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Hardwick Kiwanis Club Spring Festival Parade and SpringFest

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Members of the Hardwick American Legion Post No. 7 family, back (all from left) Suzette Greaves, Tonia Chase, Andrew Menard, Matt Greaves, Ivan Menard and Denis Chase help hold the 15 x 25 foot flag after CCS Constructors workers Macky McLeod and Mike Speer attached it to the CCS crane and raising it above the Lamoille River for Memorial Day.
photo by Vanessa Fournier
Dancers under the moonlit Atkins Field pavilion listen to Cajun music by Pointe Noir at a party after the first Friday Hardwick Farmers Market of the season put on by The Civic Standard.
photo by Paul Fixx

Hardwick American Legion Post No. 7’s Color Guard leads the Hardwick Kiwanis Club Spring Festival parade, with (from left) Stephen Fortman, Marc Cloutier. 1st Vice Commander; Lynne Bessette, Chaplain; Matthew Greaves, Adjutant; Barry Cadorette. In back is Ivan Menard, Sergeant at Arms.
photo by Vanessa Fournier
The Grand Marshal of this year’s Spring Festival Parade is Bernie Lussier, 85, of Craftsbury. He is holding a picture of he and his late wife Linda taken on their 55th anniversary. Riding with him in the back is his great-granddaughter Natalie Allen. Driving them is Betsy Brown.
photo by Vanessa Fournier
The Jeudevine Memorial Library float won first place in this year’s spring festival parade.
photo by Vanessa Fournier
Second prize in the Spring Festival Parade went to the float for Lakeview Early Education Center for preschool age children ages 3 to 5 from Hardwick, Greensboro, Woodbury, Wolcott, Craftsbury, Walden and Albany.
photo by Vanessa Fournier
The Hazen Union band provides its traditional marching and music for the Hardwick Spring Festival parade, May 23.
photo by Vanessa Fournier
The third place float in the Spring Festival Parade was the Honeybee Steel Band which includes (from left) Aro Veno (walking), Lindsey Scott, Josephine Courtney, Liz Courtney and Nevina Felix.
photo by Vanessa Fournier
Spiderman (Trevor Howard) entertains the crowd as he makes his way through the parade Saturday.
photo by Vanessa Fournier
Hope Peets (left) and her great-grandmother Shirley Benway (right) ride in the “Our Loving Family” goat farm in Hyde Park float during Saturday’s Spring Festival Parade.
photo by Vanessa Fournier
The Bread & Puppet Theater from Glover adds political commentary about an upside down world to the Spring Festival Parade in Hardwick.
photo by Vanessa Fournier
Hardwick Fire Department’s 1927 Concord fire engine is only one of two left in existence, and always a regular in the annual Spring Festival Parade.
photo by Vanessa Fournier
The 15 x 25 foot Hardwick American Legion Post No. 7 family flag was hung from the CCS Constructors Crane on Friday over the Lamoille River for Memorial Day.
photo by Vanessa Fournier
David Stevenson (right) of Morrisville barely crosses the finish line ahead of Axel Stancliff (left) during cubmobile races held on Spring Street as part of SpringFest activities.
photo by Vanessa Fournier
The Hardwick Gazette set up a tent in the parking area on Hillside Avenue alongside the American Legion parking lot during the SpringFest Fair, Saturday after the parade, where Walden sixth grader (from left) Azalea L’Esperance, sitting with Editor Paul Fixx and Eric Jonathan, asked visitors civics questions to help her prepare for a Vermont State Civics Bee.
photo by Alli Foster
Norah Connolly of Jay holds Milly, her Puerto Rico “Sato” as they watch the human truck pull Saturday during SpringFest activities.
photo by Vanessa Fournier
The Krazy Kountry Band plays tunes as people listen and dance in the Hardwick American Legion parking lot during SpringFest.
photo by Vanessa Fournier
Hardwick Fire Department volunteers help with the Hardwick Kiwanis Joe Brosseau Duck Dive fundraiser by dropping 550 numbered ducks sold at $5 each from their ladder truck as they were suspended over the American Legion parking lot Saturday. Duck Dive winner Kalvin Barclay, who is less than 2 years old, won $1,375 dollars in the 50-50 raffle that earned the same amount for the Hardwick Kiwanis Club to fund scholarships and the Hardwick Humanitarian Awards, among other things.
photo by Paul Fixx
The first pair of women town moderators for neighboring Vermont towns of Greensboro with Mavis MacNeil (left) and Hardwick with Audrey Grant (right), meet at the SpringFest Fair in Hardwick, Saturday, May 23 outside the American Legion Hall in Hardwick..
photo by Paul Fixx
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Paul Fixx is editor of The Hardwick Gazette and lives in Hardwick.

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