BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

The ever-popular car and motorcycle will be among the key events at the annual Cherry Blossom Festival, set for Saturday, May 7 at Logan Park.

The event is sponsored by the Cherryvale Chamber of Commerce.

The car and motorcycle will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with registration set from 9 a.m. to noon. Entry fee is $15.00 per vehicle.
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CHERRYVALE — The Cherry Blossom Festival will have a new feature beginning in 2011: the coronation of the Cherry Blossom Festival Queen.

On Monday, members of the Cherryvale Chamber of Commerce, which sponsors the festival, heard details about the queen contest, which is designed to enhance the festival activities while also promoting ideal citizenship among teenage girls.
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CHERRYVALE — A divided Cherryvale City Council clashed Monday whether alcohol should be served at Logan Park for a possible community fall festival.

At issue are ideas by the Cherryvale Chamber of Commerce to create a fall festival that might supplement — or possibly even replace —  the Cherry Blossom Festival held each May. During a meeting of the chamber’s board of directors last week, ideas were expressed on ways to improve to the spring festival. One suggestion was to create a fall festival, perhaps coinciding with the fall sports homecoming celebration at Cherryvale High School. As a way to boost revenue for the festival, some chamber members discussed ideas to sell alcohol in a social setting, commonly known as a beer garden. The beer garden, which would be sponsored by the Cherryvale Chamber of Commerce, could coincide with a food competition, such as a chili or barbecue contest on a Saturday evening and would not be held on the night of the CHS football homecoming game on the previous Friday night.
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