Salida's annual FIBark Festival is now less than two months away. For Salida newbies, FIBark (First in Boating on the Arkansas) is an annual festival that includes kayak races, raft races, kayak rodeo, live entertainment, food vendors, a hill foot climb, games, air band competition, and more. Generally speaking, it's a huge party thrown in downtown Salida. In addition to the serious boat races there is also a Hooligan Race where anyone can enter their home-made water crafts.
The Hooligan Race is a "just for fun" boat race and in years past there have been all manner of zany and bizarre home-made boats entered. Well Team Roxy's loves to have fun so we will be entering the Hooligan Race this year with a boat built with recycled wine corks. Cork floats, right? We certainly hope it does.
To build this cork boat we have been collecting recycled wine corks in the store for the past few months and so far we've collected several thousand. (We haven't counted exactly how many.) The boat has already been designed and will be built over the next few weeks. We hope to test it in May on the placid waters of Frantz Lake.
But we don't have quite enough corks yet! We're about 80 percent there, though. So we playfully urge everyone to drink plenty of wine and bring us the corks as soon as you can. We need one or two thousand more corks. Just bring them by the store anytime. Every cork will be greatly appreciated. We thank everyone who already contributed corks and we thank everyone in advance who brings in more corks in the final hours leading up to boat production. Team Roxy's wants to win the Hooligan Race and we invite everyone out to the Race to cheer us on. It's all about having fun. We hope to see you there.
The Hooligan Race is a "just for fun" boat race and in years past there have been all manner of zany and bizarre home-made boats entered. Well Team Roxy's loves to have fun so we will be entering the Hooligan Race this year with a boat built with recycled wine corks. Cork floats, right? We certainly hope it does.
To build this cork boat we have been collecting recycled wine corks in the store for the past few months and so far we've collected several thousand. (We haven't counted exactly how many.) The boat has already been designed and will be built over the next few weeks. We hope to test it in May on the placid waters of Frantz Lake.
But we don't have quite enough corks yet! We're about 80 percent there, though. So we playfully urge everyone to drink plenty of wine and bring us the corks as soon as you can. We need one or two thousand more corks. Just bring them by the store anytime. Every cork will be greatly appreciated. We thank everyone who already contributed corks and we thank everyone in advance who brings in more corks in the final hours leading up to boat production. Team Roxy's wants to win the Hooligan Race and we invite everyone out to the Race to cheer us on. It's all about having fun. We hope to see you there.
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Go Team Roxy's!
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