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Media Releases (2008)

2008 Septemberfest Gears Up for Fun

Sept. 5, 2008

The popular autumn festival boasts a cornucopia of vendors, activities, exhibits and entertainment, including new events like Dakota County's Got Talent and Scholarship in a Haystack.

Taking place on the spacious and beautiful grounds of Dakota County Technical College's Rosemount campus, 2008 Septemberfest is a classic weekend community festival destined to attract thousands of visitors from the southern suburbs of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Highlighted by new events like Dakota's County's Got Talent, a talent show with an array of dazzling acts, and Scholarship in a Haystack, where DCTC students hunt for $500 scholarship medallions in a towering mound of fresh-cut hay, 2008 Septemberfest also features a host of confirmed crowd-pleasers:

Vintage car and motorcycle shows
Baseball clinic featuring former Minnesota Twin Al Newman
Farmer's market
A.J. and Molly Rhoads NASCAR display
Tethered hot-air balloon rides (weather permitting)
Stagecoach Express (racing semis)
Dr. Bubbles (bubble making experiments for kids)
The Kite Professor (hands-on kite making for everyone)
More than 20 retail vendors
DCTC program demonstrations

Business & Information: computer FAQ booth
Concrete and Masonry: take-home cement handprints
Electrical Lineworker: pole climbing demos
VCOM: caricatures; photo with life-size presidential candidate cutouts
Transportation: timed engine assembly; engine running with no oil
Wood Finishing: color matching
Nanoscience Technology: experiments
Health & Human Services: Health and Wellness Fair
Child Development: children's games
Dental Assistant: dental hygiene for children
TRiO: ladder golf
Customized Training: train and manufacturing models
General Education: trivia games
Student Services: hourly tours of the college

Live entertainment
- The Teddy Bear Band
- The Resistors
- Brenda's School of Dance
- Lost Cat Stanley
- Ray Pascoe
- Harold Torrence
- Apple Valley Mobile Puppet Theater

More than 50 arts and crafts vendors, including but not limited to:
- jewelry
- butterfly baths
- rugs
- international clothing
- stained glass
- jeweled glassware
- airbrush tattoos
- fishing rods
- kids toys
- hand-painted Toddler babies from Apple Valley Dollworks

Oodles of food and beverages, including but not limited to:
- Cat in the Hat giving out free Animal Crackers (sponsored by Cub Foods)
- Kemps "Moo" Mobile milk (sponsored by Cub Foods)
- 40¢ corn on the cob (sponsored by Cub Foods)
- foot-long corndogs
- cotton candy
- BBQ chicken & pork
- ice cream
- onion rings
- Austin dogs
- cheese curds
- Pronto Pups
- lemonade