A blend of music, food, hiking, and blueberry picking marked the return of the blueberry festival at Shames Mountain on Aug. 12. The event, organized by the Shames Mountain Ski and Snowboard Club, commemorated the club鈥檚 50th anniversary during the 2023 Riverboat Days festival.

Shames Mountain Ski and Snowboard Club director Chance Healey said the festival was an annual tradition at Shames Mountain approximately 20 years ago, featuring events such as small concerts. To celebrate the club鈥檚 milestone anniversary, it was decided to resurrect the popular festival.

鈥淭his was one of the first events we thought we would do that with, as there are limited activities you can do up at Shames Mountain in the summer months,鈥� he said.

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Healey said the festival could serve as a catalyst for more community-centric activities at Shames Mountain, both with the ski and snowboard club and the broader community.

He did acknowledge the difficulty in finding volunteers, saying, 鈥淓veryone wants these events, but there鈥檚 no volunteer base to come out and help, so this was a way to try and find things that might get other people interested and helping as well.鈥�

While Healey recognizes the , he insisted that they had 鈥渘o bearing at all for whether we were going to do the event or not.鈥�

鈥淚 don鈥檛 see any reason why we will not be having it next year and we鈥檒l most likely be adding onto it,鈥� Healey added.

An added attraction for those attending were the blueberries themselves with people picking what they needed for muffins, pies or pancakes back home.

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