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Harrisburg schedules 8th annual Ice and Fire Festival March 1 with 68 ice sculptures and downtown street fair
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Harrisburg will hold its eighth annual M&T Bank Ice and Fire Festival on Saturday, March 1, with 68 ice sculptures across the city, a downtown street festival on Second Street from Market to Pine, a 30-foot ice slide and community programming intended to boost tourism and local business activity.
Harrisburg will host its eighth annual M&T Bank Ice and Fire Festival on Saturday, March 1, with 68 ice sculptures displayed across neighborhoods including Downtown, Midtown, City Island, Italian Lake, Reservoir Park and Chapel, city officials said.
Event organizers said the downtown street festival will run along Second Street from Market to Pine from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., with sculptures illuminated after 5 p.m., live entertainment, an iceless skating rink, a 30-foot ice slide and a scavenger hunt using QR codes.
The festival is intended to draw visitors and highlight local businesses. "Visit Hershey and Harrisburg's mission is to drive economic growth through tourism and to boost awareness of events and experience among our neighbors here in the city and, of course, across Dauphin County," said Lisonbee Warball, director of communications and content at Visit Hershey and Harrisburg.
City communications director Michelle Moyer said a full event…
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