Plenty of Labor Day celebrations this weekend
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Communities throughout the area are hosting Labor Day events and celebrations this holiday weekend. The festivities include:
ESCANABA
The celebration in Escanaba begins at noon Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 4 with a parade down Ludington Street featuring members of local unions. The parade starts at the Marketplace and ends at the Municipal Dock.
Festivities turn to the Escanaba Municipal Dock at 1 p.m. for a day full of activities. The event is free and open to the public. Music and food will be available with Where's Gary performing from 1 to 4 p.m. and We Ain't Saints taking the stage from 4:30 to 8 p.m. There will also be a Bloody Mary bar and beer tent open from 12 to 8 p.m.
There will be a petting zoo, obstacle course and bounce house for children. The golf ball drop is scheduled at 6 p.m. and the Sandpoint Lighthouse and Delta County Historical Museum will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
On Sunday, Labor Day on the Dock will be held at Ludington Park -- an event to support the Civic Center. The event is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. with music by Angels and Outlaws from 12 to 3 p.m. There will also be a petting zoo, crafts, vendors and food.
ROCK
The 78th Annual Rock Lions Club Labor Day Celebration will be held Saturday, Sept 2. The parade begins at 11 a.m.
Festivities continue at the Lions Club grounds after the parade. Activities include a bounce house, kids tractor pulls, bean bag tournament, cowpie bingo, a flea market and more. There will be live music by the Pink Violin Band.
Food and beverages will be available.
On Friday night, Sept. 1, Big Al and the Tomatas will be performing at Herb's Bar at 4 p.m. along with an evening of outside games and a bonfire.
U.P. STEAM & GAS ENGINE ASSOCIATION SHOW
The U.P. Steam and Gas Engine Association 48th Annual Show will be held at the antique village in the U.P. State Fairgrounds in Escanaba Friday, Sept 1 through Monday, Sept. 4. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday.
The show features a wide array of vintage tractors. This year, Oliver Farm Machinery is being featured. The event also has one of the largest indoor/outdoor flea markets in the Upper Peninsula, as well as an auto show and gun and knife show.
Shops in the antique village will be open and the vintage sawmill will be operating.
There will also be daily tractor parades. A vintage chainsaw competition is scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday and there will be threshing demonstrations Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tractor games are planned at 11 a.m. Saturday, a decorating contest at 10 a.m. Sunday, and tractor slow races Saturday and Sunday. Tractor pulls are planned at 2 p.m. Sunday. There will be a barn dance Saturday and Sunday nights
NAHMA
The Nahma Labor Day Celebration will be held at the Nahma Township Park Sunday, Sept. 3. Festivities begin with a parade at 11 a.m. Participants should line up at the golf course for the parade.
Activities include a car show, craft tables, raffles, kids games, bounce house, kids escape room, log sawing and nail pounding contests, cake walk, horseshoe contest, cornhole contest, face painting and more.
There will be live music from noon to 8 p.m. by Backroads 906 and Minor & the Elders.
Food, beer and refreshments will be available.
CEDAR RIVER
The Cedar River Bridge Walk will take place the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend -- September 2.
The Cedar River Bridge Walk festivities begin at 10:30 a.m. CST with live entertainment for the crowd gathering to participate in this year's ceremonies.
Beginning ceremonies will begin at 11 a.m. and take place at the Cedarville Township Hall and Volunteer Fire Department on the north end of the Cedar River Bridge just off of State Highway M-35 on Old Mill Lane across from the Cedar River State Harbor.
The bridge walk will take the festival goers, after opening ceremonies, south over the bridge to the festival grounds at The Halfway Bar and Grill (aka Cedar River Pub)
The festival features a unique bridge walk, dubbed the "Biggest Littlest Bridge Walk." Near a football field in length, the Cedar River Bridge is much shorter and easier on the feet than the five plus mile mighty Mackinac Bridge Walk.
The event will feature live music by the Rotten Ones from Green Bay, Wisconsin, food, refreshments, various raffles, and a wide range of vendors selling crafts and products. New this year is the addition of chicken-poop-bingo with cash prizes, as well as sportsmen items.
This year's Cedar River Bridge Walk is a fundraiser for the Cedarville Township Volunteer Fire Department, Sportsmen with Heart, and Cedar River Chapel's Community Fund.