PORT HADLOCK — Some 50 lawn mowers revved their motors after a parade with 60 marching units at the 20th annual Hadlock Days celebration Saturday.
The festival continues today, with lawn mower races from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the track on the site of the former A.J. Hill concrete batch plant on Ness Corner Road, and the Hadlock Days Classic Car Show from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday at Ferino’s Pizzeria, 846 Ness Corner Road.
Music will be played at the car show from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Next to the lawn mower race track, more than 30 vendors will sell food, drinks and other items from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. A beer garden has been added this year.
The lawn mower races feature both old-timer and powder puff races. Children race box cars during mower race intermissions.
On Saturday was the first round of lawn mower races, as well as a half-mile parade north along Chimacum Road — starting at Well Road and then turning west on to Ness Corner Road to D Street — and a softball tournament.
Today, the chain-saw-carved “welcome bear” drawing will be at 2 p.m. today, after the lawn mower racing ends and the trophies are presented.
The Hadlock lawn mower racing group will race at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 21 at the Clallam County Fair rodeo arena.
The Super Stock Lawn Mower Association, a Hadlock chapter of the American Racing Mower Association has been formed.
Membership to ARMA qualifies the Hadlock racing group for the low-cost $3 million in liability insurance coverage it needs to put on exhibitions at county fairs.
