{"id":22861,"date":"2018-08-03T16:30:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T20:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=22861"},"modified":"2018-07-25T16:58:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:58:33","slug":"plans-for-antwerp-day-in-the-park-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/plans-for-antwerp-day-in-the-park-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans for Antwerp Day in the Park continue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Antwerp Chamber of Commerce is busy making plans for their Annual Day in the Park festival on August 11th.\u00a0 <\/span>The theme of the day is Back Home Again to coincide with the Antwerp Alumni Reunion dinner and dance that will be held that evening. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The day will begin with a parade starting at 10:00 at the Antwerp High School.\u00a0 <\/span>It will travel down Main Street for judging, proceed past the Riverside Park and end back at the school. The Park festivities will begin at 11:00 with the National Anthem sung by\u00a0 <\/span>our very own Janelle North, a welcome by Antwerp\u2019s mayor Ray Delong, followed by a flag recognition and retirement ceremony by the local VFW Post #5087 and the Antwerp Boy Scouts Troop #143. Introduction and appreciation of the GEM of Antwerp will be made at this time.\u00a0 <\/span>There will be a wide variety of craft vendors,d food vendors, entertainment, as well as games for all ages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The bounce house will be back courtesy of Community Memorial Hospital along with the Fort Wayne\u2019s Comic\/Magician and Illusionist Jim Barron.\u00a0 <\/span>Entertainment will include The Dance Dolls performing in the afternoon along with the Antwerp Community Band. New this year is an energetic K & S Tumblefit performance and a variety of critters for you to meet courtesy of Mark\u2019s Ark.\u00a0 <\/span>We also can\u2019t forget, back by popular demand, the cutie pie contest along with a business and industry area and silent auction items.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Plan on coming out and enjoying a fun filled day in your community and celebrate \u201cBack Home Again\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Antwerp Chamber of Commerce is busy making plans for their Annual Day in the Park festival on August 11th.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1338,6,1395],"tags":[7725,5791,2596,2840],"class_list":["post-22861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-area-fairs","category-community","category-entertainment","tag-antwerp-chamber-of-commerce","tag-boy-scouts","tag-day-in-the-park","tag-riverside-park"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t