{"id":183939,"date":"2024-09-22T21:26:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T02:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=183939"},"modified":"2024-09-23T21:14:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T02:14:15","slug":"people-flock-downtown-for-annual-harvest-moon-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/09\/22\/people-flock-downtown-for-annual-harvest-moon-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"People flock to the Harvest Moon Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final day of summer, 2024 included fun, food, live entertainment and much more in downtown Van Wert on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Main Street Van Wert\u2019s Harvest Moon Festival brought the summer to an end and it packed a lot in a three block area of Main St. While temperatures were a bit on the warm side, especially for late summer, the turnout was very good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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People flocked to the Harvest Moon Festival in downtown Van Wert. Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re happy that everybody came out,\u201d Main Street Van Wert Executive Director Mitch Price said. \u201cWe love this fall event \u2013 it may be a little hotter than we\u2019d like but but we can\u2019t help that. We\u2019re just really happy with the turnout and we\u2019re happy with the city, our volunteers and Cooper Farms, our No. 1 sponsor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all, the six-hour downtown event featured nine food trucks, 25 market vendors, a kids zone, adult games, a Freedom Cruise car show, a class reunion or two, and four hours of live music by local band Major Snafu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price noted a lot of work went into the festival and planning began months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think people think it\u2019s just a turnkey event but there\u2019s a lot of planning that goes into it,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have a great committee and a great board that I work with and we\u2019re blessed to have great city leadership that when I call and ask to do something they pretty much say yes. They allow us to shut Main St. down and we really appreciate that, we don\u2019t take advantage of that relationship, we need that relationship in order for us to get to where we want to be in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to take it to the next level and we\u2019re trying to build up Main St. and we appreciate the businesses and the police department too for helping us out,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the Harvest Moon Festival brought the curtain down on summer, Price noted the next big event will occur next month \u2013 October 26 to be precise, with Main Street Van Wert\u2019s annual trick-or-treat event, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. that day at various downtown businesses. After that, the annual Christmas display will be at Fountain Park in late November and throughout December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Local band Major Snafu rocked Main St. on Saturday night. Scott Truxell photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor The final day of summer, 2024 included fun, food, live entertainment and much more in downtown Van Wert on Saturday. Main Street Van Wert\u2019s Harvest Moon Festival brought the summer to an end and it packed a lot in a three block area of Main St. While temperatures were a bit on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 07:50:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183939"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184035,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183939\/revisions\/184035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}