City of Bluefield announces location, date for Lemonade Festival
Jul. 18—The city of Bluefield has announced the date and location for this year's Lemonade Day's Festival.
It will be held on Saturday, August 31, at city park, according to the city's Facebook page. The festival had to be moved to city park due to the ongoing demolition project and detour in the 400 block area of Bluefield, according to Jeff Disibbio, president and chief executive officer of the Chamber of Commerce of the Two Virginias.
The Lemonade Festival is held on the same weekend as the big Beaver-Graham contest so that alumni of Bluefield High School and Graham High School can attend the celebration the day after the game, along with other visitors who are in town for the reunion weekend.
Free lemonade will be distributed at the festival by the chamber on that day regardless of whether the mercury at the Mercer County Airport reaches 90 degrees or not.
The city is currently looking for vendors for the event.
Because the thermometer at the Mercer County Airport hit 90 degrees on Monday of this week, free lemonade also will be distributed this Friday, July 19, between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. at city park in Bluefield in the grassy area near the tennis courts, at the Tailyard Dog Park in Bluefield and at Jack Asbury Square in the town of Bluefield, Va.
This was the first time since September of 2019 that a 90 degree reading was recorded at the airport.
The nationally-recognized Nature's Air-Conditioned City promotion dates back to 1939. That was when the late Edward H. "Eddie" Steele, the chamber president at the time, came up with the promotion as a way to bring increased attention to the city of Bluefield.
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