MOORPARK GALA SET FOR WEEKEND; PAGEANT TO HONOR CITY'S SMALL-TOWN, AGRICULTURAL ROOTS.Byline: Sylvia L. Oliande Daily News Staff Writer The long and colorful history of one of Ventura County's oldest communities will be the focus of this year's Moorpark Country Days celebration. The daylong festival will begin at 7:30 a.m. Saturday with a pancake pancake, thin, flat cake, made of batter and baked on a griddle or fried in a pan. Pancakes, probably the oldest form of bread, are known in different forms throughout the world. breakfast hosted by the American Legion American Legion, national association of male and female war veterans, founded (1919) in Paris. Membership is open to veterans of World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. . It will continue with a parade at 9:30 a.m. The parade will go east on Poindexter Avenue, north on Moorpark Avenue and finally east along High Street. The day will culminate culminate, in astronomy, the maximum height in the sky reached by a celestial body on a given day. At the culminate the body is crossing the observer's celestial meridian and is said to be in upper transit. with a street fair, featuring 45 vendors and 25 arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. booths on and around High Street. ``A lot of people come for the ambience,'' said Carolyn Schrimpt, executive director of the Moorpark Chamber of Commerce. ``We have it on High Street, which is closed so you can wander all over. With the big pepper trees there, the old buildings, it's really hometownish.'' The festival also will have games, rides, entertainment and a talent show for teen-agers. Schrimpt said some of the parade's nearly 70 entrants have taken the festival's theme - Moorpark Memories - to heart and plan to depict scenes from the city's past. Among them is a float commemorating Moorpark's distinction as the first town in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. to be powered, albeit briefly, by nuclear energy in the 1950s. During its agricultural heyday 40 years ago, Moorpark had an annual harvest festival harvest festival Noun 1. a Christian church service held every year to thank God for the harvest 2. any of various ceremonies celebrating the harvest in other religions to celebrate the work done to gather and sell the fruit from local apricot trees. But the tradition died as the orchards disappeared. The chamber revived the festival in 1979, as a way to give residents a chance to have fun as they dealt with difficult land-use and transportation issues before the city was incorporated. ``The community worked hard and was striving in so many directions to grow and develop and improve,'' said John Newton For other persons of the same name, see John Newton (disambiguation). John Newton (July 24, 1725 – December 21, 1807) was an Anglican clergyman who had, at one time, been a slaveship master. He is best known as the author of the hymn Amazing Grace. , who as then-chamber president helped begin the Moorpark Country Days tradition. ``Most all of those people working on them were volunteers. We figured we work hard, so let's play hard.'' |
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