LORDSTOWN Village prepares for apple cider festival
Food, crafts, rides and homemade cider will be featured at the festival.
LORDSTOWN -- The village will be bustling this weekend during the annual Lordstown Apple Cider Festival on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Tom Dietz, an organizer, said the event has taken place for more than 20 years. It started as a way for high school classes to raise money and has become an opportunity for organizations such as the Lions Club to raise money for college scholarships, Dietz said.
The Lions make and sell homemade cider. There will be a dozen more food vendors.
Friday's events will run from 3 p.m. to midnight. From 4 to 7 p.m., there will be a chicken dinner at the Trumbull Career and Technical Center put on by the Lordstown Christian Church. The festival's king and queen pageant will be at 8 p.m. at the center.
On Saturday, events include the 10 a.m. Chalk on the Sidewalk. Beginning at noon, there will be free blood pressure and eye screenings, car show and rides. Craft, quilt and culinary arts will be at the career center, and there will be rides by Amusement Rides of Lewisville, Ohio.
The Trumbull County Board of Elections will demonstrate the new electronic voting machines.
The One Room School House Museum will open for tours at 1 p.m, a prince and princess contest is at 1:30 p.m., bingo at 2 p.m., Lordstown Athletic Boosters spaghetti dinner at 4 p.m. at the career center, Panyard's Steel Drum Band from 7 to 9 p.m. and fireworks at 10 p.m.
Sunday events
A pancake brunch will kick off Sunday at 9 a.m. followed by a 10 a.m. five-kilometer race and church service. Rides begin at noon and bingo at 2 p.m. There will be craft, quilt and flower exhibits at the center.
Grand marshals of the 3 p.m. parade will be members of the state high school championship 4x800 relay team: Tom Andriko, Jake DiEugenio, A.J. Keeley and Seth Mansell. Andriko also broke the meet record in the 800-meter event.
Freedom Cloggers, Fun Time Cloggers, Kick It Cloggers and Rock N Country Cloggers will entertain from 6 to 8 p.m. The midway closes at 9 p.m.