A fun-filled event intent on bringing friends, family, and community together for the New Year! Proceeds going to Dropping the Carp Fund and City Park and Recreation Youth Enrichment/Hoffman Hall Activities.

2011 Flyers

Promote Carpfest at your business or school. Place a poster on your refrigerator. Put one in your parked car window. Plaster a poster on your locker. Wipe one on your house window. Float a poster on your boat. Leave a tip of a poster to your wait person.

 




Catch Lucky the Carp View or download pdf file.






Carp Fest Main Schedule download PDF file







 

Hoffman Hall Events - Flyer Download Flyer








Carp Fest Bowling flyer � Download pdf flyer




Coloring Contest  Download PDF Flyer

Meet 'Lucky' the Carp

The first annual Droppin' of the Carp was held in 2002. after two local residents spent the year before in Savannah, Ga.. Where they lowered a giant styrophoam peach. "We decided we could have some sort of New Year's celebration here in the Midwest," Tom Nelson, one of the founders, said. "Since New York took the ball idea, a carp was the next local choice. Being on the river, it had to be a fish." The first year, a three foot carp was named Lucky after learning that Chinese people believe that eating Carp on New Years was lucky. Mike Valley, a local business man and owner of Valley Fish Market said, "Everybody always kisses it for good luck."

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