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2008 Septemberfest Gears Up for Fun
Sept. 5, 2008
The popular autumn festival boasts a cornucopia of vendors, activities, exhibits and entertainment, including new events like Dakota County's Got Talent and Scholarship in a Haystack.
Taking place on the spacious and beautiful grounds of Dakota County Technical College's Rosemount campus, 2008 Septemberfest is a classic weekend community festival destined to attract thousands of visitors from the southern suburbs of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Highlighted by new events like Dakota's County's Got Talent, a talent show with an array of dazzling acts, and Scholarship in a Haystack, where DCTC students hunt for $500 scholarship medallions in a towering mound of fresh-cut hay, 2008 Septemberfest also features a host of confirmed crowd-pleasers:
- Vintage car and motorcycle shows
- Baseball clinic featuring former Minnesota Twin Al Newman
- Farmer's market
- A.J. and Molly Rhoads NASCAR display
- Tethered hot-air balloon rides (weather permitting)
- Stagecoach Express (racing semis)
- Dr. Bubbles (bubble making experiments for kids)
- The Kite Professor (hands-on kite making for everyone)
- More than 20 retail vendors
- DCTC program demonstrations
- Business & Information: computer FAQ booth
- Concrete & Masonry: take-home cement handprints
- Electrical Lineworker: pole climbing demos
- VCOM: caricatures; photo with life-size presidential candidate cutouts
- Transportation: timed engine assembly; engine running with no oil
- Wood Finishing: color matching
- Nanoscience Technology: experiments
- Health & Human Services: Health and Wellness Fair
- Child Development: children's games
- Dental Assistant: dental hygiene for children
- TRiO: ladder golf
- Customized Training: train and manufacturing models
- General Education: trivia games
- Student Services: hourly tours of the college
- Live entertainment
- The Teddy Bear Band
- The Resistors
- Brenda's School of Dance
- Lost Cat Stanley
- Ray Pascoe
- Harold Torrence
- Apple Valley Mobile Puppet Theater
- More than 50 arts and crafts vendors, including but not limited to:
- jewelry
- butterfly baths
- rugs
- international clothing
- stained glass
- jeweled glassware
- airbrush tattoos
- fishing rods
- kids toys
- hand-painted Toddler babies from Apple Valley Dollworks
- Oodles of food and beverages, including but not limited to:
- Cat in the Hat giving out free Animal Crackers (sponsored by Cub Foods)
- Kemps "Moo" Mobile milk (sponsored by Cub Foods)
- 40¢ corn on the cob (sponsored by Cub Foods)
- foot-long corndogs
- cotton candy
- BBQ chicken & pork
- ice cream
- onion rings
- Austin dogs
- cheese curds
- Pronto Pups
- lemonade
Scholarship in a Haystack
Offering Free Parking & Free Admission at a location only minutes away from the Twin Cities and surrounding suburbs, 2008 Septemberfest is sponsored by all Dakota County Chambers of Commerce as well as by Anchor Bank, Bituminous Roadways, Cub Foods, UPS, SKB Environmental, SPIRE Federal Credit Union, Hidden Greens Golf Course, KoolKrafts, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Lancet Software, Fairview, Dunn Bros Coffee, Trophies Plus and Emerald Greens Golf Course.
2008 Septemberfest
A DCTC Community Event
Dakota County Technical College
1300 145th Street East (County Road 42)
Rosemount, MN 55068-2999
- Saturday, Sept. 13
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Sunday, Sept. 14
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Free Parking & Free Admission
