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Monday, June 22, 2009 11:43 AM

Photo by Elliot J. Sutherland/The Ottawa Herald

Rain pours down Saturday afternoon around Antonio Trimble, 10, left, and his brother, Blake Trimble, 8, center left, as the two play a carnival game. Gary Hoopes, seated, and John Vinsonhaler look on during Jayhawker Days in Williamsburg. The three-day event included a parade, street dance and carnival.

Boosters call Jayhawker Days a success

By BRIAN WILLIAMS, Herald Staff Writer

Photo by Elliot J. Sutherland/The Ottawa Herald

Stacey Robinson, with Robinson Carving Co., uses a chainsaw Saturday afternoon to carve a jayhawk from a solid piece of wood during Jayhawker Days in Williamsburg. Robinson made several wood sculptures throughout the day.

WILLIAMSBURG — A little rain never hurt anyone.

Intermittent Saturday showers may have made Jayhawker Days damper than usual, but it didn’t drown out the annual festival.

“It’s been a successful weekend,” Dee Horne, president of the Jayhawker Booster Club, said Saturday afternoon after the rains had passed.

Horne said Friday’s picnic, ice cream social and music drew a good crowd.

“It’s been a very wet day. We hoped to have a better turnout, but we can’t complain,” Dealy Sims, leader of Girl Scout Troop 3254, said about Saturday’s attendance.

“It was dry enough to set up, then it began sprinkling,” Sims said.

The Girl Scouts ran the inflatable carnival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Inflatables included a moonwalk, a jousting arena and an obstacle course.

“I think rain kept a lot of people away,” Sims said.

The Girl Scouts also had several games and activities set up, including a basketball shoot, a face-painting and tattoo booth and a pingpong shoot, where pingpong balls were shot off of golf tees with water guns.

The scouts plan to use the proceeds from the carnival to raise money for a trip to see the ocean. Sims said the girls hadn’t decided whether they wanted to go to Texas to see the Gulf of Mexico or to California to see the Pacific Ocean.

With the rain on Saturday, it seemed like a little of the ocean came to see them.

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Boosters call Jayhawker Days a success

By BRIAN WILLIAMS, Herald Staff Writer

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