Enjoyable-Stuffed Labor Day Weekend in Store for the Ohio Valley | Information, Sports, Jobs

Greenwich, Ohio-based blacksmith Nathan Mutchler forges a spatula throughout final yr’s Fort Henry Days celebration at Oglebay Park Resort’s Site 1.

WHEELING — With the lengthy Labor Day weekend upon the Ohio Valley, there are many actions for households to take pleasure in because the summer time season winds down.

Many of these actions will likely be discovered this weekend at Oglebay Park Resort. Not solely will the standard Fort Henry Days pageant be held, however a number of different occasions are on the docket. Fort Henry Days, to run Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to five p.m. on the resort’s Levenson Shelter and Camp Russel, brings guests head to head with how 18th century life was led within the Ohio Valley.

Those who stroll via the pageant website will see blacksmithing, needlework and tanning, together with “Punch and Judy” kids’s reveals and meals and brewing discussions and demonstrations. The spotlight of the pageant comes at 3 p.m. every day with a reenactment of the Battle for Fort Henry on the decrease subject at Camp Russel. Reenactors in interval costume will painting settlers, together with Betty Zane and her run for the gunpowder, British troopers and Native Americans.

The enjoyable isn’t sequestered to Fort Henry Days. The resort has a full menu of occasions for guests to see. Among them is the annual Woodcarver’s Show at Oglebay’s Pine Room from 10 a.m. to five p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Master woodcarvers from throughout the nation will populate the Pine Room exhibiting off their creations.

Saturday at Oglebay’s Schenk Lake will function a foam occasion and child’s enjoyable zone from 5-7 p.m. and, at 7 p.m., the Americana Skydivers will freefall from 12,000 and land across the lake. On Sunday, music lovers will be capable to benefit from the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra’s Music Under the Stars and its “Movie Magic!” efficiency, at 7:30 p.m. on the Oglebay Amphitheatre. The efficiency pays tribute to a number of the most memorable songs from the silver display. Right after that live performance, the resort sky will gentle up with a fireworks show over Schenk Lake.

The Highlands Sports Complex will likely be hopping Saturday with its celebration, “Stronger Together,” honoring the advanced’s fifth anniversary. From 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on the advanced, situated at 225 McCormick Way at The Highlands, households can take pleasure in free sports activities clinics in addition to pickleball and cornhole tournaments, in addition to an Ohio Valley Roller Derby competitors that’s free to observe at 1:30 p.m. A portion of the method from the day will go to Ohio County flood aid. Registration for the clinics and tournaments might be discovered at highlandssports.com.

The West Virginia facet of the Ohio River isn’t the one spot for Labor Day weekend leisure. Ohio organizations will current a number of occasions. Baseball followers, particularly those that admire the game’s historical past, can go to the Old Timers’ Baseball Festival via Sunday at 421 E. Main St. in Holloway. The pageant will embody, on Saturday, an old-school baseball recreation at midday, a automotive, truck and bike present from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., and a parade at 5 p.m. Sunday brings backyard tractor pulls beginning at 9 a.m. Chance auctions, raffle tickets, meals and extra will likely be obtainable.

And on Monday, St. John’s Church at 415 thirty seventh St. in Bellaire will host a automotive, truck and bike present from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Entry price is $10. Registration goes from 10 a.m.-noon, with judging beginning at 11 a.m. and awards introduced at 3 p.m. The present will present sprint plaques, door prizes and awards for finest in present, finest bike and Top 20. For extra data, name Dominic Marinacci at 740-579-6867.