The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

WAITSBURG - Ten peo­ple showed up at Tuesday night's Celebration Days meeting and hatched a plan that they are optimistic will allow Celebration Days to continue as an annual week­end event.

The group hopes that an ATV poker run and rid­ing lawnmower barrel racing will replace the sheepdog tri­Learn als that took place at the fair­grounds last year. The pos­sibility of ATV safety courses and demonstrations was also discussed. The Celebration Days Committee still has one big hurdle to jump - finding a local 501c3 that would be willing to add the event to their insurance policy, though the Committee would pay the actual insurance fee.

In addition to the tra­ditional parade, breakfast, car show, dance, dinner, etc. the group plans to focus in­creased attention on provid­ing quality family friendly events at the fairgrounds midway. Suggestions in­cluded obstacle courses, Pinewood Derby events, frog jumping, toilet seat horseshoes, mutton busting, goat-tail tying and more. All are dependent on volunteer willingness to organize and oversee the events.

The next meeting is slated for February 24 at 5 p.m. at the Waitsburg Busi­ness Center (111 Preston Avenue). More volunteers are needed and community input is welcome.