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Buffalo Days set for weekend

By Lori EhdeLuverne’s annual Buffalo Days celebration is this weekend, and Chamber Director Dave Smith said everything is ready.He said the weekend will offer all the classic Buffalo Days events, with a few improvements."This year for Arts in the Park we made a real concerted effort to make sure the crafts there are hand-made," Smith said.He said in the past few years, more and more vendors were bringing commercially-produced crafts for resale."Some were doing a bit of both, commercial and hand-made crafts," he said. "These were flea-market type things, and we wanted to get away from that. This year everything is hand-made."As a result, 45 new vendors will make an appearance at Arts in the Park, and they’re offering new and unique arts and crafts, Smith said.There are a total of 103 booth spaces spoken for at the event.Also new in the park, Smith said, will be the food vendor setup. Prompted by growing evergreens crowding out booth space, the food booth setup this year will be a horse-shoe shape with picnic tables in the middle.Instead of the food vendors lining the northern edge of the park, they’ll start at the park entrance, line up to the east, and then circle south at the ball diamond and then return to the west.Arts in the Park opens at 10 a.m. and features all-day activities, including the world-renowned Buffalo Chip Throwing Contest, which starts at 2 p.m.The Buffalo Days Parade on Main Street also starts at 10 a.m.

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