A Fun Night at the Park
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Sherry and Candy, who provided face painting, painted a number of attendees' faces and arms..
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Once Stonez Rolling Video Games arrived, the kids attentively played video games such as Portal and Minecraft..
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These children carefully threw and caught the water balloons without getting splashed with water. .
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Families and children made themselves comfortable while munching on some popcorn before The Lego Movie began. .
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The Movie in the Park event was hosted by the Grand Terrace Lions Club. Here a few Lions are pictured. From left: ---, Penny Radtke, and Denis Kidd..
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Here a local family celebrates with a healthy snack, courtesy of the Grand Terrace Woman's Club..
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Grand Terrace High School students from the Leos club smile for the camera..
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Young Grand Terrace High School students from the Leos club celebrating at the event..
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Free popcorn and water was provided by the Grand Terrace Lions Club, the event's host. Here a young attendee stands with Lions Jim and Darcy McNaboe..
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Young booth workers soaking up the sun with their four-legged friend..
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Some of Grand Terrace's finest smiling with colorful faces after taking a trip to the face painting booth..
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Ut oh! At least you're cool!.
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The definition of community..
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The Nessel clan enjoying pizza during The Lego Movie..
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It's pink on pink for this little Grand Terrace local..
By Veronica Soto
Community Writer
09/09/2014 at 09:23 AM
On Saturday, Sept. 6 the Grand Terrace Lions Club held the third annual free Movie in the Park event at Richard Rollins Park, featuring The Lego Movie.
The event has been around for years but this is the third year in a row the Grand Terrace Lions have hosted. The Lions began providing the Movie in the park in 2012 after the City was unable to continue.
This year's chairpersons were Lions Wayne Whipple and Penny Radtke.
The event is the one time each year that families can come out for the park screening. Parents brought their children where they were able to enjoy various forms of entertainment and food options before the movie started.
Sherry and Candy of Lollipop provided face painting to a number of attendees' faces and arms.
In the parking lot, courtesy of the Grand Terrace Lions Club, Stonez Rolling Video Games entertained kids as they ran to the game trailer to play some of their favorite video games and received free glow sticks.
A water balloon toss and potato sack race kept the community on their toes as they all fought for the win.
As the movie's start time neared, popcorn, water and glow sticks were dispersed throughout the crowd.
Before the movie started, attendees enjoyed the many free and fun activities and giveaways for children and adults to enjoy.
The Grand Terrace Woman's Club provided complimentary oranges and raffled two movie baskets containing snacks and $10 movie certificates.
The GTHS Leo Club facilitated sack races and water balloon tosses for the kids.
The Foundation of Grand Terrace provided free bags of popcorn.
The Grand Terrace Chamber of Commerce distributed free water.
Boy Scout Troop 40 helped us with clean up.
"The Grand Terrace Lions Club enjoys providing this free event as another way of giving back to our great community!," said Lion Penny Radtke. "We had approximately 300 in attendance this year and are planning on providing this event again next year in August."
