The annual Toledo Summer Festival takes place at Memorial Field in Toledo Oregon on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July 27-29. Local merchants are helping promote the festival by offering freebies and reduced prices during the festival. The price to get into the festival without a button is $6 each day or advance buttons $6 for the whole festival: buy during late June and July.

Memorial Field will open at 6 p.m. Friday and at noon Saturday and Sunday for the annual festival. Carnival rides, craft and food vendors, bingo (sponsored by Toledo Active Group), a dunk tank and beer garden are featured every year.

And the bull is back, with mechanical bull rides. Watch brave cowboys and cowgirls or hop on and take a ride. Spurs are not necessary, just determination. This bull is full of twists and turns and has been saving up steam just for the festival. Prizes will be awarded for those who are the best riders.

Local merchants are helping promote the festival by offering freebies and reduced prices during the festival. The price to get into the festival without a button is $6 each day or advance buttons $6 for the whole festival buy duringlate June and July.

Kids Parade

The young and the young at heart are welcome to participate in the Kids Parade Friday evening. Everyone will meet at the Toledo Library at 5:30 p.m. for judging, and the parade will begin at 6 p.m. and go to the end of Main Street. There is no theme: dress however mom will allow you to leave the house. Bring skateboards, bikes, tricycles and hot wheels; dads are encouraged to get out their wheelbarrows and wagons, decorate them and give someone a ride.

Logging show

The traditional logging show on Saturday is a chance to see real loggers in action. Loggers will begin signing up for competition at 1 p.m., at 2 p.m. the games begin. Among them the axe throw, double buck, Jack and Jill, Jill and Jill, splicing, hook tenders race, block toss, and tug-of-war, choker setting, obstacle pole, stock saw, modified stock saw, steeple chase and the four-man relay. At the end of Saturday's games one person will be named "Bull of the Woods." Last year the award was given to Robbie Warfield.

Fireworks

The Toledo Fireworks Association, in conjunction with the Toledo Summer Festival, is making final preparations for what they bill as the most spectacular show on the Oregon coast. This traditional highlight of the weekend and begins at 10 p.m. Saturday night.

Even with record sales at the fireworks booth Independence Day weekend, donations are still needed and are being accepted at area businesses including Toledo Ace Hardware or by mail to Toledo Fireworks Association, P.O. Box 697 Toledo, Oregon, 97391.

Sunday Events

Sunday events will start with the field opening at noon. This is kids day, with a day's fun on the Carnival rides for just $5. Strong Man Competition is at 1 p.m.; the Toledo Cub Scouts Pinewood Derby is 2 p.m.; and the finals for the karaoke contest are at 3 p.m. The festival will end at 5 p.m. sponsor, making a donation, or patronizing our sponsors.

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