A racer savors her success.
This Sunday, Elmhurst Avenue will close to traffic so the Frontier Days crowd can race, pull and carry for fun and cash prizes.
They almost make it look easy. Elmhurst’s trees provide shade for the spectators. Vendors sell cold drinks.
The tractor pull is from 10 - 11 a.m. Contestants say the hardest part is getting the momentum going.
However, every year, men, women, boys and girls pull thousands of pounds of machinery down Elmhurst.
Her brother counts his winnings.
The weight carry is from 11 a.m. until noon. In this contest, people take turns lugging a pair of concrete blocks down Elmhurst until their muscles give out and they drop the blocks.
For the men, each block weighs about 105 pounds, roughly the heft of a baby elephant.
The female contestants will carry 52-pound weights, each about as heavy as a small bale of hay.
At press time, both the tractor pull and the weight carry still need coordinators and sponsors.
Sparky and his friends at the LVFD will sponsor the annual bike races. They start at noon. Sparky is all about safety.
Each competitor must wear a helmet as they race to the finish line. Part of the fun is checking out the different headgear.
The sponsors separate the racers by age so everyone has a chance to shine, from toddlers on training wheels to more experienced bicyclists that whiz by in the blink of an eye.
The music of Leilani and the Distractions may energize the competitors. The pop/rock/blues band plays their final set of the weekend in the courthouse park from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Misty Moepono-Wood will announce the raffle winners after the bike races at 1 p.m. Frontier Days 2024 ends with a free family swim in the community pool from 4 - 6 p.m.