Ain’t Nothin’ Gonna Break Our Stride…

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For the first time in 22 years, the weather has caught up with us. But we’re not going to let it slow us down!

Hometown Festival Committee members are working diligently to finalize plans to move everything after the 5k and Parade to Round Hill Elementary School. This includes the Memorial Ceremony, Main and Youth Stage entertainment (yes, including The Reflex at 7 p.m.!), Pie Contest, Cornhole Tournament, Children’s Fair, food vendors and games and arts. Unfortunately we will need to cancel the Downhill Derby for the safety of all involved.

This year’s Hometown Festival involves more than a dozen musical groups and a dozen food vendors, the RHVFDR, the LCSO, the Loudoun County Health Department and Fire Marshall, and numerous community groups. While we can move the location on short notice, we are unable to move the date.

As you can imagine, the Festival Committee members who’ve spent the last four months planning our event are just as disappointed as you are (if not more!) that the sun won’t be shining, but we’re not going to let it break our stride!

We will be posting more details tomorrow as we work through logistics with the school system, the vendors, the entertainers and all our community partners. Please be patient with us — we’re new at this rain thing — and please still plan to come out to RHES after the 5k and Parade and make Saturday the Best (Rainy) Day of the Year in Round Hill!

Here comes the rain again…

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With a drastic change in the forecast expected over the next few days, we thought we’d share our thinking about rain.

1) We need it, badly.
2) But not on Saturday!
3) We have a plan. Here it is:

* 5k Race is ON rain or shine
* Parade is ON rain or shine
* Downhill derby is OFF — if the road is wet enough to make steering/braking unsafe
* Other activities will proceed as scheduled as much as possible, shutting down only what/when necessary and relocating where possible
* In the event of sudden thunderstorms/heavy rain, shelter can be found under the tents in the Town Park, the canopy of the Round Hill Exxon, the bays of the Round Hill Volunteer Fire Department and in the Round Hill Baptist Church.

We do have Round Hill Elementary School reserved as a rain site if the full day looks to be a total washout. We’ve been exceedingly lucky not to have ever (in 22 years) had to move the entire Festival to the school and we very much hope this will not be the first time (knocking wood as I type).

5k and Parade Routes

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The Hometown Festival 5k and Parade are almost here! Please be aware of ROLLING ROAD CLOSURES between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 23, while the 5k runners and parade are traveling their routes.

The race starts and ends at Round Hill Elementary School, running down Evening Star Drive, Woodgrove Road/Main Street, and through the Brentwood Springs neighborhood.

The parade lineup begins at 9 a.m. on the west side of Evening Star Drive. In order to avoid runners along the 5k route, we ask parade participants to arrive using Evening Star Drive to Greenwood Commons to Main Street/Woodgrove Road (the route marked A to B on the map) in order to NOT PASS Round Hill Elementary School. Early arrivals may be stopped and held along Greenwood Commons or Main Street as runners at the end of the race complete the course.

Beginning at 10 a.m., the parade will travel from Evening Star Drive heading south and then east through Greenwood Commons and Hillwood Estates to Main Street and then south to the Town Park on East Loudoun Street.

Sign Me Up!

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The Hometown Festival wouldn’t be a success if no one came, so the most important thing anyone can do is take part! If you do, we hope you will agree that the Round Hill Hometown Festival is truly the best day of the year in Round Hill!