The second big festival of September is this weekend, but that’s not the only thing going on in this area this weekend.
The 109th Belmont School and Community Fair is going on at Belmont High School and other Belmont locations through Sunday.
The stunt program, including the crowning of the fair king and queen and the raffle drawing, will be at BHS Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
The Fair Game against Kickapoo/La Farge will be held Friday at 7 p.m., followed by a teen dance and bonfire, weather permitting, after the game until 11 p.m.
On Saturday, the parade will be held downtown at 10 a.m. Exhibits will open in the Belmont Grade School gym Saturday at 11 a.m. The annual car show will be held outside at noon. Animal judging also will take place at noon, followed by the livestock auction at 2:15 p.m. The street dance on Commerce Street will be at 8 p.m.
For the second year the fair will include a wedding dress display featuring 19 wedding dresses from the 1930s to today in the grade school gym Saturday.
On Sunday, the ecumenical service will be held at 10 a.m. A blacktop tractor pull and the horse show will be held at noon. A remote control derby will be at 1 p.m. The kiddie pedal tractor pull will be at 1:30 p.m. The Name the Animal drawing will be held at The Sports Page at 2 p.m.
The UW–Platteville Piano Festival will be held in UWP’s Center for the Arts Brodbeck Concert Hall, with a faculty and guest recital Friday at 6 p.m. and a Pioneer Piano Recital Saturday at 5 p.m.
The ninth annual Ben’s Hope 5K Run and 2-Mile Walk will be held at Mound View Park in Platteville Saturday, with registration at 9 a.m. and the ceremony at 10 a.m.
Ben’s Hope was created by Terry and Patti Cullen after the death by suicide of their son Benjamin, 27, in 2014, “to spare other families from bearing the hardships and pain that our family has endured since Ben’s suicide.”
More information is available at www.bens-hope.org.
Warren Lodge No. 4 of Potosi will hold its annual car show at Holiday Gardens in Potosi Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
