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Finally Friday event will be biggest event of the year
Halloween theme will highlight final event for 2008.
By JEFF M. HARDISON
jhardison@lakecityreporter.com
The biggest Finally Friday event of 2008 is set for Friday in Olustee Park, said Jeff Bertram, president of Downtown Action Corp. (DAC).
Not only is the downtown park going to be hopping on Halloween, but other activities in the area promise to offer tons of fun too. There are skits and museum action set for downtown as well.
Everything is free and safe, Bertram said.
Finally Friday
Last year, Bertram said, there were approximately 3,000 participants in the Trunk-Or-Treat festivities. To put it in perspective for downtown visitors, the Fourth of July had about 25,000 people.
Music will be by Donald Johns, who Bertram noted always has done a terrific job. Justin Case, a country music band that has performed before, is also set to perform starting at 5 p.m.
Trunk Or Treat is set to take place from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. for children younger than 12. Candy is free and will be given away from decorated car trunks in the parking lot on south end of the park.
There is a costume contest for two different sets of children. One group is younger than 6, and the other group is 7 to 12.
First-, second- and third-place prizes will be awarded for the scariest and the funniest costumes from those two age groups. There are two top awards for overall scariest and overall funniest from the two groups too, Bertram said.
The free movie is Caspar.
This Finally Friday wraps up the third season for the monthly event, which takes place on the last Friday of each month. The event will resume again in January.
The DAC plans to have 10 Finally Friday events in 2009, Bertram said, in honor of the city’s 150th anniversary with a start in January. Normally there are eight Finally Friday events, from March through October.
DAC is a group of downtown merchants dedicated to preserving history and striving to keep downtown as a place to enjoy working and living as a central part of the community. All DAC workers are volunteers.
Museum fun
From 4 to 7 p.m., the Lake City-Columbia County Historical Museum wants children to visit and take part in its Halloween Party.
The museum is south of U.S. Highway 90 at 157 SE Hernando Ave.
Apple bobbing, pin the nose on the pumpkin, and a duck shooting gallery are among the activities planned.
Community theater
Also that night, the Alligator Community Theater (ACT) is holding two performances of a skit, in the parking lot next to mural on the corner of Marion and Hamilton.
The skit is a blend of six nursery rhyme stories, with some being parodied.
Students from Fort White High School in Jeanie Wilks’ English class and Harry Joiner’s drama class will perform, ACT President Dick Rosencrants said.
Directors Frank Hubert and Rebecca Dugan and Assistant Director Dee Curran are leading the
students.
The first performance is set to start at 7:15 p.m. and the second performance is at 8:30, Rosencrants said.
Not only is the downtown park going to be hopping on Halloween, but other activities in the area promise to offer tons of fun too. There are skits and museum action set for downtown as well.
Everything is free and safe, Bertram said.
Finally Friday
Last year, Bertram said, there were approximately 3,000 participants in the Trunk-Or-Treat festivities. To put it in perspective for downtown visitors, the Fourth of July had about 25,000 people.
Music will be by Donald Johns, who Bertram noted always has done a terrific job. Justin Case, a country music band that has performed before, is also set to perform starting at 5 p.m.
Trunk Or Treat is set to take place from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. for children younger than 12. Candy is free and will be given away from decorated car trunks in the parking lot on south end of the park.
There is a costume contest for two different sets of children. One group is younger than 6, and the other group is 7 to 12.
First-, second- and third-place prizes will be awarded for the scariest and the funniest costumes from those two age groups. There are two top awards for overall scariest and overall funniest from the two groups too, Bertram said.
The free movie is Caspar.
This Finally Friday wraps up the third season for the monthly event, which takes place on the last Friday of each month. The event will resume again in January.
The DAC plans to have 10 Finally Friday events in 2009, Bertram said, in honor of the city’s 150th anniversary with a start in January. Normally there are eight Finally Friday events, from March through October.
DAC is a group of downtown merchants dedicated to preserving history and striving to keep downtown as a place to enjoy working and living as a central part of the community. All DAC workers are volunteers.
Museum fun
From 4 to 7 p.m., the Lake City-Columbia County Historical Museum wants children to visit and take part in its Halloween Party.
The museum is south of U.S. Highway 90 at 157 SE Hernando Ave.
Apple bobbing, pin the nose on the pumpkin, and a duck shooting gallery are among the activities planned.
Community theater
Also that night, the Alligator Community Theater (ACT) is holding two performances of a skit, in the parking lot next to mural on the corner of Marion and Hamilton.
The skit is a blend of six nursery rhyme stories, with some being parodied.
Students from Fort White High School in Jeanie Wilks’ English class and Harry Joiner’s drama class will perform, ACT President Dick Rosencrants said.
Directors Frank Hubert and Rebecca Dugan and Assistant Director Dee Curran are leading the
students.
The first performance is set to start at 7:15 p.m. and the second performance is at 8:30, Rosencrants said.
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