Free concert kicks off Community Wide Reunion

The annual Community Wide Reunion keeps adding classes to this year’s event at Oats Park.

Not only will the Class of 1963 be honored on its 60th reunion, other classes will also gather to reminisce and reacquaint themselves with their classmates. According to Debra Clifford, the city’s executive secretary, the classes that confirmed their attendance are from the 1950s, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1999, 2003 and 2013.

Graduates from, 1973, 1983, 2003 and 2013 are experiencing milestone reunions. The Class of 1993, though, held its reunion in July. What makes this all-community reunion so special, say organizers, is that it welcomes back students, teachers, parents and friends of the Greenwave.

Reunion weekend begins Friday with a free concert at the Fallon Theatre. Music will be provided by Acoustic Alignment and Steven Christie and friends.

Saturday will be an event-packed day beginning with breakfast at the Oats Park Art Center’s Lariat Courtyard. A show and shine car show including antique tractors was a big hit last year and will set up in front of the Oats Park Art Center.

During the day, tours and activities will be conducted in the city and in the county. The tours include the Churchill County Museum, the Old High School, Oats Park Arts Center, the Douglass House, the Old Post Office, Cottage School, Frey Ranch, Fallon Police Department and the Fallon-Churchill Volunteer Fire Department. Mayor Ken Tedford will offer tours of the Fallon City Hall.

Classes will begin arriving at Oats Park later that afternoon, and the Greenwave Hall of Fame will be selling T-shirts and stickers. Clifford said vendors will also sell food and beer and wine, while the classes may bring their own food.

Clifford said organizing the reunion has been a team effort with executive secretary Nicole Dooley, and Candy Dolan from the Fallon Convention Center.

Mayor Ken Tedford will recognize the Class of 63 in a special ceremony sometime late Saturday afternoon.

Blair Crimmins & The Hookers appear at 7 p.m. in a free performance on the Centennial Stage. Crimmins began his current music career in Atlanta with a determination to bring Ragtime and 1920s style Dixieland Jazz to new audiences.