Wounded Warrior Way returns this year and is sponsored by Combat Park and Wounded Warrior Alabama. A stage set up on Noble between 9th and 10th street will offer live music from noon until 7 p.m.ġ1:30 a.m. The Kid Zone will be located along 10th Street. Sunny King Kid Zone, which will offer free inflatables, Big Sam the Balloon Man, Whit'z Kidz, facepainting and more. The festival will include the following attractions: I feel pretty confident it's not going to be a complete rainout," he said. "There is a fair amount of uncertainty for rainfall on Saturday, it does look warm though. "It looks a little iffy right now, this week is going to be pretty dry but we do have a system approaching from the west towards the weekend and right now for Anniston we have a 30 percent chance of showers and storms on Saturday with a high around 82," Darden said Monday morning.ĭarden said that some of the models are keeping the rain to the west while others predict a rain event for Saturday. There is a 30 percent chance of rain forecast for Saturday, said Chris Darden, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Calera. The awards for the criterium will begin at 7:30 p.m. and the last race, the Men Pro 1 races is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. The criterium begins with amateur races at 9 a.m. The Noble Street Festival hours are from 11 a.m. It features sodded green space, a roofed pavilion, a modest stage and freshly planted trees. The new park at the northwest corner of 11th and Noble will be completed in time for the festival and will serve as the VIP area, Hodges said. To view the exact times of each criterium race, visit Ĭullinane said the criterium will also be livestreamed locally on Channel 24. The criterium will be live-streamed at and. The prize purse for the criterium is $10,000 each for both men's and women's races, she said. "This year we're refocusing and just doing the one, we're on a different date also, May 6, that's our first true spring event, we've always actually been early April," she said. In recent years a Sunday criterium was held in Piedmont, but that has been eliminated this year, she said. In the past, when the final race ended the festival vendors were already packing up to go home.Ĭullinane said one notable change is to the criterium weekend itself. "When the criterium is over the festival ends, we've not had that before so we've married up those two schedules to help spectators and racers alike, not have to be in the dark," Cullinane said. Race director Marilyn Cullinane said the schedule of all the criterium races has been moved up an hour to match up with the festival itself. If you're reading this, we hope you'll be one of the many," Eden said Monday. "We are anticipating we will see more visitors downtown for Noble Street Festival than ever before. Karla Eden, Main Street Anniston director and festival director, said she is excited to see the festival's continued growth over the last few years. Hodges said that the festival typically attracts 10,000 people to downtown Anniston.
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