Rockin’ the festival, Newberg style

Thousands descend on Memorial Park, Renne Field and the streets of the parade route to attend the town’s annual summer rite

  • By: Laurent Bonczijk 
  • Published: 7/31/2012 1:51:10 PM
Photo By: Gary AllenAlthough the route was reversed from years past, thousands of onlookers lined south Newberg streets Saturday for the grand parade (left).
   As if on cue to celebrate the kind, cheerful hearts of the dozens of volunteers who make Newberg’s annual Old Fashioned Festival the recurring occasion to celebrate that it is, Friday’s morose morning weather cleared out during the volunteer luncheon to shower bright sunlight on festivalgoers by early afternoon.



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