City to hold annual Summer Festival
Mount Pleasant will hold its annual Summer Festival from Thursday to Saturday at Island Park.
The festival will feature car shows, amusement park rides, a wide variety of vendors, concerts and more. Tickets for each day are $4.
One event is the festival parade which will start at 7 p.m. Friday. Robin Curtis, planner and manager of the parade, said it will be filled with a quality line up.
"We have a grand marshall, the Isabella County Royal Court, and three very large trucks," Curtis said. "There will be a couple of church groups and some people from Central Michigan University dressed up in costumes. It'll last about half an hour. It's not very large, but it is a nice parade."
The parade will start and end at Sacred Heart Parish Church at 302 South Kinney Avenue.
During the three days of the festival, vendors from around mid-Michigan will be setting up stands and selling a wide variety of items said Margaret Pratt, who organized vendor registration for the festival.
"There will be food vendors, metal sculptures--there's even a gentlemen selling cloth used to wipe windows from China," Pratt said. "There is such an array of people coming and so many different types of food will be available, from Mexican to Indian."
Wrapping up the festival activities, attendees can see an array of old cars at the Rods in the Park Car Show from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday at Island Park. Free dash plates are given to the first 100 registered cars.
Karlene Kiser is helping put on the car show, and said the car voted on the most will earn a best-in-show trophy.
"We had a Studebaker come last year and it won best in show," Kiser said. "It really just depends on who shows up with what. There could even be Model A's."
If cars are too grounded for attendees, they can have the chance to learn how to fly a remote controlled helicopter at the Mid-Michigan Radio Controlled Helicopter Association booth from 2 to 8 p.m. on Friday. Randi Gibson, MMRCHA president, said attendees will be able to learn about the hobby.
"This festival gives the younger audience a chance to get involved in a cool hobby like this," Gibson said. "We'll be flying demonstrations throughout the day."
