It’s a crawdad happening

Event: Friday, May 8th through Sunday, May 10th

If your interest is in cooking, or eating or even both, this is the event for you.

Lakeside can boast of being a destination resort area offering a variety of water fun, fishing, and has an ocean only two miles away.

But, Lakeside can also boast of recently located residents that haven’t retired to do their own thing, but to do their community a favor.

They bring their best, and demonstrate what can be done when you pool your resources and expertise. They are willing to step up and spend sweat capital to show off their community.

It isn’t often that long time residents and new arrivals can come together with old and new ideas to create what is likely to be an annual draw of visitors from far and wide.

One of the organizer’s Mattie Lane, is proud to call Lakeside home after retiring and moving here 6 years ago. Others, like her, having lived in Lakeside approximately the same length of time want to make a difference in helping Lakeside grow.

Press release:

Annual Lakeside Crawdad Festival, May 8-10, 2009

Friday

Looking for something different to do on a weekend! Come to the 1st Ever Annual Lakeside Crawdad Festival. Friday, May 8, will start opening celebrations at 6:00 p.m. with a Cajun Cook-Off.

Sampling will be only $2 per sample. Music will be provided by Charlie Freak and his band (original songs and new twists on old favorites) from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The street faire will open at 5:00 p.m.

Saturday

Saturday, May 9, the festival will continue with the street faire opening at 9:00 a.m. We are shipping in 1000 lbs of crawdads from Louisiana and having a Cajun Boil starting at 11:00 a.m.

The crawdad boil will be 1 lb of crawdads, corn and potatoes cooked with Cajun spices for only $6 per meal. The wine tasting tent hosts 7 local wineries; Palotai Vineyards, Sienna Ridge Estates, Becker Vineyard, Misty Oaks Vineyard, Wild Rose Vineyards, Old Coyote, and Henry Estates.

There will also be a beer garden sponsored by Budweiser, Western Division, with various beers including 4 micro brews. Music will be provided by Big Foot Blues from 12:00 pm to 4 pm. Big Foot Blues covers a range of Blues and Blues-based music with echoes of Muddy Waters, Big Joe Turner and Albert King. From 4 pm to 8 pm, music will be provided by Ambush playing all the most popular hits from the 70’s to today.

FOR THE KIDDIES – There will kiddie rides, face painting, and crawdad races. Starting at 12:30 pm kids get to catch their own crawdad and race them.

The TREASURE Run starts Saturday also. Pick up a ticket at a local merchant sponsoring the event, come to the Chamber of Commerce booth at the Festival, and for $5 get in the drawing for a 32” flat screen high definition TV donated by Oregon Satellite. Other prizes are 2 small drink refrigerators donated by Budweiser.

Sunday

Sunday, May 10, the Festival continues with the street faire and Cajun boil. The Lion’s is sponsoring a Pancake Breakfast where mom’s eat free. At 1:00 pm, Kelly Thibodeaux and the Etouffee will play Cajun zyedco music..

Have fun, listen to great music, eat, drink, dance and maybe win a TV. Hope to see you there…………