Cherry Blossom Festival seeks arts and crafts vendors
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Soon cherry blossoms with their delicate scent will dot the cherry trees on the shores of Flathead Lake. They may even be in bloom during the Cherry Blossom Festival.
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POLSON — The Yellow Bay Community Club’s 10th annual Flathead Lake Cherry Blossom Festival will be held on Saturday, May 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Arts and crafts vendors are invited to apply for space reservations by calling Shari at (406) 982-3437. This fund-raising event helps support the club’s community and charitable activities, and also helps with maintenance of the aging clubhouse.
The festival is free and open to the public, and celebrates the cherry blossoms that traditionally bloom in May. Crafters and artisans offer a large assortment of locally produced items for home and garden, as well as jewelry, lotions and accessories. Entertainment is provided all day with Frank Kuntz on the piano in the morning, and Jukebox Journey musicians Ken Edgington and Ralph Campbell in the afternoon. Lunch and bake sale items are available for purchase. Raffles and free door prizes will also be available throughout the day.
Community members are invited to join the club and participate in regular potluck dinners every first and third Saturday of the month at 6:30 p.m. The ladies’ auxiliary meets every second and fourth Thursday at noon for lunch and to work on club projects.
The Yellow Bay Community Clubhouse is at mile marker 18 on Highway 35. For more information call Barbara at (406) 982-3064 or email: hammons@centurytel.net.
According to Barbara Hammons, the ladies auxiliary president for Yellow Bay Community Club, events from last year’s Cherry Blossom Festival made donations up and down the lake possible. Sixty new teddy bears were donated to the Kalispell foster children’s Christmas party, over 20 Christmas gifts given to the Bigfork Lake View Care Center’s residents, monetary gifts were presented to Bigfork and Polson food banks and to neighborhood residents. Some funds were used for informational meetings and entertainment events.
