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.

2010 Posters

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. Exchange a poster for a political ad.






Main Event flyer View










Events for Adults flyer View.









Carfest Bowling flyer  View.








Rockin' the New Year flyer View.










Catch Lucky the Carp View.

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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