Lions Club set for hoedown

There will be a number of bicentennial events leading up to the celebration July 5, and one of the more toe-tapping events is bound to be the Lions Club Hoedown to be held at the Rock Island Lions Club Community Center this Saturday, June 21 beginning at 6 p.m. Admission is free.
According to Lions Club member Kelly Marlowe, this will be an official bicentennial event and a joint presentation of the Rock Island, McMinnville and Warren County Lions Clubs.
Marlowe says this event is going to live up to its name.
‘This is going to be a good-time-had-by-all type of event,’ said Marlowe. ‘There will be some clogging, some square dancing, an old-time cakewalk. We will have a live band coming from over around Whitwell, which somebody told me is called the Fiery Gizzard Band. The fiddler is Bob Townsend. He’s called Fiddlin’ Bob Townsend, and he’s played up at Rocky River several times and he’s a really good old-time fiddler. So we’ve got a live band playing, and we’ll have some CDs too.’
Marlowe says delicious food and treats won’t be hard to find.
‘We’ve got some great homemade cakes for the cakewalks,’ Marlowe said. ‘We’ll have sandwiches, hot dogs, nachos and other refreshments for sale, so there will be some good eating.’
Marlowe says there will be some other hoedown-type activities too.
‘We’re going to have a little silent auction going on with some really nice items,’ Marlowe said. ‘I think there’s a country ham, that’s always good, jewelry, flowers, and coupons for free pizza and free dinners at local restaurants.’
Marlowe says the goal is to mimic the old-time hoedowns of years past.
‘We’re encouraging everyone to dress in old-timey clothes like overalls, bonnets, that type of thing, but if they want to dress casual, blue jeans and shirt, that’s all right too,’ Marlowe said. ‘We just want to have a big time, so we invite everybody to come up and join us.’