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Kalona Days coming this weekend
KALONA — The annual town festival in Kalona is back this weekend, with a few new features including a pickleball tournament, a cookie-baking contest, and use of a newly installed playground at the city park.
Kalona Chamber of Commerce Director Tonia Poole said the festivities would add to the already popular yearly event June 16 and 17, and would be kept “as free as possible” across the board.
“One of the things I love most about Kalona Days is the team effort of the community,” she said. “It gets the different clubs involved, it gets so many different community members involved to make it happen, and the activities are for all ages … it’s just a good, wholesome, good time no matter your age or where you live.”
There are still entry fees for the Fun Run this year. Poole said proceeds would go to support research on Invasive lobular carcinoma, or ILC, a rare type of breast cancer.
“That’s almost doubled our fun run registrations already, people are eager to jump on board for that,” she said. “A community member was diagnosed with this, and she’s been trying to help bring awareness … we were supporting her in that mission.”
See below for a full schedule of Kalona Days events:
FRIDAY, June 16:
- 5:30-8:30 p.m. wagon rides downtown and at the KCTC lot
- 6-9 p.m. Kalona Farmers Market night market, music by Aces & Eights, and Face Painting + Henna
SATURDAY, June 17:
- 7-7:40 a.m. registration for runs/walks at Chamber building
- 7:40 a.m. 1-mile run/walk begins at Chamber
- 8 a.m. 5k run/walk begins at Chamber
- 9 a.m. to noon pie and cooking baking contest and auction at Chamber
- 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. sidewalk sales
- 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. free pickleball tournament at YMCA
- 10-11:30 a.m. kids’ pedal pull downtown
- 12:30-3:30 p.m. kids’ water activities + bounc house downtown, food vendors, kids activities and pony rides at KCTC lot
- 1 p.m. baking contest awards, Optimist bike giveaway and photo contest, and Mid-Prairie Alumni awards, all at KCTC Lot.
- 4 p.m. parade starts
- 5:30-8 p.m. Old Man Band and food trucks at Kalona City Park
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