1st annual KidFest a Huge Success!
“I had a great time at your event. It seemed well advertised and attended so I thank you for doing your part.” Teresa Martin – State Farm Insurance
Center throughout the day for the First Annual Out & About Magazine KidFest. benefiting Rebekah Children’s Services, KidFest provided something for everyone. Parents enjoyed resources from over seventy vendors selling mer- chandise and promoting their services for summer camp programs, education, kid’s health issues, art classes, clubs and organizations and much more. Both the resource and retail vendors were ecstat- ic about the attendance and said the event over exceeded their expectations. As a special attraction of the event,
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Operation Kidsafe was also on hand to provide fingerprinting and photo safety services. They fingerprinted over four hundred-fifty kids throughout the day and deemed the event a huge success. While the parents learned more
about resources for their children, the kids enjoyed a full day of games, crafts, prizes, a petting zoo and a ride on motorized zoo animals. The Music Tree sponsored the Kids’ Stag, which boast- ed kids entertainment and demonstra- tions. Even with seating for a hundred people, the Kids’ Stage was usually standing room only. Let’s Party Salinas sponsored all the carnival games and Rebekah Children’s Services managed the Kids’ Activity Area with many crafts ranging from spin art to make- your-own shamrock ornaments. There were so many great raffle
prizes that we handed out at least twen- ty prizes each hour with the grand prize a Specialized Hotrock 21-speed kid’s bike. Raffle items included two-way
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pproximately 5000 – 6000 atten- dees filled the former Ross Store at the Cochrane Plaza Shopping
radios, free summer camp programs, numer- ous attraction tickets, memberships, gift bas- kets, a variety of differ- ent lessons from music to karate, gymnastics and tae kwan do and much more! Kids also enjoyed the
many food items such as kettle corn, hotdogs and nachos, Dipping Dots and the most popular, Tiki Sweetz who sold out of their dif- ferent varieties of cotton candy. Thank you to our wonderful spon-
sors Stratford Schools, Pump It Up, Music Tree, Let’s Party Salinas, Sequoia Management Company, Recology South Valley and Specialized
Bikes. Also a big thank you to the Boy Scouts for helping with garbage, Sobrato Key Club and Civics for their volunteering and Live Oak High School FBLA and Kiki Nakauchi for their full day of assistance with anything we need- ed help with. For those of you who missed this
great event, we hope to see you at the Second Annual KidFest in 2013.
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