Everyone get ready for a good time because the Tyrone Community Labor Day picnic is scheduled for September 6 at Tyrone’s Reservoir Park.
The event is scheduled to get underway at 9:30 a.m. and will feature many familiar events as well as a new event that has been added for this year. There will be entertainment, games, drawings, food and even free parking.
Rose Black of the Tyrone Area Chamber of Commerce described it as “a day planned to keep families safe and at home.”
This year’s picnic is sponsored by Tyrone Borough, area business and industries and the Tyrone Chamber of Commerce.
The Tyrone Rotary Club will sponsor a chicken barbecue with advance tickets on sale at the Tyrone Area Chamber of Commerce office or through any Rotary member.
Other delicious food to be sold at the event includes: Troop 103 selling ham barbecue, sloppy joes and hot dogs; Shriner’s Club selling hot sausage sandwiches; Women’s Club selling rib dinners and pies; Troop 20 selling apple dumplings and Tyrone YMCA gymnastics with a bake sale and fruit cups.
Games coordinated by the Tyrone Area YMCA are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. at the amphitheater. Games include: the sponge game, shoe scramble, balloon stomp, water balloon stomp, peanut scramble and sack races.
Pool games are scheduled to begin at 1 p.m., and an added incentive is that the pool is open free to the public for the day, with lifeguards on duty. Games include: swimming races, wet T-shirt relays, greased watermelon, cannonball contest and money dive.
Eating contests are scheduled to begin at 3 p.m., and include both a watermelon and pie eating contest.
Besides children’s games, the Tyrone Elks will have prize bingo that will be broadcast by WTRN. The prizes for the bingo have been donated by local businesses, organizations and individuals.
Entertainment will be provided by the Schoch Hollow Band at either the amphitheater shell or table No. 1.
This year’s new event at the picnic is the first ever Star Search competition sponsored by the Tyrone Community Players. The Star Search competition will be held at 2 p.m. under the park amphitheater.
The competition will have the following divisions: preschool through fourth grade, grade five through grade eight, grade nine through grade 12, and an adult division.
Prizes will be awarded for first, second and third place of each division.
The rules for the competition follow.
Each act will be limited to three minutes and thirty seconds, and each act must participate in one division based on the grade level completed in June of 2004. All members of an act must qualify for the division chosen. Only one stage appearance per person is permitted either as a single act or as a member of a group.
Also, all participants must live in the Tyrone Area School District. Prize money is awarded to the act regardless of how many people are in the act.
The presentation must be in good taste and suitable for audiences of all ages. Microphones will be provided. All other props or musical instruments must be provided by the act. An attitude of friendly competition and community celebration will be expected of all contestants. The decision of the judges is final.
The entry form deadline for the Star Search competition is September 1.
Entry forms and information regarding the competition may be obtained by calling the Star Search headquarters at 684-ART2.
