Arts & Entertainment
Medford Community Day Sunday, Sept. 21
The event, in honor of Wally Kountze and Ben Averbrook, will run from 1-4:30 p.m. behind Andrews Middle School.

Medford Community Day is Sunday, Sept. 21.
The event will run from 1-4:30 p.m. behind Andrews Middle School.
Here is what to expect:
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- Over 100 vendor tables
- National Flag Display, 10 huge flags carried in procession (photo above of the Millennium Celebration in Medford Square in 2000)
- Kiddie rides, pony rides, snow cones, crafts, bake sales and spin art
- βPassportβ Trip to Ireland, Haiti, Brazil, Morocco, India, Tibet, Japan and Italy
- Radio Disney, Goulding School of Irish Dance, All Hands Drumming, New Life Baptist Brazilian Church, Steel Drum Band, the MHS Alumni Band
- Make your own scarecrow, decorate your own pumpkin
- Rides on a tethered hot air balloon, courtesy of ReMax Andrew Realty
- βTouch a Truckβ vehicles, the Batmobile, the L.L. Bean Bootmobile, the Fish Car, Burger Diveβs Hamburger Car, Medford Police & Fire vehicles, MedFlight and Armstrong Ambulance vehicles, the Middlesex Sheriffβs SWAT vehicle and DPW trucks
- Medford Police K9 demonstration
- Visits from the Boston Red Soxβ Wally the Green Monster, the Boston Bruinsβ Blades, Tuft Universityβs Jumbo, Big League Brian-the-Stilt-Walker Captain America, Spiderman and Disneyβs Frozen Princesses Elsa and Anna
- Mini sports clinics, street hockey clinic, three-legged races, potato-sack races, dunk tank, water taxi rides at canoe launch near McGlynn School
- The 2nd Annual 5K Doggie Fun Run & Walk at 10 a.m.
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