What's Happening: Saturday Market finale
Friday, October 3, 2008 11:30 PM PDT
By The Daily News
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Longview’s Saturday Market at Commerce and Broadway will conclude its season with Octoberfest on Saturday.
The high — or possibly low — point of the event will be the sausage-eating relay contest about noon. Teams are encouraged to wear silly costumes.
In case the forecasted rain appears, the sausage-eating contest may be moved inside the Merk.
Other scheduled events include all-day pumpkin bowling, live music and dance groups, and a 1 p.m. Hawaiian hula dance.
New and exciting this year is the “corn waddle,” during which one extremely agile person walks with an ear of corn between his or her knees and passes it on to another person to walk with.
The waddle should start between 10:30 and 10:45 a.m. and will be held again sometime in the afternoon.
Wahkiakum Country Days
Wahkiakum County’s Columbia River Country Days continues Saturday and Sunday.
Tours of working farms go from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
A Lamp Lit Dinner on the Grays River Covered Bridge starts at 4:30 p.m. today and costs $25 per person.
For more information, visit www.wahkiakumchamber.com or welcometowahkiakum.com or call (360) 849-4000.
Punk it up at Porky’s
Porky’s will go punk during a show starting at 9 p.m. Saturday.
The punk/alternative show features The Hickmans, The Legend of Dutch Savage, Dartgun and Cooty Platoon.
There’s a $3 cover charge. The establishment at 561 Industrial Way is open only to those 21 and over.
Quilt show
“Quilts for All Seasons,” the Ladies of the Lake Quilt Guild show featuring Kathy Bowers, continues from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the New Life Fellowship Church, 2441 42nd Ave., Longview.
Admission costs $3.
Hay rides!
The Pomeroy Living History Farm will offer hay rides to the Pumpkin Patch and down Pumpkin Lane at its 15th annual Pumpkin Festival Saturday and Sunday.
The festival also features vendors selling handcrafted goods and goodies, making scarecrows, a children’s carnival tent, animals to pet, a hay bale maze, food from the Farm Cafe and old-time fiddle music.
Gates open at 10 a.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday and close at 5 p.m. each day.
Admission is free.
The farm is located at 20902 N.E. Lucia Falls Road in near Yacolt. For details or directions, call (360) 686-3537.
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