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Heritage
Park Board Officers and the Poultry Days Board of Directors
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Poultry
Days Awards Donations
Versailles Poultry Days is a volunteer-based organization that in
addition to conducting an annual festival serves the Versailles
community by supporting community projects and activities that improve
quality of life for people of all ages. For 2017-2018 the
festival made donations to:
Rage & Rocko Fire Prevention, Versailles Historical Society,
Versailles Bike Rodeo, Versailles Life Squad, Council of Churches,
Kinder Korner, Versailles Hometown Christmas, TASKS, Versailles Youth
Wrestling, Children's Shrine Hospital, Boy Scouts, Versailles Acme
Baseball, Versailles Community Scholarship Fund, VFW, Versailles
Musical, Confident Chicks, Versailles After Prom and Heritage Park.
Poultry Days recently took time to recognize the Heritage Park
Board. The festival’s largest commitment is the 40-acre Heritage
Park in Versailles. The park is owned by Poultry Days and
operated in partnership with the Heritage Park Board. Both the
Heritage Park Board and Poultry Days are proud to offer the park
including shelters, a pond, walking track and both soccer and baseball
field for community use and athletics. The park provides a
valuable asset to the community without a burden on local tax payers.
Current projects being planned for the park are repairs to the walking
track and YOLO (You Only Live Once) is moving forward with plans to
build an amphitheater at the park. YOLO, which conducts the
Poultry Days 5K, is investing proceeds from the 5K as well as raising
funds to complete this project. It is hoped that the Amphitheatre
can be constructed within a few years and provide additional benefits
to the community.
Poultry Days thanks festival goers and the volunteers and businesses
that contribute their time and resources to the festival.
Increasing attendance and chicken sales have allowed the board to keep
pace with inflation and to invest back into the festival to maintain a
quality event. The 2018 Versailles Poultry Days Festival will be
held June 8, 9, and 10th. For more information go to
www.versaillespoultrydays.com.
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