SNOW STOPS FEST COLD ALMOND EVENT PUSHED BACK.Byline: Daily News QUARTZ HILL - A snow forecast has caused the postponement of Quartz Hill's annual Almond Blossom Festival The Almond Blossom Festival is an annual arts, social, and entertainment festival held every year on the first weekend of August at Willunga, South Australia, Australia. and parade. Vendors who had signed up to participate this weekend backed out because they expected that bad weather would keep away visitors and organizers were also concerned about health and safety risks from running a carnival carnival, communal celebration, especially the religious celebration in Catholic countries that takes place just before Lent. Since early times carnivals have been accompanied by parades, masquerades, pageants, and other forms of revelry that had their origins in and parade in rain and possibly snow. ``We can't have that for our operations,'' said Quartz Hill Chamber of Commerce volunteer Harry Brodock. Festival chairman Lee Barron said organizers will confer with Verb 1. confer with - get or ask advice from; "Consult your local broker"; "They had to consult before arriving at a decision" consult ask, enquire, inquire - inquire about; "I asked about their special today"; "He had to ask directions several times" vendors next week and hope to set a new festival date for late March or early April. With a parade and a pet parade along 50th Street West, and carnival rides, food and artisans booths in George Lane George Lane (born 1940 ) is a British "mental calculator" and author. He is a three-times world champion and one of only three Grandmasters of Mental Calculation, as recognised by the Mind Sports Organisation. Park, the festival normally attracts more than 20,000 visitors. This is not the first time that bad weather has interfered with the festival. Snow or rain has canceled it at least three times between the 1950s and 1990s, records show. The festival began in 1949 as way to celebrate the first signs of spring. It was named for the thousands of almond almond, name for a small tree (Prunus amygdalus) of the family Rosaceae (rose family) and for the nutlike, edible seed of its drupe fruit. The "nuts" of sweet-almond varieties are eaten raw or roasted and are pressed to obtain almond oil. trees that once covered the Quartz Hill area, but are now almost gone because of a tree disease in the 1960s and later drought and development. |
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