Windmill Days
Windmill Days will be taking place in Grove City this weekend. Several events are scheduled for Friday, but most of the activities will be taking place on Saturday culminating with a parade and street dance Saturday evening.
Grove City Mayor Gabra Lokken says the EDA Committee has been planning events which include city-wide garage sales Friday and Saturday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., a free community lunch at Grove Bank Friday from 11-to-1, an ice cream social at First Baptist Church from 5-to-7 and Lions Club Bingo at Trinity Lutheran Church at 7 o’clock Friday evening. She says Saturday’s events in Grove City will include a swap meet at the old bus garage at the corner of North 4th Street and North Avenue from 8-to-3, medallion hunt beginning at 9 a.m. (with clues posted at city hall), Donut to Beer Fun K at 10 a.m. starting at MN Beer, vendor market in the park from 9-to-4, pony rides from 10-to-2, car show at MN Beer from 11-to-2, and bouncy houses from 11-to-7 in Windmill Park.
Lokken says the museum will be open on South 3rd Street from 1-to-4 p.m. Saturday with refreshments served, and the Grove City Area CARE program will have its raffle drawing at 5 p.m. She says there will be musical acts in Windmill Park on Saturday, beginning with Joe Diethelm performing some European-type music from 11-to-1.
Lokken says Mark Stone will be performing from 2-to-4 p.m. and a band called Big Machine – with 1980s rock ‘n’ roll music – will be playing during the Street Dance from 8-to-11 Saturday night and the Grove City Lions Club will operate a beer garden from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. She says the parade in Grove City will begin at 6:30 p.m. Saturday evening, with line-up in the Grove Heights area at 5:30 and you can just show up – there is no entry fee. The parade route has been expanded this year – traveling north on 2nd Street from Lindstrom Avenue as usual, but then heading west on South Avenue, and then south on 4th Street to Axel Avenue.
There will also be food vendors in Windmill Park on Saturday in Grove City, and fire truck rides, hot dogs and a bike-give-away at the Fire Hall after the parade and much more. Look for a schedule on the Grove City Windmill Days Facebook page.
