From the Oakhurst Community Garden site…

Join us for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and a great chance for members of the community to come together and participate at the city’s OFFICIAL Earth Day Party! The event is absolutely FREE!

The celebration will kick off with a parade that will go from Harmony Park to the Community Garden site, beginning at 12:30 pm. We have an exciting array of events planned for children, youth and adults including:

• Kids Crafts
• Music including the Tessitura Drummers, Morgan Rowe, Sydney Rhame and others
• A Live Raptor Show! (need we say more!)
• Special Earth Day T-shirt contest
• Checkin’ out the resident Chicks and Bees in the Garden
• World Famous Cake Contest
• Book Reading event
• Earth Friendly Vendors
• And MORE!

See the Full Schedule after the jump!

Schedule

• 12:30 p.m. Parade starts in Harmony Park- downtown Oakhurst (parade participants gather between noon and 12:15 p.m.)
• 1 p.m. Event starts at the Oakhurst Community Garden Project
• 1 p.m. Raptor demo, story telling
• 1:30 p.m. Earth Day T-Shirt and Cake Contest winners announced
• 2 p.m. Raptor demo, story telling
• 2:30 p.m. Story telling
• 3 p.m. Raptor demo, story telling
• 3:30 p.m. Story telling
• 4 p.m. Event over!

Crafts on-going throughout the day!

On the Big Stage

• 1 p.m. Sewe Village Drummers opening
• 1:30 p.m. T-shirt, Cake Contest, and Lawns to Lettuce announcment
• 2 p.m. PachaMamas
• 2:30 p.m. Sydney Rhame from Oakhurst
• 3 p.m. WSA String Sextet
• 3:30 p.m. Academe of the Oaks Performance Choral and Strings

Located at Oakhurst Community Garden Project, 435 Oakview Road, Decatur, GA 30030