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FOLLANSBEE — Citing financial constraints, organizers of Follansbee Community Days have announced the festival may not return next year or at least be limited to one day, but they also said they will celebrate its 30th year in style.
Tom Ludewig, who chairs the Follansbee Community Days committee, said attendees can expect an exceptional fireworks display as well as the variety of entertainment and food he has offered in the past.
“It’s going to be the biggest fireworks show we’ve ever done,” he said, adding that about a dozen food vendors and 17 craft and other vendors have been booked.
The fireworks will close the three-day festival, which begins Friday evening and runs through Sunday evening.
Most of the festivities will take place in the parking lot of the Follansbee Community House, behind the Bluewave Center, on State Route 2 and next to Follansbee Park, where attendees will also be able to cool off under its trees or at its swimming pool.
Children can play on the park's playground or on the inflatable attractions set up for the festival on the nearby softball field.
Organized by committee member Don Layburn, the musical lineup will include: The Fantasys at 6:30 p.m. and Lights Out! (a Four Seasons tribute band) at 8:30 p.m. Friday; and Pittsburgh dance band New Pure Gold at 6:30 p.m. and Chris Ruggiero, a regular Las Vegas performer who will perform popular songs from the 1950s, '60s and '70s at 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
On Sunday, the musicians will take the stage earlier, starting with local rhythm and blues group Twice as Nice at 5 p.m., Pittsburgh's Jimmy Ross and the Jaggerz at 6:30 p.m. and the Motor City All-Stars, a Motown tribute band, at 8:30 p.m.
There will also be a parade at 1 p.m. Saturday on Main Street (State Route 2), with Victor Ceglie Jr., a Follansbee native who went on to a 40-year career as a firefighter in the Washington, D.C., area, serving as marshal.
After retiring as a battalion chief for a district that included the White House and all federal offices, Ceglie served as director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Emergency Services Branch, a position that involved working with state, tribal, local and other federal officials to plan responses to various potential disasters and organize COVID vaccination sites and procedures for Albany, Brooklyn and Buffalo, N.Y.
At the festival's recent kickoff dinner, Ceglie said the influence of his parents and all the mothers and fathers in the community during his childhood in Follansbee prepared him for the challenges he faced later in life.
The procession of marching bands, emergency vehicles, floats and other units is expected to be kicked off with a gunshot fired by the West Virginia University Mountaineers mascot.
On Sunday, Lyle's Auto, located across from the park entrance, will host the Howdy Verner Memorial Car Show from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Car owners are asked to arrive by 10 a.m. for the event, which will include a 50-50 raffle, door prizes and food and drinks.
The show, a long-time part of Follansbee Community Days, is named after Howard “Howdy” Verner, the founder of Howdy's Dairy Owl, who organized it. Proceeds from the show will benefit children with diabetes.
The festival will end with a fireworks display at 10 p.m. on Sunday.
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