Here are the winners of the 2012 Harlan Days Demoltion Derby:
Mini Car Figure 8
1st – Adam Stephenson
2nd – Jared Lare
3rd – Alex Zurbrugg
Full Size Figure 8
1st – Larry Oberly
2nd – Trevor Hunt
3rd – Alex Scheuman
Stock Class
1st – Nathan Meyer
2nd – Scott Piper
3rd – Tim Stein
Mini Car Derby
1st – Alex Zurbrugg
2nd – Jared Lare
3rd – Matt Taylor
Full Size Derby
1st – Brady Allen
2nd – Brett Oetting
3rd – Phil Kaiser
Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you to all of the participants. We’ll see you all again next year!
Thanks to all who came out and enjoyed the 65th Harlan Days. Here are the winners of the 2012 Harlan Days Raffle.
1st – 50/50 – Tom Koch
2nd – Big Green Egg – Tom Beerbower
3rd – 40″ HDTV – Anita Ashley
4th – Gas Trimmer – Larry Smith
5th – Apple iPad 2 – Vicki Schaber
6th – Carevelle Watch – Mary Steury
7th – $100 Gift Certificate – Josh Carter
8th – Kindle Touch – Crystal *Duwan (*spelling?)
Congratulations, and thanks to all who participated. (All have or will be contacted with details on how to pick up their prize.)
Our hometown festival was recently nominated for the Fort Wayne Newspapers Readers’ Choice awards.
You can vote, and encourage friends and family to vote, in Readers’ Choice by visiting the Readers’ Choice Voting page then select “Show Places to go/ Things to do”, then “Local Festival”, and finally use the drop down box to highlight “Harlan Days Hometown Festival, Harlan” and click “Save Vote.”
Alternately you could purchase a NEWS SENTINEL today and a JOURNAL GAZETTE tomorrow! Thank you for voting. ~ Sara Pierce
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Kicking off the 2012 Harlan Days Festival with fast and exciting Motocross action on a custom built track in the event arena!
Join us for another year of tearing up the track at the Harlan Days Motocross race on Thursday, August 2nd. Sign up starts at 4pm and racing starts at 7pm. For more information, you can download and print this flyer which has all the different class information and also contact persons if the information you need is not there. See you at the races!
Spectator Fees: $8.00 – General Admission $10.00 – Pit Pass
For more information or to be an event sponsor, call or email: Jack James: 260.657.5827 or Neil Koch: nkoch1976@gmail.com
A long time tradition and popular activity at Harlan Days is the basketball tournament. Get your team signup now.
Registration fee of $200.00 per team.
First 16 teams accepted.
Skill level 1—Open
Tournament runs July 31- August 4
For more information please contact:
Dan Bontrager @ (260) 615-5408
or
John Pfeiffer @ (260) 385-3604
via Sara Pierce
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Here is the poster for the 2012 Harlan Days Demolition Derby. It takes place on Friday, August 3rd at 7:00 pm. Rain or shine, come enjoy some great car-crunching action!
One of the newer, but extremely popular, events is the 4th Annual Cornhole Tournament. There have been 3 different Champs in the past 3 years. Maybe you are next? Register by July 30th by calling Andy at 260-438-9433 or Nick 260-557-5559.
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Bring your hot wheels out to our 18th Annual Harlan Days Cruise-In Car Show.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Registration: 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Judging: 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Awards: 8:00 pm
There will be awards for the Top 25 Best in Show, a Special Award, Chairman’s Choice Award and free dash plaques will be given to the first 75 cars that register. I Class and II Class. Trailer cars will not be judged, only shown. Motorcycles are not included in the Cruise-In.
For more information please call Floyd Fogle at (260) 657-5683 or (260) 704-1414.
via Sara Pierce
Bring your crafts out to display and sell at the popular Harlan Days craft tent. Each 10’x10’ booth is only $90.00!
If you are interested in registering or need more information
please send an email to: harlandayscrafttent@gmail.com
or call Renee Ely @ 657-5592/evenings.
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