{"id":8895,"date":"2011-06-04T03:59:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T08:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=8895"},"modified":"2011-06-06T02:49:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T07:49:11","slug":"one-wonderful-weekend-gets-fantastic-kick-off-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/06\/04\/one-wonderful-weekend-gets-fantastic-kick-off-day\/","title":{"rendered":"One Wonderful Weekend fest kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8896\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Wonderful-Weekend-collage-6-4-11-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Wonderful-Weekend-collage-6-4-11-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Wonderful-Weekend-collage-6-4-11.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/>The annual One Wonderful Weekend event \u2013 an amalgam of the Peony Festival and ArtRageous on Main celebrations \u2013 got off to a great start on Friday, with absolutely fantastic weather and a list of events that included the Van-Dells concert in Fountain Park, displays of artwork, kids\u2019 rides, Tuff Trucks events and the Peony Festival Cruise-In on Main Street.<\/p>\n<p>Today things heat up even more, although there is a chance of rain forecast that festival organizers hope holds off until evening so that the festival\u2019s premier event \u2013 the Peony Festival Grand Parade \u2013 doesn\u2019t get soggy.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the parade, there will be more Tuff Truck events at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds; a quilt show; two craft shows; ArtRageous on Main events in Fountain Park that include displays of artwork, the Van Wert Optimist Club\u2019s Children\u2019s Art Display, a Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest, and a Downtown Architectural Hunt; a Cushman Motor Scooter Show on Central Avenue, kids rides in the city parking lot on Central Avenue, between Washington and Market streets; food vendors on Jefferson Street; a Show and Shine Car Show at the fairgrounds; the 50th annual Jubilee Flower Show at the fairgrounds; a concert by local group Section Ate, a demonstration by dancers from Kim Hohman\u2019s DanceWorks; National Mud Drags; a 5K run and 2K Family Fun Run\/Walk at Smiley Park; and a Fishing Derby at Camp Clay on Liberty Union Road.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Grand Parade will feature more than 100 units and run nearly the length of Washington Street, from the fairgrounds to Gleason Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Jubilee Flower Show continues, along with the Quilt Show, and Landscape &amp; Garden Tours begun Saturday will also be conducted on Sunday, from 1-3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>At the fairgrounds on Sunday, a Michindoh-sanctioned Truck &amp; Tractor Pull will be held, while the 55th annual June Art Show will begin Sunday at Wassenberg Art Center on South Washington Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor The annual One Wonderful Weekend event \u2013 an amalgam of the Peony Festival and ArtRageous on Main celebrations \u2013 got off to a great start on Friday, with absolutely fantastic weather and a list of events that included the Van-Dells concert in Fountain Park, displays of artwork, kids\u2019 rides, Tuff Trucks events [&hellip;]<\/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-8895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 09:21:09","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\/8895","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=8895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}