Barnesville Area Chamber of Commerce Creates Back to School Fun
Barnesville Area Chamber of Commerce’s third Fun in the Ville event this summer will feature a “Back to School” theme this coming Thursday.
The free event will get underway at 4 p.m. and run until 7 p.m. on August 7 in the West Main Street parking lot and along Main Street.
The chamber of commerce is teaming up with the school district’s Melissa Dodd of the Title 1 Department to stage the event. Students will pick up backpacks at the Barnesville Elementary School and make their way to the parking lot to collect school supplies from participating area businesses and organizations. Businesses who want to participate or those with questions can still reach out to Dodd at melissa.dodd@bevsd.org.
An estimated 500 students will take part in the event. Barnesville Area Chamber of Commerce Director Jill Hissom described the backpack event as similar to “trick or treating”. Students have their backpacks open ready for supplies for the coming school year.
Also Thursday at 6 p.m., five teams dressed in inflatables, will compete in an obstacle course from the elementary school on N. Broadway down to the corner of Main Street and from Domino’s Pizza to The Corner Pharmacy along West Main Street.
Ace pitchers will try their luck hitting the target and hopefully dropping a number of coaches and school staff into a dunk tank. A face painter will color children’s faces, while Barnesville Library will provide children’s activities and the chamber will run Tic Tac Toe Boards and other games.
Teams participate in a relay race dressed in inflatables at last year’s Barnesville Area Chamber of Commerce “Back to School” Fun in the Ville.
Sponsors for the event include the Blue Moon Tavern for DJ Rucker, Rumer-Loudin, Inc. for the dunk tank and Barnesville Exempted Village School District for the giant inflatable slide.
Food for the event includes selections from food trucks Penguin Playground, Hudson’s Brick Oven Pizza and Insane Food Train.
Hissom thanks everyone who takes part in Fun in the Ville and the many businesses and organizations that make it possible.
“I always look forward to seeing how the community comes together with this …,” Hissom said. “This is a great event. It shows how our community wants to help out, and the businesses and the organizations want to help the kids start a successful school year.”
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