2008 Activities

                          

Time Function Location Cost
April 25,2008
11:30 AM
Betty Lynn Scholarship Luncheon First Baptist Church
S.White Oak
$12.00
April 25,2008 7:00 PM Hubble Initiative Award Dinner $15.00
Save!!!! Buy a luncheon & Dinner combo for $22.50
CALL
Karen Gore (417) 859-7287
Ione Dines (417) 859-2460
Sandra Speer (417) 718-1627
Sales locations United Country Real Estate Office , Webster County Library

Highlights Planned

2008 Marshfield Cherry Blossom Festival

Arpil 24th thru the 27th Thursday-Sunday: 10:00 AM-5:00 PM (every hour on the hour)
Tour of the White House" conducted by former First Lady, Jackie Kennedy
The National First Families Library and Museum will present a "Tour of the White House" conducted by former First Lady, Jackie Kennedy Onassis. The tour which is a documented version of her original executive mansion tour. The tour was filmed by the national media and presented on live television.
Free to the public and historic in nature and presentation. Located on the city square, next door to Shields Pharmacy.


Thursday, April 24th, 2008:

TIME
FUNCTION
LOCATION
COST
START END
9AM   Japanese Lantern lighting Ceremony Hartley Park
Clay Street
Free
10AM   George Washington Bust Unveiling
Special Performances by the Strafford School Choir. A special presentation of Washington in every classroom project
Crossbridge Church
Free
11:15AM   Lecture for the National First Families Kleir Twins former Crew Chief of Air Force One
 Webster County Museum
Free
2:00PM   Cherry Blossom Tea Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Free
4:00PM   Cyclone Memorial Dedication (a) Hartley Park
Free
6:15 PM   Remembrances of a Holocaust survivor TBA  
         

(a) Honoring the victims of the April 1880 cyclone, Blind Boone presenation

Friday, April 25th, 2008:

TIME
FUNCTION
LOCATION
COST
START END
9:00AM   Stacy Cordery Reception
author of Alice ( book about Alice Roosevelt Longworth, oldest daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt) Author will speak and sign books
 Condo Building  FREE
10:00AM  11AM Cherry Blossom Book Signing
Meet the Authors and meet" Cherry the Chicken"
Condo Building, Corner of Clay and Jackson Street FREE
11:30AM   Betty Lynn Scholarship luncheon- First Annual event to raise funds for a scholarship for someone participating in the arts First Baptist Church  $12.00
2:00 P.M   Missouri Walk of Fame ceremony- Honoring Famous Missourians (C) Cross Bridge Church, Jackson Street FREE
4:45 P.M   Harry S Truman Symposium- Honoring Pearl Harbor Survivors
A forum featuring the day of infamy, presenting the Cherry Blossom Award to three Webster County Peal Harbor widows.
Danny Cheek of Kona, Hawaii will moderate.
Cross Bridge Church, Jackson Street FREE
7:00 P.M   Hubble Dinner
Presenting the Edwin P. Hubble Medal of Initiative
Honoring: Frank Buckles (World War I veteran and Missouri native), Fred Crane and others
First
Baptist Church
 $15.00

(C) Returning honorees will be joined by 2008 honorees. Including: Roger Baum, Robert Cummings, Margaret Truman Daniel and others

Saturday, April 26th: Be Sure To Check Our Entertainment Link at the MAC

TIME
FUNCTION
LOCATION
COST
START END
7:00AM   Vendors set up at 7 A.M.   MAC  
    City Wide Garage Sale    
7AM 10AM Older American Center Pancake Breakfast All you can eat, call 859-3555 Crittenden Street $4.25 for adults, $2.00 for children 12 and under
8:30AM   Cherry Blossom Sunrise Service bringing the faith community together to worshipSaturday. Speaker: Donna Douglas (Ellie Mae Clampett) and Cherry Blossom Medal presentation to Pastor Rosie Breeze, local African missionary. Special music provided Cross Roads Evangelical Methodist Church, North Marshall FREE
9AM   Indoor Booths Open Marshfield Activity Center, A Highway  FREE
9AM   "Let's Get Shady"Horse Shoe Tournament
Sanctioned tournament 417-859-27 81 In case of inclement weather tournament will be canceled
Rotary Park  $10.00 entry fee
10AM   Musical Entertainment Begins Marshfield Activity Center, A Highway  
11AM   Harry S Truman Bench Dedication
Keynote speaker: John Truman, President Harry S Truman's nephew
Rotary Park Free Admission
11AM   WWII Memorial Dedication, John Truman featured speaker. Military ceremony by Webster County Veterans Memorial Association. This Arbor Day celebration sponsored by Marshfield Tree City Advisory Committee will give 500 Redbud seedlings to visitors.
Heritage Celebration Trailway, Rotary Park
Free
11AM   Little Miss and Mr. Cherry Blossom Contest
For more information call 417-859-4774
Cross Bridge Church
Jackson Street
 Free
1PM   R.M.S. Titanic Memorial Dedication
Honoring those from Missouri who were aboard the R.M.S. Titanic, Keynote speaker: Mary Joyce, who's father was a Titanic survivor
Corners of Maple and Clay Street Free Admission
2PM   Robert Cummings(comedian and actor) and Mitch Jaynes (The Darlings)
will receive their Walk of Fame star and short speeches,Mitch will do a book signing.
Cross Bridge Church FREE
2PM   Cherry Pie Contest
Call 417-468-2324 for more information
Webster County Library FREE
3PM   Lady Bird Johnson Memorial Grove
The Cherry Blossom Festival honors Lady Bird Johnson with a grove of Cherry Blossom trees
The Marshfield Mail FREE
4:15PM   Cherry Blossom Queen Contest
Call 417-859-4143 for more information
Cross Bridge Church, Jackson Street
FREE
5PM   canceled
   
7PM   President's Forum
Featuring members of the nations First Families
Jubilee Theater, Commercial Stre FREE


Sunday, April 27th:

TIME
FUNCTION
LOCATION
COST
START END
9:00AM   Indoor Booths open Marshfield Activity Center NC
 9AM   Horse Shoe Tournament
(click more details)
Open, non-sanctioned
call 417-859-2781 for more information
In case of inclement weather tournament will be canceled
 Rotary Park   $10 entry fee
 2:30PM   Featuring: First Grace and the Hallelujah Singers
Benefit for the Callaway Cabin Restoration Project of Hidden Waters Park
 First Baptist Church  Free Concert



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