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Oswegoland Park District needs more volunteer help for PrairieFest · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswegoln Park District needs more volunteer help for prairie Fest.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Eric Shelkoff. This article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. The Oswegoln
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  Speaker 1: Park District relies heavily on volunteers to help put on
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  Speaker 1: the district's four day festival, prairie Fest. Prairie Fest is
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  Speaker 1: Kendall County's largest festival, attracting upwards of seventy five thousand
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  Speaker 1: people every year. Oswegoln Park District has been organizing prairie
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  Speaker 1: Fest since nineteen eighty nine. The park District could use
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  Speaker 1: more volunteers for this year's festival, which will take place
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  Speaker 1: from June eighteen, twenty one at prairie Fest Park, ninety
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  Speaker 1: one Plank Drive in Oswego. It truly takes a village
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  Speaker 1: of volunteers to help us put on prairie Fest, said
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  Speaker 1: Isabella Mahoney, the district's recreation supervisor for special events. We
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  Speaker 1: generally have anywhere between one hundred and fifty two hundred
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  Speaker 1: volunteers that help us make the weekend possible. Mahoney said
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  Speaker 1: the district is in need of more volunteers to help
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  Speaker 1: with parking during the afternoon on opening day, along with
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  Speaker 1: volunteers to help with parking late at night all four days.
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  Speaker 1: Parking volunteers must be older than fourteen, she said. To
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  Speaker 1: volunteer go to the festival will kick off on June
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  Speaker 1: eighteenth with the band Radio Gaga, which performs all the
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  Speaker 1: hits of Queen and Lady Gaga. The night will also
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  Speaker 1: feature the Prairie Winds Community Band, which is composed of
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  Speaker 1: local high school and adult community band musicians. Country singer
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  Speaker 1: Chris Cagele will perform June nineteenth as part of his
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  Speaker 1: tour celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of the release of
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  Speaker 1: his debut album Play It Loud, which featured the breakout
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  Speaker 1: hit I Breathe In, I Breathe Out. Opening for Cagel
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  Speaker 1: will be the band Whiskey Road. American Authors will close
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  Speaker 1: out the night on June twentieth. The night will also
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  Speaker 1: feature popular Beatles tribute band American English and cover band
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  Speaker 1: Party Fall, American author's breakout hit Best Day of My
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  Speaker 1: Life has more than a billion streams on Spotify. Hartman
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  Speaker 1: noted for the second year in a row. Latin band
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  Speaker 1: Kenjunto Atartiser will take the stage on June twenty first,
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  Speaker 1: the last day of Prairiefest. Prairiefest also will feature a carnival,
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  Speaker 1: the Division BMX stunt Team, the Prairiefest Parade, and other activities.
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  Speaker 1: The festival draws people from all over the region. More
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  Speaker 1: information about Prairiefest is at prairiefest dot com.