Winterfest highlights cold-weather activities
Winterfest made a triumphant return to Moraine State Park this weekend.
After a two-year hiatus, the Moraine Preservation Fund brought back its wintry outdoors celebration to pleasant results Saturday. The event went through some attendance difficulties before its hiatus, the fund's vice president Cassandra Dixon explained, but proper winter weather seemed to usher back in good times Saturday. The park's rangers estimated that 1,105 people attended the event.
Winterfest wasn't a fund-raising event, but rather the Moraine Preservation Fund holds it in hopes of opening locals' eyes to the cold-weather activities possible at Moraine. Vendors and groups put together about 20 stops for visitors to check out at the festival. Those stops highlighted activities such as trail running, ice fishing and cross-country skiing.
This is an excerpt from a story that appears in Monday's Butler Eagle.
