MORRISON, Ill. —
Paint the Town co-chairwoman Barb Bees couldn’t have asked for a better day than Saturday to paint.
People gathered on a sunny day on Main and Market streets in Morrison. Participants gathered at a registration table to pick up thier paints and headed to their squares.
While people began painting, musicians and entertainers performed in different portions of Main Street. A caricaturist, a magician, a mariachi band and a face painter were just a few of the attractions at the event.
Olivia Daughin, 5, of Morrison, sat in the chair to get her face painted before painting the street. Her family has attended Paint the Town since she was 1.
“It’s just fun,” Jamie Dauphin, Olivia’s mother, said. “It’s great for the kids to get to paint.”
Bees was excited about the 18th Paint the Town. This year the event offered 1,800 squares for the public to paint. Bees said 1,450 squares were pre-registered.
Other people registered on Saturday.
“We don’t want to turn people away. For us that is the worst thing,” Bees said.
Paint the Town saw many returning participants. Bees said many of the same people come every ear. However, she felt the event had a good amount of first-time participants.
The event even had people from Washington D.C. and Kansas.
Nate Parker and his sister, Anna Karvelius, and her son, Parker Karvelius, 4, traveled from Rockford, Ill. to participate in the event for the first time. Parker said a friend from Morrison recommended the event.
He spent his day creating an image of the Wrigley Field sign in his square while his sister and nephew created a baseball in theirs.
“We’ll definitely come back,” Anna Karvelius said. “This will make our new tradition.”
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Kathy Strunk, of Morrison, Ill., paints a window display at Kreative Retails Ltd., 115 E. Main St., during Paint the Town on Saturday in Morrison. Samantha Pidde/Clinton Herald
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Caleb McCoy, 12, of Morrison, Ill., swirls colors in his square at the Paint the Town event Saturday. Samantha Pidde/Clinton Herald
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