When: 5:30 p.m. Friday, all day Saturday, and Sunday morning
Where: Eustis at Kern’s Inn, Stratton Plaza and the village
Outdoor Sporting Heritage Day
When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, with guide’s contest starting at 3 p.m.
Where: Association clubhouse, Old Skiway Road, Oquossoc
Festivals on tap for the county
The second annual Solar Blast in Eustis, and the annual Outdoor Heritage Day in Rangeley, will add to northern Franklin County’s summer festival season starting Friday.
The Blast, a benefit for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, runs Friday through Sunday.
The Rangeley Region Guides’ and Sportsmen’s Association will host the Outdoor Heritage Day at its clubhouse on Tuesday.
The Solar Blast, sponsored by the Flagstaff Area Business Association, will kick off with a buffet from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at Kern’s Inn and will continue that night with a live DJ and casino night.
At 10 a.m. Saturday, a “whatever floats your boat race” will take place at the town boat launch followed by an all-day poker run, kids’ games, crafts, an antique car display, fly-casting and street graffiti contests, and a Eustis vs. Stratton tug of war at 3:30 p.m.
The day will culminate with an outdoor concert and street dance starting at 7 p.m.
The weekend-long event will close with a pancake breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. Sunday at Kern’s Inn.
The showcase event at the Sporting Heritage Day will be the Maine guide competition starting at 3 p.m. One registered Maine guide will finish the day $250 wealthier after proving his or her fly-casting skills.
For the kids, Smokey Bear will make an appearance, and there will be fly-casting contests, outdoors skills demonstrations, crafts and food.
Two presentations will be new this year – an 18th century cooking demonstration over an open fire and a muzzle-loader demonstration and seminar on the firearms history.
There will also be several new vendors, including a dog breeder with 27 yellow Labrador retriever puppies.
“People will have to be careful going past that or they may end up with a puppy,” joked Kirby Holcombe, one of the event’s organizers Wednesday.
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