Meet the 2008 Turtle Days Board of Directors. In front, from left, Tracy Bultemeier, Kandy Bohde, Jamie Blessing, president, Kim Dietz, Rachel Fletcher; in back, Robin Ramsey, treasurer, Christi Woods, Kirk Gray, recording secretary, Rick Krider, Vince McEntee and Tom Fletcher, vice president.
CHURUBUSCO - The Turtle Days Festival Board of Directors barely has time to catch their breath before they must begin to make plans for next year’s festival.
In 2009, the festival - the longest continuously-running festival in Indiana - will celebrate its 60th year.
Preliminary plans include fireworks and a continuation and expansion of popular happenings - both the traditional events and the new events.
If you would like to share ideas, join the board, help plan the 2009 event or volunteer, call Blessing at 704-0629, Ramsey at 433-6250 or Gray at 409-5516.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:26 am
I would personally like to thank all the board members for their outstanding efforts, time, dedication, and lack of sleep to make this year’s Turtle Days Festival a success. Lots of hard work was expended by all to make our hopes, dreams and wishes for Turtle Days a reality.
To those out there that have said “thank you” either personally on on this forum we appreciate your acknowledments and accept them with our deepest sincerety.
If you are interested in helping at next years festival, don’t hesitate to contact anyone on the Turtle Days Board.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
As the resigning President of Turtle Days I would like to personally thank all of you who have supported me over the last several years. Without the support of my family and friends and this community Turtle Days would not have grown as it has. A BIG THANK YOU to our area businesses who have been awesome and really pulled through with not only financial support but also with those extra things whenever they were asked. Some just did things out of the goodness of their hearts, like Turtle Town Quick Lube/Auto Electric offering free water on Sat. of Turtle Days the last couple of years. Shroyer’s for always having all of those last minuet things that are always needed. Our area police dept. for keeping our town safe and helping out with the parade. The businesses that put out welcome Turtle Days on their marquees. The Busco library for offering book sales and music to bring more people into town. The Smith Green Community Schools for always graciously letting us use their lot for the annual car show. A SPECIAL THANK YOU to Kennie, Leroy and Diane Blessing for always being there when I had a million questions when I started the car show, and Shane Christlieb for always being there to provide the tunes. A SPECIAL HUGE THANK YOU for all of those people who came to the events and midway. I GREAT BIG THANK YOU to my kids for always helping out with whatever I asked them to do to help me get ready for Turtle Days, and a extra thank you to my oldest Jessie for building our web sit http://www.turtledays.com without her the web site would not exist. My mom deserves a BIG THANK YOU for helping with turtle days even before she was involved and this year for spending a insane amount of time on the beautiful brochure she put out. Also a COLOSSAL THANK YOU to James for keeping me sane this year without him there surly would have been a nervous break down LOL! This is just to name a few if I didn’t mention you its not that I forgot you or do not appreciate your involvement its just I could go on and on with the community support that I have received since I have been involved with Turtle Days. I have met some wonderful people in our community.
I have resigned to move on with other endeavors and to provide some much-needed support to my family. Please continue to support Turtle Days to help it grow and continue next year it’s a BIG year 60 years to be exact. Turtle Days is the oldest festival in Indiana that is something to be proud of! Help to make it the best year yet! Remember Turtle Days helps to support the Churubusco Town Park, so getting involved not only keeps Turtle Days going it also helps to maintain and improve our park.