FAIRVIEW PARK, Ohio — Festivals are a lot more than just the funnel cakes and rides what genuinely helps make it excellent is the fingers behind the scenes that support set it jointly.

As the hustle and bustle is underway forward of the 30th once-a-year Fairview Park Summerfest, Mary Manos Mitchem hasn’t stopped.

“Well, I’ve been right here since yesterday at 8 a.m. and I will depart Sunday at about 8 p.m.,” claimed Mitchem, who is a volunteer for the festival.

Mitchem has been 1 of many aiding fingers putting the significant occasion together for much more than 15 several years.

At the pageant, there are additional than 100 distributors, all forms of foods, audio, rides and pleasurable.

But all those that definitely make it worthwhile are volunteers like Mary who never just set in the get the job done but also the enthusiasm.

“My favorite section is just seeing the youngsters when they wander in or the mothers and fathers with their eyes are just so large,” mentioned Manos.

And she really enjoys each and every second of it.

“It’s the motive why we do it, it delivers our neighborhood together. And the minimal children are just so whole of joy that this is in their town,” reported Manos.

So, she’ll keep encouraging put smiles on faces for at least a pair more many years.

Summerfest began Thursday and ends Sunday.

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