Summerfest 2017 Weekend schedule of events
Boone Goddard
Children enjoy the fun activities at last year’s Rotary Chili Cook-off. Chili cook-off competitors will come together again this year at Riverside Park on Saturday, Aug. 12, to enjoy great chili and raise funds for children’s programs.
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Friday, Aug. 11
- Poker run around downtown streets
- 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Free concert with Highway 93 and some of Sam’s band following poker run at The Red Lion
Saturday, Aug. 12
- 9 am. – 2 p.m. Car show on downtown streets with poker walk for high and low hand.
- 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. 46th Annual Sandpiper Gallery Art Festival on the Lake County Courthouse Lawn
- Noon - 2 p.m. The 11th annual Rotary Chili Cook-off will be held at Riverside Park. Make sure you purchase your raffle tickets, ($25 per ticket or 5 tickets for $100), to help raise funds for the Boys Scouts’ Summer Camp; the Mission Valley Aquatic Center’s bleachers, youth pool toys; and the Linderman Elementary summer program. Prizes this year include: $1000 cash, groceries and gas ($1000 total value), more than 100 bottles of wine, 2 annual golf passes, $1000 worth of local beef, and a flight seeing trip and dinner for four. Anyone wishing to enter the Chili Cook-off Contest can find contest rules and an application form on the Polson Rotary website: https://portal.clubrunner.ca/1867. For more information, call 406-883-1842 or 406-253-5452.
- 3 p.m. – 9 p.m. Aber Day Reunion concert on the new stage at the Regatta Shoreline Amphitheater on the banks of the Flathead River, featuring Andrea Harsell and Luna Roja, Legendary Mission Mountain Wood Band Reunion, Sam Riddle
* Sam is here from Las Vegas where he packs them in. Sam is the son of Mission Mountain Wood Band bass player-vocalist Steve Riddle.
Aber Day Reunion concert is family friendly; food, beer and wine vendors on site; dry camping and special motor home camping available; no animals except service dogs; no coolers or glass containers; bring lawn chairs and blankets.
Event partners are: Anderson Broadcasting Charitable Foundation; University of Montana Alumni Association; Missoula Liquid Assets Corp. (MLAC).
Tickets are on sale now: $35 for adults, $15 for ages 7 to 12 or $40 at the gate. Children age six and younger are free. Tickets can be purchased by calling KERR at 883-5255 or Mick Holien at 544-2478. They can also be purchased at Polson Motorcoach & RV and at the UPS Store.
