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Warren Scott
MUCH TO SEE AND DO — The Wellsburg Applefest will return to the streets of downtown Wellsburg Friday via Oct. 5, with a wide range of meals and different distributors, stay leisure and contests and actions for kids.

WELLSBURG — In its forty sixth yr, the Wellsburg Applefest has been providing a wide range of meals, leisure and issues for individuals of all ages to see and do.

And this yr will probably be no completely different, when the pageant returns Friday via Oct. 5.

Several blocks of Charles Street will probably be lined with greater than 100 distributors promoting hand-made gadgets and different merchandise and various meals, together with apples served by the bag and in apple cider, butter and pies.

On Oct. 4, younger distributors, age 15 and below, are invited to workers their very own cubicles from 9 a.m. to six p.m. on the adjoining Wellsburg Town Square.

Ernie Jack, who with Frank Johnson heads the volunteer Wellsburg Applefest Committee, stated there’s no cost for his or her cubicles as a result of the expertise is meant to show youth to the observe of working a enterprise.

The cubicles could serve to boost funds for numerous college, church or different youth-related teams, however adults are requested to be concerned solely with organising between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. that day.

Those taken with collaborating can name (304) 737-1599 for info.

This yr, the west facet of the city sq. will probably be occupied by free bounce homes co-sponsored by the Wellsburg Applefest Committee and Weirton Rental Center.

The sq. additionally has served as stage for a wide range of musicians and different entertainers.

This yr’s lineup consists of the Wellsburg Primary School Kindergarten at 1 p.m., keyboardist/vocalist Marvin Whiteman at 2 p.m.; the Mount Tabor Collective, a dance group, at 4 p.m.; and nation singer-guitarist Roger Hoard at 6 p.m., all on Friday; Donnie D., previously of the Vogues, at 11 a.m.; crowning of the Applefest Queen and different royalty, at midday; Donnie D. once more at 1 p.m.; Elvis tribute artist Robert Dale at 2 p.m.; guitarist-vocalist Mark Henderson at 3 p.m.; vocalist Johnna Leary, a neighborhood native who has appeared in movie, tv and theater, at 4 p.m.; guitarist D. David Stiles at 5 p.m.; and the Ron Retzer Trio at 6 p.m., all on Oct. 4; and guitarist Dan Stewart at midday; the Brooke County Arts Council, the group behind Brooke Hills Playhouse, at 1 p.m.; the Brooke High Dance Team at 2 p.m., the Brenda Casey Dancers at 3 p.m., and the Denizens, a rock band, at 4 p.m.

The Oct. 4 schedule consists of chain noticed carver Jeff Rosco at 11 a.m. and a scorching canine consuming contest at midday, each on Seventh Street, and a automotive and motorbike cruise, sponsored by Team Ford Wellsburg, from midday to 7 p.m. on Sixth Street.

There will probably be a pumpkin-carving contest, during which kids will probably be tasked with creating jack-o’-lanterns utilizing security knives and with the assistance of oldsters and different relations, at 2 p.m. on the Town Square.

Among many companies supporting the pageant will probably be Main Street Bank, which is offering free face portray on all three days, and Traubert’s Pharmacy, which is sponsoring the miniature prepare rides.

The Brooke County Historical Museum and Culture Center, at 704 Charles St., and the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Museum, Education and Research Center, throughout the Brooke County Public Library, have introduced prolonged hours to coincide with the pageant.

The Brooke County Museum will probably be open from 1 p.m. to five p.m. all three days. Its many shows embody recreations of a one-room schoolhouse, a jail cell utilized by the Brooke County Sheriff’s Department in 1793 and a kitchen from the 1790s.

The ADBC Museum, which will probably be open from 10 a.m. to three p.m. Friday and Oct. 4, is believed to have the biggest assortment of things associated to prisoners of battle who have been captured by the Japanese whereas defending the Philippine Islands and compelled to stroll the Bataan Death March.

It consists of many artifacts from different facets of World War II.

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