Basket Festival
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The festival is on center street and in the surrounding buildings and parks. The gathering is family oriented with lots of activities for children and adults with no admission fee. Unique to the festival is the two companies in the village that produce one of a kind, hardwood, signed baskets, featuring special editions for each festival. They are the Village Baskets on Main Street and The Berlin Fruit Box Company on Mechanic Street. This year the festival is highlighting the 150th anniversary of the launch by Samuel Patterson of the Berlin Fruit Box Co. There will by a second parade on Sunday, the "First Annual Big Old Parade" and a "Basket Avenue" featuring basket manufacturers, basket guilds, and basket making demonstrations. Other events featured at the Berlin Heights Basket Festival include a flower show crafts, a parade featuring the Queen and Court and the Edison Chargers Band, a quilt display, live on stage music, a kiddie tractor pull, a baby contest, a marble tournament, and lots of other family oriented activities. The whole village is filled with the tantalizing aromas from the many food vendors and local organizations' different fetes including a steak fry, pancake breakfast, a chicken barbecue and hog roast. All this set in a pretty, friendly, small community atmosphere. For more information, visit www.basketfestival.com
| Saturday, August 2nd | |
| 10:00 am | Introduction of 2008 Queen & Citizen |
| 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | Garden Club Flower |
| 10:00 am - Noon | WGGN Live Remote |
| 10:15 am | Milan Lions Club Kiddie Tractor Pull |
| 11:00 am | Baby Contest - 10:00 am to 10:45 am |
| 11:00 am | Hog Roast - Point of Light Missions, Congregational Church |
| 1:30 pm | Berlin Heights Kiwanis Basket Festival Parade |
| 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | K96/95.3 WLKR Live Remote |
| 2:30 pm | Introduction of visiting royalty - Avenue Stage |
| 3:00 pm | Edison High School Band Concert - School Lawn |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | The Splitt Band - Music on Main Stage |
| 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Berlin Heights Kiwanis Steak Fry |
| 5:30 pm | Basketball Free Throw Contest - Street |
| 6:30 pm | Wing Eating Contest - Avenue Stage; sponsor, Oliver's Pub & Grill |
| 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Hatrick - Music on Main Stage |

