I like to both talk and write.
Take care all of you and God Bless,
Starlight
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