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Plans Underway for Kool-Aid Days 2008

The Kool-Aid Days staff, board of directors, and volunteers are hard at work making plans for Kool-Aid Days 2008.  As always, the festival will take place the second weekend in August - Friday the 8th through Sunday the 10th. 

We a number of exciting announcements to make in the coming weeks, including the performers for Koncert Kool-Aid and special participants in the Grand Parade and downtown entertainment.

We expect to have the website completely updated by the first of May, but there will be changes on some part of the site almost every day until then, so keep checking back.  We're making minor updates to the rules for the Jammers Boat Races and Kwickest Kool-Aid Drinking Contest have already been posted.  There are no changes to the Kardboard Boat Race rules, and the new entry forms will be before June 21st.  If you're looking for the 2008 Kool-Aid Days Kollectibles and T-Shirts, we expect to have them available around the first of June.

Schedule Changes for Kool-Aid Days 2008

Three of the primary events at Kool-Aid Days are changing schedules for the 2008 festival:

1) The Kool-Aid Days Golf Scramble is going to be played on the Friday, August 1st, a week before Festival Weekend.  The Scramble will start with lunch at noon.  Click here for more information.

2) The Kool-Aid Jammers Boat Races are being moved to later in the day on the Friday of Festival Weekend, August 8th.  Boats will go on display at 4 pm and race heats will begin at 5 pm.  We've made this change to beat the heat and make it easier for parents and other family members to attend and cheer on your favorite Jammers boats.  Click here for more information.

3) By popular request, we've moved the Kwickest Kool-Aid Drinking Contest preliminaries to Saturday morning in Downtown Hastings.  The prelims will be held on our new "Second Stage" behind the Hastings City Auditorium in the small park at the intersection of 4th Street and Denver Avenue.  The finals will be held Saturday afternoon on the Downtown Mainstage, as usual, but at 3 pm, an hour later than in previous years.  Click here for more information.