LASALLE – The Strawberry Festival had a sweet weekend this year. The event made $39,000 profit, with $5,000 being donated to the Turtle Club, a youth baseball organization, said festival chairwoman Coun. Crystal Meloche.
About 28,000 people came to the four-day festival last weekend, enjoying music, rides, entertainment and food.
Organizers sold about 31,000 of the 34,000 strawberries they bought from Cottam farmer Brad Raymont. The rest was given to some of the 100 volunteers who helped put on the 26th-annual festival.
The festival seems to have recovered from its financial difficulties. The town-sponsored event was in dire straits a few years ago after bad weather and low attendance in 2011 forced organizers to borrow $20,000 from the town to stay afloat.
Meloche said the difference this year was the weather co-operated and the festival was moved to the second weekend in June so it didn’t compete with Art in the Park and Beaverfest in Windsor.
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