10:00am – 4:00pm

Located in Damascus Civic Park, behind the Fire Station, this is THE BIG EVENT of the day.  Booths, games, petting zoo, bounce houses, climbing wall, great food, outstanding entertainment and much, much more!!!  Come share a great day with the entire family!

Kids Activity Booths with Prizes: These kid-friendly games are only one ticket each to play and kids will receive a prize or memento to take with them. Each booth is completely sponsored by a local business or organization–all proceeds benefit park improvements. 

• Dunk Tank
• Ping Pong Pitch
• Micro Racing Cars
• Squirt Gun Game
• Mini Golf
• Fun Hair Designs
• Downhill Race Cars
• Fish Toss
• Hoop Shoot
• Goldfish Races
• Coloring Contest
• Fishing Pond
• Frisbee Throw
• Gator Hunt

These favorite kids’ activities run all day and cost one ticket each. As with most every other activity in the Park, they are sponsored by local businesses or organizations. Support them!

• Optimum Solutions Petting Zoo
• John Mann Insurance and Terra Casa Bounce Houses
• Pony Carousel

Field Games: These games are geared for the whole family. The Egg and Water Balloon Tosses are divided into three age groups and a pair of winners receives a prize from the sponsor in each. Candy in the Hay is divided into age groups as well with each kids’ loot as their prize (parents are only involved in this activity when they sneak candy from their kids’ bag!).

• Pub 212 Egg Toss—11:15
• Damascus-Boring Observer Candy in the Hay—1:00
• Cornerstone Funeral Services Water Balloon Toss—3:00

Raffle: We have an ever-growing list of raffle prizes that will be grouped into at least 10 categories like “The Great Outdoors”, “Pamper Yourself”, “Family Fun” and “A Night Out” to name a few, and a few larger prizes that will be raffled on their own. It takes only one ticket to enter to win any prize except the trip and quilt, they take two tickets. Someone has to win and it might as well be you!

Stage Shows:The free stage shows are sponsored by the Damascus Civic Club this year. Whiskey Hill Jazz Club (12:00) is a group of talented youths who have wowed the crowds at the festival for five years. It’s impossible to sit still when Sunburst Classic Rock (1:15) plays favorites from a variety of decades.  We will showcase the truly amazing abilities of Portland Teen Idol (2:30) contestants and…

Singer/songwriter, Laura McGreevey  wraps up the day (3:15) with an incredible performance of great inspirational music!  So bring a chair, grab a bite and settle in to be truly entertained all afternoon.

Food Booths:Thanks to generous donations from Safeway, Dairy Queen, Tire Factory of Gresham and Hawaiian Beanz Coffee, the Snack Shack will offer hamburgers, hot dogs, nachos, soda, water and iced coffee and chai drinks.  Papa Murphy’s will be serving pizza and chocolate chip cookies from their mobile kitchen.   Sno-cones will be available to satisfy the worst thirst.  Prices are kept low so you can stay all day, feed the family and still have enough to play games-nothing on the menu is more than 4 tickets ($2.00)!