Beaumont Cherry Festival begins its four-days of fun and great entertainment
BEAUMONT - The price was right and the entertainment superb, and for that visitors streamed through the gates at Stewart Park for the 5 p.m. opening of the 91st annual Cherry Festival Thursday.
A line of festival-goers had already formed eager to climb aboard the carnival rides, play carnival games, or visit the 127 vendor booths offering a wide variety of food, and arts and crafts to peruse.
Headlining the evenings musical entertainment was Bonnie Pointer of The Pointer Sisters fame at 8 p.m. preceded by Rose Royce at 5. The main stage will be busy all four days with performances by such groups as Loverboy, The Basix, The Grass Roots, and America.
"We will have world renowned entertainment every night of the festival," said Jeannie Echols, a director with the Cherry Festival Board of Directors. "This is great free entertainment for just the price to get in."
The gate price?
Just $3 for adults. And for $15 children could ride all the rides in the carnival. Rachel Trusty bought her four kids the $15 wristbands and turned them lose on the rides.
"That's so cheap for all the rides," she said. "With four kids it would be hard to afford this without the ($15 special). This is good family fun."
At 5:30 the food booths were already busy dishing up Tornado Taters, funnel cakes, Island Grill Jamaican Cuisine, kettle corn, and of course a Cherry Festival favorite: Cherry pies served up by the Beaumont High School Cheer leading squad.
Every year, the girls (and moms) bake and sell cherry pies to raise money to support the school's cheer squads. "This is our biggest fundraiser," said Mary Runge, cheer booster club president. "It would be hard without the Cherry Festival. We have smaller fundraisers like car washes, but this is our biggest and it pays for most of anything and everything we need."
Savannah Georgulas is a few years away from becoming a cheerleader. For her the carnival offered a lot of fun. After she climbed down from the Hot Air Balloon ride she was all excited.
"It's an awesome ride and went up and down and made my tummy queasy," said Savannah with a big smile.
The Cherry Festival continues through Sunday and is located at Stewart Park at Ninth and Orange streets in Beaumont.
Admission is $5 for adults Friday through Sunday; $2 for children ages 6-11, and children 5 and under are free. On Friday the festival hours are 5 p.m. to midnight; Saturday, noon to midnight, and Sunday, noon to 9 p.m.
For more information call (951) 769-8524 and visit www.ci.beaumont.ca.us.
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It says on the Air Supply web site they will be appearing at your festival July 4th. Do you have any infor and how to obtain tickets?
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Marilyn Daubert
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