Olathe Sweet Corn Festival 2009

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More than 800 locals volunteer their time toensure the success of the event.

Attendees in 2008 consumed more than 70,000ears of “Olathe Sweet” sweet corn that was donatedby the Western Slope Vegetable GrowersAssociation.

Attendees in 2008 also consumed 8,000 gallons ofPepsi, 6 tons of ice, produced by Rocky MountainIce. Twenty-five hundred pancakes were eaten at theBank of Colorado’s annual pancake breakfast.

Attendees at the 2008 event came from all overColorado and all across the United States, increasingthe population of Olathe by 1400 percent the day ofthe festival.

Non-profit groups earned more than $55,000 at the2008 event.

The Olathe Sweet Corn Festival is an enterprisefund of the town of Olathe, governed by the OlatheTown Council and a seven member Advisory Boardappointed by the town.

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General Admission All Events Pass: 9:00 a.m. to clos-ing; includes evening concert and fireworks

All Tickets: $19 in advance; $22 at the gateSeniors 60+: $14 in advance; $17 at the gate

Children ages 3 to 12:$4.00 (except to the Reserved Seating Area)

Children under 2 FREE

Tickets available at:All Area City Markets; Alpine Bank; Olathe Town Hall;

Bank of Colorado in Olathe and Delta; Paperworks in Delta;Murdoch’s in Montrose

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Festival Director

Bobbi Sale

welcomes

newcomers and

festival veterans.

1992 850

(just 250 were expected)

1993 2,500

1994 6,600

1995 15,000

1996 20,000

1997 20,000

1998 20,323

1999 18,000

2000 15,000

2001 20,000+

2002 20,000+

2003 15,600

2004 15,900

2005 almost 18,000

2006 18,000

2007 18,500

2008 18,500

Corn Festival Facts

Dear Festival Attendees,

It’s my great pleasure to once again welcome everyone to the 18th annual Olathe

Sweet Corn Festival. Who would have thought that the little party we planned so

many years ago to celebrate the arrival of the “Olathe Sweet” Sweet Corn crop

would have grown into the fun and fantastic event that it is today.

As the director of one of the two largest events on Colorado’s Western Slope each

year, I consider myself one lucky lady. I get to spend my days planning a party for

upwards of 20,000 people who come from far and near to sample our hometown,

homegrown hospitality. Out of town guests can get a taste of what life is like in a

tiny, remote farming community and take a piece of Olathe home with them, and

locals love that they can take part in a fun-filled day and evening with great enter-

tainment right in their own back yard.

A survey of festival goers shows that the reasons people come are the two C’s—

the corn and the concert. You can eat your fill of world famous “Olathe Sweet”

sweet corn, and enjoy this year’s very sweet concert starring Clint Black.

Thanks to all who have come to my party in the past and are here again, and wel-

come to all of you first timers. Enjoy a festive day filled with food, fun, fireworks

and friends, both old and new. We welcome you to our hometown celebration.

Bobbi Sale, Executive Director

Olathe Sweet Corn Festival


Brent Wareham chosen Grand Marshall for18th Annual Olathe Sweet Corn Festival

Clint Black to take the stage at 2009Olathe Sweet Corn Festival

Every year the Olathe Sweet CornFestival concert gets bigger and better,and that tradition is continued in 2009with this year’s headliner, Clint Black.

His melodies are memorable. If youlove country music, they're virtually asoundtrack of the '90s. And when deliv-ered by the unmistakable voice of ClintBlack, they can, indeed change your"State of Mind."

The baby of Ann and G.A. Black's fourboys came to the music business withboundless optimism and purity ofintent. Clint's father is a passionatecountry fan who instilled the same fer-vor in his boys Mark, Brian, Kevin andClint. But it was the youngest whoshaped that passion into a truly individ-ual vision. Clint stole one of Brian's har-monicas at age 13 and taught himself toplay it. Two years later the teenagerlearned the rudiments of guitar. Almostovernight Clint was pursuing the museof music with astonishing focus anddevotion.

In retrospect, only a fool or a truly ded-icated musician would drop out of highschool to play bass in his brother Kevin'sband. It's a measure of Clint's passionthat he did that in 1978 and a mark ofhis strikingly mature professionalismthat he had his own solo gigs withinthree years. A 1981 booking in Houston's

Barton Springs led to eight solid years ofplaying on the local club circuit. Clintwas 25 when a chain of events suddenlybrought him to Nashville to play a tapein Joe Galante's RCA Records office.

At the time, Nashville was just begin-ning to flex its "young country" muscles.George Strait and Randy Travis haddemonstrated that there was a hungerfor imaginitively produced records basedon country traditions. Alabama andSawyer Brown had alerted the industryto a potentially vast youth market. Butmost of the "new country" headlinershad yet to emerge.

In this climate, Clint Black's arrivalwas splashy and spectacular. He raisedeyebrows by incorporating his bandmembers into his recording sessions,tunned everyone with his composingprowess and bowled Music Row over byscoring five No. 1 singles from his debutalbum, a feat then unprecedented in anyfield of music.

In 1989-90 Clint became a lightning rodfor the electricity in a new jolt of coun-try talent. He was in the vanguard of the"new-country" army that was thenmarching over the pop music horizon.

There were many in the movement.But no one else had Clint Black's distinc-tive quality as a tunesmith, the ability totwist a melody into a serpentine delight,

the talent to invest lyrics with multipleshadings and innuendo. Clint has therare gift of being able to craft songs thatare both artful and commercial, hits thatcan be taken either as audio candy or asinsightful poetry.

Clint was developing quite a reputa-tion. Observers couldn't help noting hisunflagging energy, professionalism,friendliness, magnetism and media coop-eration. "I wanted to be the perfectartist," he recalls. "I'd do three hours ofmedia interviews a day, going to everyradio station I could squeeze in. I'd signautographs after the show until every-body left." That dedication would practi-cally exhaust him in years to come, butin 1991 Clint was still in the warm lime-light of new stardom.

In 1993 Playboy named his "Black andWy" national tour with Wynonna itsConcert of the Year. Their summer duet"A Bad Goodbye" became anomnipresent radio hit and paved the wayfor the back-to-back successes of "NoTime to Kill" and "State of Mind." Clintand his wife, Lisa, became the firstentertainers to visit U.S. troops stationedin war-and-famine ravaged Somalia. Herounded out the year by singing thetheme song for TV's "Harts of the West"and contributing "Desperado" to theCommon Threads Eagles tribute, named

Album of the Year by the CMA.Billboard magazine named Clint Black

the Most-Played Country Radio Artist of1994. That was the year he staged his act-ing debut in TV's "Wings" and the movieMaverick. "A Good Run of Bad Luck,"performed for the Maverick soundtrack,became Clint's first directing job on a music video. He madehistory with his next two by creatingthem as the first clips shot on large-for-mat, 65mm film. He sang for a TV audi-ence of 50 million at the NationalMemorial Day Celebration inWashington, then for a viewership ofone billion at Superbowl XXVIII. Butinstead of following the industry trendof bigger and more spectacular concerts,he stripped things down to an "Up Close"series of performances that put him inintimate theater settings for intenselypersonal two-hour showcases.

If a man who has carved out such aspecial and individualistic body of hitsisn't "the perfect artist," he's pretty damnclose to it.

Be sure to come early for the auction ofa guitar signed by Clint Black at 7:15p.m., stay to enjoy opener The DavidStarr Band, and then settle in for Clint’sconcert beginning at 9 p.m. The concertwill be followed by Delta-MontroseElectric’s Fabulous Fireworks Show.

In honor of 25 years of teachingand coaching the young people ofthe Olathe community, the OlatheSpecial Events Advisory Board haschosen Brent Wareham as its GrandMarshall of the 2009 Olathe SweetCorn Festival.

"It's a nice honor," Brent stated,adding that he feels the annual sweetcorn festival represents the values ofa small hometown community.

The longtime successful baseballcoach at Olathe High School has

called the Delta/Olathe/Montrosearea home since he was 7 years old(he was born in Utah). He graduatedfrom Delta High School in 1977 andwent on to pursue both a bachelor'sand master's degree in educationfrom Western State College inGunnison. In addition to coaching,Brent has also taught Social Studiesand P.E. and has been involved withsummer baseball programs for manyyears.

He and his wife, Lynda, who is

vice-president of home mortgagesfor Montrose Bank, have been mar-ried for 29 years and are the parentsof two children: son, Landon andwife Casey of Montrose and daugh-ter, Danielle of Grand Junction.They are also the proud grandpar-ents of two grandchildren, GageWareham, age 4, and SadieWareham, age 2, of Montrose.

Since his retirement in May of thisyear (as activities director for OlatheMiddle School and Olathe High

School), Brent said he's now "movingon to different things.""I love to hunt and fish," he added.

He is also looking forward towatching and playing more baseball.Son, Landon recently took over ashead baseball coach for theMontrose Indians. In an interviewwith the Montrose Daily Press lastspring, Landon said of his dad, "Iwas lucky to have one of the bestcoaches I ever played for just downthe hall."


Robert and Charlotte Webb crowned the 2009Olathe Sweet Corn Festival King and QueenBY ELAINE HALE JONESRobert and Charlotte (Sumner) Webb cantrace their roots back to some of the firstsettlers in the Uncompahgre Valley inthe late 1800s.“We like to joke and tell people that Bobwas born and raised in Montrose and Igrew up in the Delta (Pea Green) area, sowe comprised and settled halfway inbetween at Olathe,” Charlotte said with alaugh.The couple will represent the Town ofOlathe as “King and Queen” of the 2009Olathe Sweet Corn Festival. It’s an honorthey believe in sharing as a family.Webb Dairy was started by the couple 48years ago, and most recently expanded toinclude the Rocking W Cheese factory,which opened in June of last year. Thefactory is named “Rocking W” afterRobert and Charlotte’s cattle brand.The Webbs raised their three children,Sonya, Caryn and Jim, on the 80-acrefarm and dairy located two miles west ofOlathe. Son, Jim oversees the dairy and

cheese plant marketing while son-in-law,John Gibson oversees the farming andcheese factory. They are co-owners alongwith Bob and Charlotte. Other familymembers, including the couple’s grand-children, also take an active part in thefamily operation.“We can boast six generations in agricul-ture in the Uncompahgre Valley,”Charlotte stated. The Webbs are excitedabout the new cheese business ventureand are hopeful that the value-addedproducts will enable them to remain inagriculture in the valley for another sixgenerations.Currently, Webb’s dairy farm milks about450 cows, three times a day. All of thefeed for the cows is grown by the family,insuring the highest quality of nutritionfor the dairy cows involved in the produc-tion of milk for the company’s line of“artisan” or hand-crafted cheese. Thetrend for these types of products contin-ues to grow as consumers want to knowwhere their food originates and help sup-

port the local economy.The cheese store and cheese factory areopen to the public Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.to 6 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.The front of the factory is blocked offand designated as a retail shop wherecustomers can buy Rocking W Cheeseproducts. Factory visitors can view allactivity through a large picture window.

The cheese is also available in local CityMarket stores.“Our goal has been to develop a businessthat our entire family can be part of,”Charlotte said.From Rocking W Cheese to “OlatheSweet” sweet corn, the Webbs are proudto be part of the “most important busi-ness in the world—agriculture.”

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GENERAL RULESDOS:• LAWN CHAIRS • DESIRE TO EAT “OLATHE SWEET” SWEET CORN • SMILES• PATIENCE• UMBRELLAS

DON’TS:• NO PETS ARE ALLOWED ANYWHERE ON FESTIVAL GROUNDS• NO COOLERS• NO VIDEO CAMERAS OR RECORDING DEVICES DURING CONCERT• NO LASER POINTERS• NO FOOD OR DRINKS ARE TO BE BROUGHT INTO FESTIVAL GROUNDS• NO SQUIRT GUNS OR WATER BALLOONS

SURVIVAL GUIDEThe following are recommendations for making your day at the Corn Festival as enjoyable as possible: • Drink plenty of fluids. The day can be very hot. Most food vendors sell

drinks. Two Pepsi Pavilions are conveniently located on the grounds.Free water stations are located throughout the festival; see vendorbooth guide for locations.

• Apply sun screen. You can get a nasty sunburn, even on a cloudy day.• The First Aid Station is located on Tier 2 at the Headquarters booth.

If you require medical attention go to the Headquarters Booth forassistance.

• Patience and kindness will be rewarded.


Friday July 313:00 PM Olathe Chamber of Commerce

Classic Car ShowSponsored by the Olathe Chamber of Commerce– Main Street Olathe

7:00 “Show Off Your Power” BurnoutSponsored by the Town of OlatheNorth Hersum Avenue – Downtown Olathe

8:30 Olathe Chamber of Commerce Street DanceSponsored by the Olathe Chamber of CommerceMain Street Olathe – Featuring Minor Adjustment

Saturday August 17:00 AM Dream Catchers 5K Run

– OMS Parking LotBank of Colorado Pancake BreakfastBank Parking Lot – 500 Hwy. 50 Business LoopParade Line-up Begins – In Front of OHS

9:00 Parade – Downtown OlatheFestival Gates Open“Olathe Sweet” Sweet CornServing BeginsWestern Slope Karaoke Championship– Pavilion west side of Festival Grounds

10:30-11:30 Minor Adjustment11:45-12:30 Tony Rosario with Trutone and

the Pour Boyz

12:45-2:00 My Brothers and I Band2:15-3:00 Men’s and Women’s Corn Eating Contest

– Main Stage3:00-5:00 Colgate Country Music Showdown5:00-5:30 Karaoke Finals5:30-7:00 Stage Dark6:45 Reserved Seating Opens 7:00-7:15 Opening Ceremonies

Emcees – Bill Sale & Wayne BlairNational Anthem – Mary Ann RathburnWelcome – Mayor of Olathe, Perk PerkinsMontrose County Fair Grand Champions

7:15-7:30 Clint Black Signed Guitar Auction7:30-8:30 The David Starr Band9:00 “Olathe Sweet” Sweet Corn Serving Ends

2009 Olathe Sweet Corn Festival

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The fine people at Bank of Coloradolike to do something fun to helpkick off the Olathe Sweet Corn Fes-tival. Since everyone loves pan-cakes and needs a hearty breakfastto prepare them for a long day ofcelebrating, the bank holds a FREEpancake breakfast early in themorning on festival day. They fireup the griddle at 7:00 a.m. and feed1,000 or more people ham, pan-cakes, beverages, and all thetrimmings.

The bank provides the foodand the staff of the bank andtheir families all pitch in anddo the cooking and serving.And how often do you getserved pancakes flipped by abanker? Bank of Colorado Presi-

dent Mark Harmon wants to leteveryone know they are welcome,and that breakfast will be served uppiping hot in the bank parking lot.If you’re heading to the festival pa-rade and want to jump start yourday with fine, free food served bysmiling people, join the crowd at theBank of Colorado.

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The 2009 featured sponsor of the18th annual Olathe Sweet Corn Festi-val is The Montrose Visitors andConvention/Tourism Bureau.Led by executive Jenni Sopsic, theMontrose-based agency will beshowing thirty-second “spots” throughout Saturday’s festi-val regarding its ‘Look Deeper’ cam-paign. ‘Look Deeper’ comes from theBlack Canyon of the National Park,a local favorite and destination fortourists. The Visitors andConvention Bureau has built a cam-paign around the local attractions ofthe Park and other interests for visi-tors – hiking, golf, fishing, sailing orjust sitting on one of our mountainslopes.

“We’ve been partnering with themfor eight or nine years,” said Bobbi

Sale, the director of the Festival andone of its founders. “We believe hav-ing them on board as this year’s fea-tured sponsor is a natural becausewe attract so many people from outof town here.”

In addition to day long activitieswhich features booths, exhibits, livemusic, food and all of the OlatheSweet Corn an attendee can eat,Clint Black, one of the best countryand western singers around will bethe featured performer Saturdaynight. Also on board will be top ama-teur talent from the Colgate CountryShowdown, winners from Utah,Wyoming and Colorado.Enjoy the sights and sounds ofOlathe – be tourist! Thanks to theMontrose Visitors andConvention/Tourism Bureau.


Once upon a time…Folks who will be enjoying the 2009

Olathe Sweet Corn Festival, presented byAlpine Bank, can thank the visionarythinking of two great guys. LongtimeOlathans John Harold, owner of TuxedoCorn Company, had the idea of having acorn festival, and then Mayor Bill Saletook that idea and made it a reality. Bothmen are still major players in the OlatheSweet Corn Festival, as well as huge sup-porters of the community they have lovedand lived in for so long.

Eighteen years ago, Harold learnedfrom his sister in Orlando of a very suc-cessful festival held in Zellwood, FL thatcelebrated sweet corn. The flavor and suc-culence of Tuxedo Corn’s “Olathe Sweet”variety was known locally, but Haroldthought that folks from farther awaymight enjoy it as well. In addition, thehope for the festival was for it to give theresidents of Olathe an opportunity to cel-ebrate this new crop and to raise moneyfor local non-profit organizations whocould use the festival as a vehicle to raisefunds for a variety of causes.

Cathy Clay was working as a graduatestudent intern at the Olathe Town Hall.Harold funded a trip for her to Zellwood,where she shadowed the organizers of the

event for two days, marveling at the huge,100 acre site, complete with RV parking.There were all kinds of arts and crafts ex-hibits, ongoing entertainment, and ofcourse, all the sweet corn you could eat.Organizers had determined that the aver-age attendee would eat 5 ears. Since 20,000attendees were expected, that meant theyneeded a big pot to cook the corn. Theyfound a huge one, dubbed Big Bertha, thatcould cook several thousand ears.

Clay returned home with a basic blue-print for an Olathe corn festival. Sale, a“can do” type of guy, felt that the towncould pull it off. He rolled up his sleevesand jumped in, committing a smallamount of town funding and rounding upall the helpers he could find. Organizersand volunteers were short on money, butlong on enthusiasm and innovation. Thehigh school football field was the desig-nated place and since there was no BigBertha, volunteers were enlisted to cleanand cook the donated sweet corn. ThePublic Works guys dug a pit and cookedmeat in it all night long, saying a prayerthat it would come out not too rare andnot too overdone. (It turned out perfectly).There was no money to pay entertainers,so instead a Battle of the Bands was held,

with cash prizes.It rained in the afternoon, but people

came anyway. In fact, they kept comingand coming and coming. Festival organiz-ers had hoped that somebody would comeand with huge, small town optimism,planned for about 250. They were stunnedto see more than 800 happy, hungry festi-val goers pouring through the gates andeating and drinking everything in sight.Thanks to the many volunteers, MayorSale and the Olathe Town Council, and toJohn Harold, a tradition was born thatwould put the town of Olathe on the map.

Now it’s time to celebrate the 18thOlathe Sweet Corn Festival, presented byAlpine Bank. The event has grown to en-compass a classic car show, burnout,

street dance, pancake breakfast and pa-rade, and more than 200 vendors, many ofwhom are local non-profit groups that usethe festival as a fund raising opportunity.There is plenty of great entertainment,fabulous fireworks, and of course, lots of“Olathe Sweet” Sweet Corn, boiled orroasted, picked fresh that very morningin a field just down the road. Have asmuch as you like; we’ve got plenty. Wearold clothes, in case the butter tricklesfrom your hand down your elbow and on-to your shirt. Don’t forget your hat andsunscreen and drink lots of water and icecold Pepsi. Have fun all day and hoot andholler and enjoy Clint Black in concertthat night, followed by a fabulous fire-works show. We’ll be expecting you.

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The Olathe Sweet Corn Festival is a very large event put on by a verysmall community. Thanks to the generosity of local businesses, the festivalcontinues to be an affordable day and night filled with great food, fun andentertainment. The Olathe Special Events Advisory Board would like tothank all of the Partners for the 2009 event for their generous support. Wecouldn’t do it without you.

One of the dreams for the Olathe Sweet Corn Festival from the verybeginning was for it to serve as a vehicle for non-profit organizations toraise funds for a variety of causes. That dream has definitely come true,with earnings of more than $55,000 in 2008.

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Abbott and Costello. Martin and Lewis.Lucy and Ethel. Mutt and Jeff. Bill andWayne. Who? That would be Bill Sale andWayne Blair, longtime Olathe residentsand stalwarts of the Olathe Sweet CornFestival since its inception. Bill has em-ceed the event since it started and Waynejoined him onstage a few years later, de-scribing his breakout performance as bothterrible and terrifying. The men share aclose bond and have worked together foryears, not only on this event but also inOlathe town government, (both haveserved as mayor), on the Special EventsBoard, and on other community projects aswell. They are passionate about the festivaland what it means to their community andmore than willing to do a lot of the heavylifting necessary to make it a success.

Both men describe themselves as origi-nally very shy and introverted. Certainlyworking onstage in front of thousands ofpeople was never part of either man’s ca-reer plans. Heck, most folks considerspeaking in front of any group to be a fatealmost worse than death. But they havegrown into the job and each year at the fes-tival there they are again, doing the play byplay for the corn eating contest and hold-ing forth for the entire day and night

telling jokes, making introductions andsmall talk, thanking lots of people, and fill-ing a lot of airtime.

Like all dynamic duos, Bill and Waynehave a camaraderie that is readily appar-ent to the most casual observer. They seemalmost able to finish each other’s sentencesand to know what the other is thinking.What was once a necessary, nerve wrack-ing ordeal is now a great, fun day, howeverchaotic it might be. Sharing the stage andthe challenge with someone you know youcan count on and whose talents you admiremakes all the difference in the world.

Actually, the work the men do onstage isonly a small part of what they do for thefestival. The other 90 percent is unseen bythe audience and includes countless hoursof effort. They have done everything frombuilding the very first stage for a band toperform on years ago, to helping set up andtear down after the event. Bill, self-de-scribed as the more excitable of the two,manages all of the technical support forthe stage and everything on it. Each year,the ink is barely dry on the headliner’s con-tract when he starts working with man-agers and road crews to arrange the multi-tude of technical and other requirementsneeded. Not surprisingly, the more famous

the performer, the longer the list.Wayne, otherwise known as Mr.

Cool and Calm, is in charge ofpersonnel. He makes sure thatthe right acts are in the rightplace when they are supposed tobe and that they get paid prompt-ly. While it might appear to theaudience that everything is run-ning like clockwork, there are al-ways unique and challengingproblems that arise, such as get-ting an overly enthusiastic per-former who has gone well pasttheir allotted time slot off of thestage so that the next act can be-gin. Or perhaps the headlinershave missed their flight and may be late, or,horror of horrors, may not show up at all;or the weather is not cooperating. Bill andWayne take a deep breath and just dealwith it.

The men have watched the festival growfrom its initial debut, where those involvedjust hoped that somebody would show upand were shocked when more than 800 did.Now it is a well attended, well respectedevent that brings thousands of people toOlathe each year. Wayne says it’s been sortof like watching one of your children grow

up and Bill adds that the opportunity to in-teract with festival goers over the years hasbeen priceless. Each year during the festi-val, the two men take a moment to look outover the festival grounds filled with thou-sands of people having a great time. Theytake great pride in knowing that they havecontributed to making the experience thebest it can be. The Bill and Wayne Show—two best buddies having a great time shar-ing what they think is the greatest place inthe world with thousands of new foundfriends. Don’t miss it.

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If you love cars and can rememberexactly what you were driving theday you turned 16, the place to be isthe Classic Car Show on Friday, July31st in downtown Olathe. Presentedby the Olathe Chamber of Com-merce, it’s a cool way to spend a Fri-day night and all of the events arefree to spectators.

Classic Car ShowCars displayed on Olathe’s Main

Street from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.Automobile entry fee/ Trophies

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Burn Out7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.Downtown OlatheWatch or participate as all

makes, models and years of carsshow just how much rubber they

can leave on the street. Presented bythe Town of Olathe.

Free Street Dance8:30 p.m.Dance to the live music of “Minor

Adjustments. Presented by theOlathe Chamber of Commerce.

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storms, Delta-Montrose ElectricAssociation strives to always keep thepower on for all of its residential andbusiness members. It is also a firmbeliever in supporting the communitiesit serves. They were there hooking upthe power for the very first Olathe SweetCorn Festival and have been there since.

This year DMEA is the corporate spon-sor of one of the most popular traditionsat the festival, the fireworks show, put onimmediately following the evening con-

cert. Everyone enjoys it and out of townattendees often say it is one of the bestdisplays they have seen and are sur-prised to see an extravagant show offirepower in such a small town.

DMEA welcomes all festival attendeesand invites them to sit back and enjoy afun-filled day and great evening concert.They light up our lives every day andnight and are proud to be able to helplight up the sky with the annual OlatheSweet Corn Festival FantasticFireworks.

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