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Clay Plant asks to be added as official Covered Bridge Festival site; commissioners ask for selection criteria
Summary
Courtney Cook of Clay Plant requested the pottery studio be designated the tenth official location for the Parke County Covered Bridge Festival; commissioners said official sites have historically been towns and asked staff to develop criteria for non-town locations.
Courtney Cook, representing Clay Plant pottery in Bloomingdale, asked the Parke County Board of Commissioners on Feb. 16 to designate Clay Plant as an official Parke County Covered Bridge Festival location, which would make it the festival’s tenth official site.
Cook said Clay Plant has participated in the festival for four years and reported growth from 15 to 30 vendors with potential to reach 50 vendors in the near future. Commissioners responded that official festival locations have historically been towns and that the county should create a set of criteria for designating official sites and policies for locations that fall outside incorporated towns.
The board did not make an immediate decision and asked staff to consider how to handle requests from locations outside town boundaries and to return with proposed criteria.
