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View Business Events2023 Hardwick Kiwanis Spring Festival and Parade
Date: Friday, May 26, 2023 - Saturday, May 27, 2023
Time: 3:00 pm
Schedule of events: Friday:
3 - 6 pm - Farmers Market
6:30 pm - Grand marshal reception for families and friends of 2023 Grand Marshals. (Community members also welcome.)
Schedule of events: Saturday:
7am - Bird walk at the Hazen Trials. (Please park in back of Hazen Union to leave room for the parade line-up)
8 - 9:30am - Set up for vendors and info booths at Atkins Field. (This includes Chil Cook-off contestants.)
8am - Fun Run for the whole family. (This year on the Rail Trial, beginning at the Health Clinic)
9 -9:30am - Parade line up at Hazen Union parking lot.
10:10am - American Legion Memorial Day Ceremony before the parade at Memorial Park.
10:30am - Parade begins from Hazen, down Main Street, down Spring Street and around to Granite Street. (Following parade, Granite Street will be closed.)
After parade Midway opens, food vendors open, games begin. Shuttle service to people parking in other parts of town.
11:30am - Cow Plop, and Hardwick Trials and Adaptive Sports Partners presentations being on Granite Street.
Noon - Cornhole tournament
12:30pm - Pie Eating Contest in the Pavilion, 12:30pm - 2pm - Chili cook-off
1pm - Pet parade on Granite Street and Dunking booth on Atkins Field
1:30pm - Stick Horse Derby
2pm - Guessing jars (also at 2:30pm, 3pm, 3:30pm, 4pm, 4:30pm
2pm - Human Truck Pull
4pm - Little League Game at ballfield.
7:30pm - Brosseau Duck Dive
8-10pm - Free Street Dance
Dusk - fireworks
Location: Hardwick, VT