Festival offers music, food, fun

Festival offers music, food, fun

October 4, 2001

By Tom Vaughan
Mancos Times Editor

The Mancos Fall Festival 2001 promises to be as colorful as this autumn’s foliage.

Set for Friday, Oct. 5, through Sunday, Oct. 7, the festival features everything from dancing to live music to a Memory Walk for the Alzheimer’s Association.

On Friday evening, the Krehbiels will be offering wagon rides behind their Clydesdale horses before, during and after a barbecue dinner, which starts at 5 p.m. in Boyle Park.

Jon Bower warms up his vocal cords and your ears at 6, followed by the Bar-D Wranglers at 7.

Saturday’s big morning event is the Memory Walk to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association. Registration for the walk starts at 8 a.m. in Boyle Park, the starting gun fires at 9, and awards will be announced at 11. Call Linda Malinsky at 533-9031 days or 533-9114 evenings for information on registering or helping out.

Also on Saturday, you can stoke your furnace with a pancake breakfast, provided by the Lions Club, before a day of shopping in town and at the park. There will be a variety of vendors, as well as activities for the kids, all to the accompaniment of a stellar succession of live musicians in the park.

A pie-toss competition will benefit the planned skate park. The pie toss has so many volunteer "victims" it will now run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Boyle Park.

"Targets" include Mancos school representatives Jon Bower, Kevin Mullikin and Gary Hill, Mancos Times editor Tom Vaughan, Mancos Elementary Principal Sine Skaggs, Marshal David Palacios, Deputy Marshal Brandon Brown, Mayor Greg Rath, Town Administrator Tom Glover, and Mancos Valley Bank President Malcom Cannon.

The Mancos Valley Chamber of Commerce, which sponsors the fall festival, has not shied away, either. Board members Conn Marsden, Lisa Tibbets, Janice Hall and Joan Brind’Amour have agreed to step up and take their medicine.

While the pie-toss mess is being cleaned up, there will be a square-dance demonstration, followed by a teen dance in the park from 7-10 p.m. and a square dance at the old gym from 8-10.

Sunday offers a chance to browse the farmers’ market and the vendors’ stalls beginning at 9 a.m., while the kids enjoy face-painting and miniature horses. Musical offerings on Sunday include Donny Johnson from Cortez, the Celtic group Beltaine from Durango and Mancos’ own Linda Malinsky. Check out the silent auction behind the town hall, too.