CHERRY FESTIVAL TIME IS HERE.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer Although the cherries came early this year, the Leona Valley Parade and Festival will march right on time this weekend with more than 45 entries. While the annual festival usually coincides with the opening of cherry orchards and its you-pick season, this year's early warm weather ripened the fruit earlier, leaving many ranchers sold out before the festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. . ``Most of the trees only have 50 percent of what they normally get,'' said Ray Blackburn of Blackie's Bings. ``Last year, it was half of that.'' While initially cherry ranchers reported this year's crop would produce a good harvest - this year's season remains better than last year's crop - it was not as plentiful as they had expected. ``We had quite a bit of rain and then it was unseasonably warm,'' said Blackburn, who has 200 cherry trees and opened his orchards Memorial Day weekend. ``The trees began to blossom and then it turned to a freeze.'' Leona Valley has more than a dozen cherry farms that have been producing fruit for more than a half-century. For the past 15 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time community has commemorated its harvest with the Leona Valley Cherry Festival. ``It's always a fun time of the year for us,'' said Blackburn, a firefighter who grows cherries for extra income. The festival will kick off with a parade at 11 a.m., which will start at Leona Avenue and 90th Street West, then travels north to Elizabeth Lake Road before ending at the Community Building. A mariachi band, community queens, equestrian groups and antique cars will be part of the parade, which will be led by the Sheriff's Posse as color guards, said Pat Hood, Leona Valley Festival chairman and a resident sheriff's deputy. Dorothy Lugo Rumbaugh, a longtime resident of Leona Valley, will serve as grand marshal Grand Marshal is a ceremonial, military, or political office of very high rank. The term has its origins with the word "Marshal" with the first usage of the term "Grand Marshal" as a ceremonial title for certain religious orders. and will ride in the parade with her three grandchildren. ``She's been here for 30 years,'' said Hood, who served as last year's grand marshal. ``She was active in 4-H when her children were younger and has been president of the women's club Women’s clubs first arose in the United States during the post-civil war period. As a result of increased leisure time due to modern household advances, middle class women had more time to engage in intellectual pursuits. for quite a few years.'' Jesse Schultz Jesse Schultz (born September 28, 1982 in Strasbourg, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian ice hockey player for the Atlanta Thrashers of the National Hockey League. He was traded from the Vancouver Canucks to the Atlanta Thrashers for Jimmy Sharrow. , a fifth-grader at Leona Valley Elementary School Valley Elementary School is an elementary school located in Beavercreek, Ohio and is part of the Beavercreek City School District. The principal is Lisa Walk. External links
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