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Poultry Days 2013
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3 Days of
Friends, Music & Chicken
By Bob Robinson
VERSAILLES – About 80,000 visitors descended on the Village of
Versailles for its 62nd Annual Poultry Days Festival on June 14, 15 and
16. Visitors were hungry, with the chicken line often extending from
the serving tent to the Social Tent several hundred feet to the north.
Waiting time could be an hour or more. According to an early evening
announcement, the four drive-thru lines had been full since they opened
at 3:30 p.m.
Six thousand chicken dinners were prepared for Friday and sold out by
early evening; 10,000 “birds” were prepared for Saturday with several
thousand more planned for Sunday. Final estimate of chickens sold,
according to Poultry Days Publicity chair Toni Riegle, was more than
25,000.
Visitors were thirsty with an estimated 243 kegs of beer, plus 50 cases
of craft beer, sold by the end of the weekend.
Forty plus “Ultimate Frisbee” teams reportedly kicked off the annual
tournament that ran from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, following the
Ultimate Frisbee Challenge on Saturday. The Poultry Days Festival has a
new Miss Chick, Lauren Gehret, and a new Little Miss Poultry Days,
Alivia Addis. A new event added for 2013 was Mister and Miss SuperFit
Challenge.
Poultry Days grounds at the old high school were packed with visitors
Friday and Saturday. There was a variety of rides and events to keep
the kids entertained, and plenty of good food to keep hunger pains down
while waiting for the chicken line to get shorter.
In addition to the Grand Parade and Ultimate Frisbee, there was Tour de
Versailles events, adult tricycle races, Kiddie Tractor Pull, 5K
run/walk, Arts & Flower and Photography shows, a variety of musical
entertainment groups and more.
Themed Poultrystock, the 2013 Versailles Poultry Days featured “3 Days
of Friends, Music & Chicken.”
Published courtesy of the Early Bird
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Jaime
Wombolt, County News Online, talks to visitors about the Early
Bird and dozens of sponsors who are
supporting the Senior Scribes
Scholarship Fund in providing assistance to Darke County students
heading for college.
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