Bob Ward, President


Bob Ward, BARC President
Bob Ward, President

Favorite BARC Event: All of the events are great, but some of the best are: Scot­tish First Foot­ing, Fright Night’s Haunted House, Gospel Sing, being Santa Claus (Main Street), and Harry Pot­ter Night (Main Street). I love vol­un­teer­ing and cre­at­ing new events so it is always fun and sat­is­fy­ing after a suc­cess­ful event.

Favorite BARC Moment: The first Scot­tish First Foot­ing was unbe­liev­able, because in the begin­ning there were only 5 peo­ple at the event and we started to won­der if any­one else would show up. How­ever, when the bag­pipes started to play peo­ple came from every­where to join the event. We ended up hav­ing 88 peo­ple there to receive the bless­ing for the New Year and it keeps grow­ing every year.

I love Fright Night: A Walk On The Dark Side because I love to chase and scary peo­ple. It is always chal­leng­ing to think of new ways to scary peo­ple and new scenes to create.

At In The Park, I enjoyed watch­ing the chil­dren scram­ble for candy dur­ing the Candy Drop. The Candy Drop involved a huge helium bal­loon fly­ing in the air filled with can­dle and good­ies for the chil­dren to col­lect once the bal­loon was popped.

The Gospel Sings are always a plea­sure to watch and hear, because of the beau­ti­ful singing by the performers.

The For­est of Need­wood Race in 2007 was quiet a won­drous event, because we con­sid­ered can­celling the race because we had just received the biggest amount of snow­fall of the win­ter. We didn’t think the run­ners would want to par­tic­i­pate because of the snowy, chilly, and windy con­di­tions, but they did! It was amaz­ing to see such a large group of ded­i­cated runners.