Norton, Ohio - 20th Annual Cider Festival - This year located in the beautiful Columbia Woods Park!

Welcome to the Norton Cider Festival Website. This year celebrating its 20th YEAR!! Please plan on attending the Norton Cider Festival, now located at the beautiful Columbia Woods Park at 4060 Columbia Woods Dr., Norton OH 44203!! This year's Festival has been extended to 3 days, to be held on Friday, September 26th through Sunday, September 28th. Mark your calendars to spend an ENTIRE fun~filled weekend here at the 20th Annual Norton CiderFest! We'll see you there!

ANNIVERSARY!
For general information
Contact the CiderFest Committee at:

Blake Miller, Norton CiderFest Chairman
@ 330-825-3814
Mailing address:
2748 Floraway Dr, Norton OH 44203

or call the City of Norton @:
330-825-7815 x14

e-mail:
nortonciderfest@cityofnorton.org

Notice to Festival Vendors and Attendees:
The 20th Anniversary Norton Cider Festival
(formerly known as the Loyal Oak Cider Festival)
has moved the location of the Festival
to the beautiful and spacious
Columbia Woods Park area, located at
4060 Columbia Woods Dr., Norton OH 44203

How did the
Cider Festival begin?
by Blake Miller, Lion's Club member and Originator of the 1st Cider Festival

The Cider Festival came about when the Loyal Oak Merchants Association: Don and Susan Welch from Welch's Dairy Cream, the Milkovich's of the Loyal Oak Tavern and Don Nicolard from Nicolard's Salon, came to me as the President of the Norton Lions with the idea of having some sort of event to bring people to the Loyal Oak area. We considered having an Octoberfest or some other various event.
We ultimately decided to have a Cider Festival because of all the years that the Lions Club members had been selling cider at the intersection of Wadsworth Rd. and Cleveland-Massillon Rd. due to the close location of the historic cider mill located in the Loyal Oak area.
The first festival was held September 23rd and 24th of 1989.   This was the year that Hurricane Hugo landed on the United States and it reached here in Norton at 5:00 am that Saturday. We had torrential horizontal rain, but by 9:30 am it had stopped raining and we had the parade. It turned out to be a beautiful weekend!
I hope you have the chance to come visit the 20th Anniversary Norton Cider Festival, now located in the beautiful and spacious Columbia Woods Park. We still plan a lot of the traditional Festival activities, along with many new fun things to do. We'll see you there!!
              ~Blake Miller,
                                  2008 Cider Festival Chair

This Community Event is Sponsored by the Norton Lions

This event serves as a main fundraiser
for the year.
Please help support this valuable Community Service Organization!

Woo Hoo!!!

as of 9/20/08 (subject to change)

Click the Magical Train picture!!
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Websites for our two
Headliner Bands playing
Friday Night 8:00-11:00
Mystic Taxi
Saturday Night 7:30-10:00
Blue Lunch

See Festival Event Applications
BELOW!!!

MAP OF THE PARADE AREA

Find Columbia Woods Park on Google Maps

Hours of Operation for the Festival are:
Friday, September 26, 2008

5:00pm to 11:00pm

Saturday, September 27, 2008

8:00am to 11:00pm
(Fireworks at 8:30!!!)

Sunday, September 28, 2008

11:00am to 6:00pm

Event Info & Applications

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PARADE APPLICATION