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Crazy Days is a zany success
Scott Wagar
08/06/2013
It was three days of zany fun over the weekend in the Bottineau community when the Bottineau Chamber of Commerce held its annual Crazy Days festivity, which consisted of a variety of fun events for all ages.
Crazy Days kicked-off Thursday morning on Main Street with special offers on retail store sales and continued through late Saturday afternoon ending with a live performance of Highway 43 at the local fairground and the announcement of Bottineau’s Second Annual Spit Shine/Show-n-Shine car show winners.
Events took place throughout a variety of locations with the majority of the events taking place on Main Street and the fairground.
MAIN STREET
On Main Street there were retail promotions, vendors of all kinds, kids’ activities and great food offered during the weekend event.
FAIRGROUND
The fairground hosted the Spit Shine/Show-n-Shine car show, a women’s expo, a promotion center for the National Guard and the Bottineau County Sheriff’s Department, vendors and two concerts with Coldshot and Highway 43 performing.
AROUND TOWN
Outside of Main Street and the fairgrounds, there were bake sales throughout the town, a Man Cave Swap Meet at Tweed Country Ag, blood pressure clinic, work shops and a city wide parade.
AMVETS POST 25
Bottineau AMVETS Post 25 played an important role in Crazy Day. Post 25 hosted and presented the flags during the opening ceremony of the community event and held an American Flag Retirement Ceremony with over 100 flags that were donated to the organization to care for properly.
CAR SHOW
The Spit Shine/Show-n-Shine car show, under the direction of Fred and Lisa Kainz, was a three day event and brought in 134 vehicles to the local area. During the event there were a number of activities, which included a burn out competition, muffler rap and balance beam show. The participants also went on the 4 Seasons Playground Cruze through the Turtle Mountains visiting Mystical Horizons, Lake Metigoshe and the Scenic Byway.
Winners of the show included:
- Pre-1963 Stock Class
1st - Craig Gunning 1960 Impala
2nd - Gordon Disrud 1954 Chevy Bel Air
- Pre 1963 Hotrod Class
1st - Collin St. Croix - 1932 Ford Roadster
2nd - Fred Kainz - Custom Pontiac Tempest
- Post 1964 Stock Class
1st - Jason Disrud - Pontiac GTO
2nd - Tom Haugo - Black Chevelle
- Post 1964 Street Rod Class
1st - David & Colton Schroeder - Chevelle
2nd - Bryon Schmidt - 1967 Ford Fairlane
- Truck Class
1st - Mark Adams - 1948 Ford F1
2nd - Wayne Johnson - 1971 GMC
- Motorcycle Class
1st - Keith & Chris Anderson - Anderson Welding Custom Chopper
2nd - Mr. Fedge Westhope - Harley Davidson
- People’s Choice Award - Bryon Schmidt - 1967 Ford Fairlane
- Balance Beam - Fred Kainz
- Muffler Rap - Brady Soland
- Burn Out - Brady Soland
According to Clint Reinoehl, director of Bottineau’s Chamber of Commerce, he was very pleased with this year’s Crazy Days event.
“We are extremely happy with the way Crazy Days and the car show went this year and are already talking about how to make it bigger and better next year,” Reinoehl stated.
“We had a lot of people in town over the three day event and have heard a lot of positive feedback. We had over a hundred cars being judged in the car show and about 130 overall,” he continued.
“The parade was great, the car games, kids’ games, sales activities throughout the community were fantastic. It was great to see so much support and participation. The help and dedication from all of the volunteers was greatly appreciated.”