Everyone get ready for a good time because the Tyrone Community Labor Day picnic is scheduled for September 6 at Tyrone\u2019s Reservoir Park.
\nThe 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.
\nRose Black of the Tyrone Area Chamber of Commerce described it as \u201ca day planned to keep families safe and at home.\u201d
\nThis year\u2019s picnic is sponsored by Tyrone Borough, area business and industries and the Tyrone Chamber of Commerce.
\nThe 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.
\nOther delicious food to be sold at the event includes: Troop 103 selling ham barbecue, sloppy joes and hot dogs; Shriner\u2019s Club selling hot sausage sandwiches; Women\u2019s Club selling rib dinners and pies; Troop 20 selling apple dumplings and Tyrone YMCA gymnastics with a bake sale and fruit cups.
\nGames 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.
\nPool 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.
\nEating contests are scheduled to begin at 3 p.m., and include both a watermelon and pie eating contest.
\nBesides children\u2019s 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.
\nEntertainment will be provided by the Schoch Hollow Band at either the amphitheater shell or table No. 1.
\nThis year\u2019s 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.
\n 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.
\nPrizes will be awarded for first, second and third place of each division.
\nThe rules for the competition follow.
\nEach 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.
\nAlso, 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.
\nThe 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.
\nThe entry form deadline for the Star Search competition is September 1.
\nEntry forms and information regarding the competition may be obtained by calling the Star Search headquarters at 684-ART2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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