“HISTORY & PROGRESS!” is this year’s festival theme, starting Friday night, June 6th and ending Sunday, June 8th. Three days of fun, food, adventure, rides, live music and supporting the local farmers and community. The experience and determination of a core group of chamber, business, village, town and agri-business folks is moving the festival into its 20th year of existence. FRIDAY night, the music tent will be hopping, along with a large variety of food stands, amusement rides, all between the hours of 5pm and 11pm. SATURDAY is packed full of activities for all ages. The day kicks off with a 2-hour parade and a fabulous trade show. Throughout the day, visitors can enjoy activities like the Civil War encampment, huge craft show, popular antique and classic car shows (2008 includes The Great Race around the World event), ducky derby, amusement rides, kids’ farm activity tent, petting zoos, Channel 7’s Mike Randall and his puppet friends and lots of demonstrations. There will also be a fantastic array of music concluding with the terrific fireworks display at 10:15pm. SUNDAY, noon to 5pm features popular music and dance groups, lots of food, rides, farm activity tent, petting zoos, craft show, bike parade & rodeo and more. Plans are coming together, but we still have one hurdle to jump and that’s FUNDING. The cost of the fireworks, music, parade, tents, port-a-johns, 2-way radios, advertising, contest expenses is estimated at approximately $14,000. If you helped us last year – THANK YOU – can you please help us again this year? If you couldn’t contribute last year, CAN YOU THIS YEAR? We try to make your sponsorship very visible before, during and after the festival. Your business name will be publicized in the following ways: on NUMEROUS press releases and “Moos Letters” in PennySavers from Blasdell/Lackawanna to Olean. In a special WNY Summer Guide from Lockport to Olean, two newspapers, the Hamburg Sun and Springville Journal. Your business name will also appear on special event boards placed throughout the festival grounds, the entertainment stage, on the WNY Dairy/Ag Festival website, on WSPQ radio before the festival, and in the official festival newspaper, which is distributed to 35,000 area homes. We are adding live P.A. announcements during the festival on Saturday. YOUR NAME WILL BE EVERYWHERE!!! Start-up monies are needed now to get this off the ground. If possible, please write your check NOW to: WNY Dairy/Ag Festival and mail it to: Festival Sponsorship, c/o Springville PennySaver, 41 East Main Street, Springville, NY 14141. THANK YOU FOR YOUR MUCH NEEDED SUPPORT!!! Sincerely, Joan Taylor, Chairman 2008 WNY Dairy/Ag Festival ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yes, our company_______________________________________________, would like to help sponsor the WNY Dairy/Ag Festival for 2008. Our check for $___________ is enclosed. Our company would also like to participate at the festival in: ______ a booth space ______ in the parade ______ event/activity ______ not at this time