Serving Boone, Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, and other towns of the North Carolina High Country
Founded 05-05-05
May 15, 2008 issue
Second Annual Mountain Valleyfest This Saturday at Green Valley Park
Story by David Brewer
The second annual Mountain Valleyfest will take place this Saturday, May 17, at Green Valley Park. The all day benefit event will feature live music, food, fun and games. Proceeds from the event will be divided between Green Valley Park and Mountain Pathways School. Admission to the Second Annual Mountain Valleyfest is free and parking is $2 per vehicle and includes a ticket for a door prize. The event will run from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Lives bands for Mountain Valleyfest include The Sunday Singers, The Forget-Me-Nots, Elkville String Band, Surefire Bluegrass Band, the Wolfe Brothers String Band, Diana and Sarvis Ridge, the Worthless Son-in-Laws and Soul Benefactor.
A number of vendors will be on hand selling handmade crafts, along with food by Earth Fare, Makoto Japanese Steakhouse and Cici’s Pizza.
Mountain Valleyfest will also include a raffle with chances to win prizes such as golf for four at Elk River Resort, a kid’s bicycle, four ASU home football game tickets, a year’s pass to Grandfather Mountain, and many others.
“We just collaborate and it’s unique because we are both nonprofits helping each other out,” said Nancy Moretz, treasurer for Green Valley Park.
Green Valley citizens initially established Green Valley Community Park in 2000 to provide recreational and outdoor educational opportunities for the children of the community. The park is located on 12 acres on Big Hill Road off Highway 194, nestled alongside the New River. The facility is home to walking and hiking trails, a canoe ramp, a picnic shelter and an athletic field with future plans for a playground.
In recent years, generous private donations have helped ease the park’s mortgage and projects by local Eagle Scout candidates have helped further beautify the space. In 2006 the park added a picnic shelter and installed a new playground in 2007.
“Having the playground has really increased the usage of the park,” said Moretz.
Mountain Pathways School, a Montessori school, was founded in 1987 by a group of parents and educators who wanted to provide an interdisciplinary education that met the needs of the whole child. They focused on developing an educational atmosphere that would foster self-reliant, self-disciplined children who would grow to adulthood with a lifelong love of learning and the ability and desire to positively contribute to society.
For more info on Green Valley Community Park, click to www.greenvalleypark.org. For more info on Mountain Pathways School, click to www.mountainpathways.org.
For more info on the festival, call 828-262-5787, or email nancynjerry@charter.net or jscarroll@bellsouth.net.
Want To Go?
Date: Saturday, May 17
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Location: Green Valley Park
Cost: FREE!