Published July 19. 2014 09:00AM
Four-year-old Madison Schaeffer of Andreas tries her luck at the ball toss at St. Joseph's Festival in Summit Hill on Friday evening as her grandmother Nancy Neff watches. The festival, initially called the St. Gabe's Festival in honor of St. Gabriel, the patron saint of the Italian people, is celebrating its 80th anniversary. It runs from 5 to 11 p.m. today, and 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday. The St. Gabriel procession, in which the people carry the statue of St. Gabriel through the streets of Summit Hill, will take place at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, followed by the benediction before the opening of the festival. It will conclude with a fireworks display after 10 p.m. Sunday.
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