2016 West Oak Walk District Fall Festival

• Location: West Toledo
  • Sylvania Ave between DeVeaux Elementary School and Bowen Road
• Date: Sat, Oct 22, 2016
• Time: Noon to 7:00 p.m.

(Official statement and schedule of activities)

Walk, bike, drive, or dance your way to the WOW District Fall Festival. Shop from local craft vendors, visit the businesses and restaurants along Sylvania Avenue, try something new from one of the many food trucks, or just enjoy the many activities that will be happening with neighbors, family, and friends.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

Noon – 7pm:

• Visit 50 crafters in the Artist Village
• 20 Direct Sales Vendors
• 50/50 Raffle: Bethany House, Mobile Meals, Nightingale’s Harvest
• Twin Oaks Cornhole Station
• Kids Train Ride ($2/ride)
• Henna Artist Afreen
• Toledo Fire Truck
• Tour the neighborhood on a pedicab (Tips are cool!)
• Bennett Orchard Pumpkin Patch
• Food Truck Vendors!
• Bowling at Twin Oaks Lanes ($2 per game per person)
• 5 minute chair massages (Tips welcome!)
• Noon – 4pm: Janet Amid Astrology at Kathy’s Confections
• Noon – 3pm: Olivia Parr Face Painting
• Noon – 3pm: Toledo Humane Society Pet Adoption
• Noon – 2pm: Bring your pups to Clip ’n Dales for a free nail trim
• 1 – 7pm: Knockerballs ($5 for 5 minutes)
• 1 – 1:30pm: Pet Costume Contest at Clip ’n Dales
• 5 – 5:30pm: Kids Costume Contest at Clip ’n Dales

STAGE A (in front of Craig’s Pianos and Keyboards)

• Noon – 2pm: Kyle White
• 2 – 2:30pm: Irish Dancers
• 2:45 – 3:45pm: Collaboration
• 4 – 7pm: TSA Glass City Steel Drum Band

STAGE B (at Grantley & Sylvania)

• Noon – 2pm: Marty Britsch
• 2 – 4pm: Forte Music School Students
• 4 – 5:30pm: Wanna Bees
• 5:30 – 6:15pm: Cardio Drumming with Kyronne Jackson

STAGE C (DeVeaux Elementary)

• Noon – 3pm: Grape Smugglers
• 4 – 7pm: Swingmania

STROLLING PERFORMERS

• TSA Pageant Puppets
• Dennis Weigel– Magician
• Sweet Harmony
• Fourwinds
• Katie Bar at the Door
• Temperance Union

Help celebrate the revitalization of West Toledo and all that our little corner of the city has to offer!

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Oct 21, 2016 Toledo Blade story

There’s a new neighborhood festival popping up in West Toledo on Saturday.

West Oak Walk, as it’s been named, is hosting a daylong street fair along West Sylvania Avenue from noon to 7 p.m. There will be a roving magician, steel drum band, and barber shop quartet among the 15 performing acts set to be in place throughout the day, said Kathy Carey, owner of Kathy’s Confections and one of the festival organizers.

The festival will shut down Sylvania Avenue between DeVeaux Elementary School and Bowen Road — Bowen will remain open to through traffic — and from Bowen to Elmhurst Street, leaving Elmhurst open to traffic.

Ms. Carey said she and other business owners, with residents in the neighborhood, started meeting about six months ago to talk about how to bring more attention to the businesses along the Sylvania Avenue corridor, between Secor and Douglas roads.

In addition to the 15 performing acts, there will be an art walk with more than 40 artists set up near a new mural on the side of the Cake Arts Supply building, 2858 W. Sylvania. There also will be a scavenger hunt among local businesses, raffles benefiting local charities, face painting, costume contests for children and pets, pedicabs, and food trucks.

Tom Waniewski, the city councilman who represents the neighborhood, has long advocated turning Sylvania, between Secor and Douglas, into a walkable mile of local businesses. He envisions the strip like Short North in Columbus.

Ms. Carey said the fall festival is the first event of the neighborhood and the newly formed West Oak Walk Business Association, but they plan to do more, like a Christmas tree lighting, an Easter egg hunt, and possibly a summertime farmers’ market.