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Bluebag Media
Annie Oakley Festival
attendance more than doubles
YORK WOODS – By noon July 25 The Annie Oakley Festival had over 600
visitors, a number they reached only after the full Saturday in 2014.
By the end of the day, committee members estimated well over 1,500
visitors. The festival is open Friday through Sunday but the high
traffic day is always Saturday after the parade.
Judy Hathaway, Annie Oakley Committee First Vice President, was
delighted. “Traffic has been good!” she exclaimed.
Committee member Laura Francis, 2011 Miss Annie Oakley, said she waves
at people… gets big smiles. “I talk to the vendors. I’ve heard mostly
positive comments. They’re happy… a lot more people here than last
year.” She attributes a lot of that to no admission or parking charges.
“When we moved out here that was one of the first things we did.”
Francis, who joined the committee in 2011, said the Festival – and the
parade in downtown Greenville – is the result of the hard work of 12
committee members and five more ‘main’ volunteers. “Most of us have
been out here every day all week, from 8 a.m. to dusk… or at home
getting stuff ready for this,” she said...
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