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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Dayton’s Ohio WineFest canceled for this year, may be resurrected in 2010
The Ohio wine festival that has been held at the National City 2nd Street Market annually for the last six years — and which had been postponed this spring — has now been canceled altogether for this year, and its prospect of being resurrected for 2010 are uncertain.
“There won’t be a festival this year,” said Val Hunt, spokeswoman for Five River MetroParks that oversees the Second Street market. “These events cost money, and we had difficulty finding sponsors. It’s hard in this climate to pull an event like this together.”
MetroParks and Ohio Wine Producers Association (OWPA) officials are exploring the possibility of bringing back the festival in 2010, but there are no concrete plans yet in place, festival organizers said.
When MetroParks officials first announced the postponement in March of the festival that had been scheduled for June, they said they were “actively planning” for a fall 2009 festival instead. But several winemakers said privately at the time that a fall festival could conflict with harvest and would likely reduce wineries’ participation.
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