Tentative Schedule for Celebrate America

Celebrate America!

An all-day event on June 30, 2012

Rodney White Olympic Park (behind the Hermitage PA Municipal Building)

organized by the Mercer County Christian Coalition

Tentative General Plan for the Day:

All events free and open to the public (except for vendors – e.g. food vendors, t-shirt sales – some others might accept free-will offerings to help cover their expenses)

Main Stage – flatbed semi trailer

9:00        Bluegrass Music

9:30        Opening ceremony: Prayer, National Anthem, Pledge of Allegiance
(pending: massed color guards from veterans’ organizations)

9:45        Welcome, Announcements about events of the day

10:00     Patriotic Speaker

10:30     Music/YMCA Line Dancing

10:45     Patriotic Speaker or historical re-enactors

11:15     Music

11:30     Speaker or historical re-enactors

Afternoon: Music and entertainment (pending)

We invite  other speakers/entertainers/musicians to perform – pre-registration required – see contact information below.

Around the Grounds

Food vendors:

·         Franks for the Memories

·         Kettle Korn

·         Lion’s Club: Mexican Food

·         Baptist Church Youth Group

·         Brewster’s Ice Cream

Demonstrations/Exhibits

·         Archery Demonstration – Gold n’ Grain Archery (where Rodney White learned to shoot)

·         Equipment display from the Army National Guard Alpha Battery 1-107^th Field Artillery

·         French & Indian War/Colonial era military re-enactment

·         Military reenactments from other historical periods (pending)

·         Military footlocker/memorabilia displays (pending)

·         VA Mobile Van

·         Alpaca Outback

·         Police K-9 unit (pending)

·         Baton groups (pending)

·         Boy Scouts (pending)

·         Girl Scouts (pending)

We welcome  other appropriate demonstrators/exhibitors – pre-registration required – see contact information below.

12:00 – 3:00 “Tickle-a-Vehicle” – display of vehicles for kids and adults to check out, climb on, operate (e.g. lights, sirens, lifts, when feasible and safe) - as many of the following as we can get:  Fire Truck, Police Car, Garbage Truck, Street Sweeper, Front End Loader, Back Hoe, Dump Truck, Snow Plow,  Bobcat, Ambulance, Race Car, Tractor, Postal Truck, Semi, Army Truck, Humvee, Cement Mixer, Cherry Picker, School Bus, Tow Truck, TV News Truck, UPS or Fed-Ex Truck, ETC.

1:00 – 4:00 Classic Car and Motorcycle Drive-In – pre-registration not required

Information Tables/Tents/Booths

                                ($25 charge per 10’ x 10’ space
                                – participants must bring own tables/chairs, canopies)

·         Patriotic/religious/civic/service groups

·         War on Terror Foundation/Movable Vietnam Wall

·         Johnny Angel and the Halos with the Greenville Symphony ticket sales

·         Mercer County Christian Coalition

·         Commonwealth Foundation

·         Energy Citizens

·         Model building group

·         History of bluegrass music/Display of bluegrass musical instruments

·         Political Parties and Candidates (all are invited)

We welcome individuals, organizations, and businesses who would like exposure to a broad audience – Pre-registration required – see contact information below.

All afternoon: Families invited to bring blankets, chairs, tables, paper plates, utensils to picnic on the lawn with their own food or (to give Mom a break!) food from the above listed vendors.

Contributions to help allay the general costs of the event and to sponsor particular speakers/reenactors/events  will be gratefully accepted.

Contact Information: Anyone wanting to participate in any facet of the event or contribute financially should contact Mercer County Christian Coalition President Joe Zentis – if possible, before June 12.

 – email: jjzentis@gmail.com – Phone: home 724-347-1209 – cell 724-301-3292