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Organizers seek committee blessing to host Smokin' Hot Wing & Music Festival at Freedom Park; request extended park hours for Oct. 3
Summary
Organizers asked the Parks & Recreation committee to allow Freedom Park use for a Smokin' Hot Wing & Music Festival and to support a council request for extended park hours on Oct. 3 (to about 9 p.m.). The event passed the events committee and has police and fire review; organizers described tents, shuttles, ticketing, alcohol licensing and charitable beneficiaries.
Organizers of the Smokin' Hot Wing & Music Festival asked the Parks & Recreation committee to bless a proposal to hold the event at Freedom Park and to support a request to extend park hours on Oct. 3 to about 9 p.m.
Doucette Banton, the event organizer, told the committee that the proposal had already gone through the events and commemoration committee and that both the police chief and the deputy chief reviewed logistics and gave "thumbs up" during that review. Banton presented a scaled site map produced with city assistance showing an arrangement of 10-by-10 contestant tents spaced about 10 feet apart; she…
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