Sunday’s schedule at the Slocum Township Fire Company Community Bazaar included a car show in the morning, with several muscle cars and other cool rides on display in the field.
Kevin Carroll | Times Leader
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Two ponies, grazing in their pen, were available for children to ride around the pen.
Kevin Carroll | Times Leader
The parade began shortly after 4 p.m., and featured first responder vehicles from nearly a dozen different companies, along with some of the vehicles from the earlier car show, processing down Slocum Road.
Kevin Carroll | Times Leader
Travis Parker, 6, has his face painted a ghoulish skeletal design by Roxanne from Trading Faces Face Art.
Kevin Carroll | Times Leader
SLOCUM TWP. — With help from some firefighting friends, the Slocum Township Fire Company highlighted the third and final day of their annual bazaar with a dazzling parade that delighted children and parents lined up along Slocum Road.
Fire and ambulance departments from all over Mountain Top and beyond, with representation as far north as a vehicle from Avoca, turned on the sirens, blasted the horns and wrapped up the Community Bazaar with a bang on Sunday.
The parade served as a main event of sorts for Sunday’s activities at the bazaar, which began on Friday evening and ran until 10 p.m. Sunday.
Travis Parker, 6, was excited for the parade to start, and just as excited about his brand-new facepaint design, courtesy of Roxanne from Trading Faces Face Art.
Parker, sporting a spooky, skeletal design, couldn’t choose just one part of the bazaar that he was enjoying the most.
When asked, he simply shrugged and said “all of it.”
Certainly, there was plenty to see and do for children like Parker, along with plenty of sights and sounds for adults, all over the bazaar grounds behind the fire company.
Sunday began with a car show starting at 10 a.m., with plenty of hot rides on display for all to see. Several of the cars entered in the show would also pull double-duty, falling in line with the first responder vehicles for the parade.
Inside the bazaar, some of the popular stops around the grounds included a raffle tent, chock full of fun prizes up for grabs to a lucky winner.
The raffle included nearly 100 donations from local businesses and individuals, and among the prizes were a bundle of tickets to the upcoming NASCAR race at Pocono Raceway.
Pony rides were available for the children, along with several traditional bazaar-style games and some more unique booths, like a do-it-yourself tie dye T-shirt station.
And of course, there was the face painting table, always a popular choice for children trying to look like their favorite superhero, comic book character or (in Parker’s case) a more ghostly figure.
Around 3 p.m., the fire trucks began to arrive and line up in formation for the parade, which took the convoy of vehicles out of the fire hall grounds, onto Slocum Road where they did a lap around the township before returning to the grounds.
Several threw candy to spectators, several honked their horns in greeting and all who participated brought smiles to the faces of the folks lining the street to watch the parade pass by.