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Article: Get neighborly at Black Forest event ; Festival features pancake breakfast, parade, auction
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- August 17, 2007
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It's a party in the pines.
The Black Forest Festival, a decades-old event celebrating the
character of this northern El Paso County community, returns
Saturday with music, a parade, an auction, games and food -- lots of
food.
The festival, expected to draw 3,000 to 4,000 people, brings
neighbors together, said Ron Brown, a member of the Black Forest
Community Club, which organizes the event.
"There is a neighborliness out here in the Black Forest that you
don't find very many other places," Brown said.
The day kicks off at 6:30 a.m. with a pancake breakfast at the