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Scenes from

Past Earth FestS

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Earth Fest 2025 

April 26th 10a.m. – 2 p.m.

 

Hailey’s first Earth Fest happened 5 years ago - 50 years after the first Earth Day was established as an international day to recognize our amazing earth and recommit to our continued stewardship of the delicate environmental balance of our planet.  Our Earth Day Festival (shortened to “Earth Fest”) continues to grow and change and this year is no exception.

 

A Sneak Peek at this year’s Earth Fest 

Earth Fest 2025 is all about exploring circularity of our material goods and involves all the ordinary and fantastic things we each can do in our daily lives to maintain the Earth as a habitable planet.  The concept of circularity is summed up in this poster and is more often known by the many Re’s it includes: reduce, reuse, refurbish, repair, repurpose, regenerate, rethink, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earth Fest activities

 

The day will begin with our Earth Fest Five K Fun Run

for the whole family

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Registration begins at 9 a.m. and Race begins at the start of all of our Earth Fest Activities - 10:00 a.m.

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Community Trunk Sale / Second Hand Sidewalk Sale

Get a jump start on spring yard sales and enjoy our Circularity Culture

with 15 local sellers all in one place and information tables

from The Gold Mine, The Advocates Attic, and The Barkin’.

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Our Neighbors’ spring cleaning brings great 2nd hand items for sale

 

Repair Clinic

     Town Center West will be buzzing with our ever-growing Repair Clinic!

     Coaches will help people learn to mend, darn, simple lamp repair, basic scissor/tool (garden, etc.) blade              sharpening, simple home furnishing repairs, outdoor wear repair and hopefully more.

 

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Visible Mending and Darning is taught and coached at the 2nd Hand Repair table

       

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Local coaches helped people learn how to repair small electronic home goods

without damaging themselves or their items

 

 

 

 

Repurposing ‘waste’ items​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

​Individuals, groups and businesses share how to make something new and fun out of items we tend to use and just throw away.

 

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Plastic bottle tops transform into a butterfly selfie wall - Hailey Library

 

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Old bike tires get remade into earrings and bracelets -Trailhead Bikes 

 

 

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People of all ages got to try their hands at weaving with yarn made from old t-shirts

 

 

 

Raffles, games and prizes

 

 

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Food trucks and music

 

 

 

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All brought to you by some of the fine people of our valley!

 

 

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How can YOU get involved?

We could use your help to make this event better again this year!

(contact CACWRV@gmail.com for these and other ways to help out)​

Volunteers for Earth Fest

  • Donations of small ‘like-new’ items for our 2nd hand bingo prizes

  • People to check in and check out repairs at our Fix-It Clinic – April 26

  • Handy people who have skills in repair of textiles (visible mending and darning), electronics, ceramics, or more

  • A person to help with a simple weaving project (no experience necessary)

  • Sidewalk chalk artists to lead pedestrians to our Earth Fest – April 26

  • A few hardy souls to help with set up or clean up of our event – 1 hour

  • People to help make signs and posters in early April

  • 15 people with a carload of 2nd hand to sell at our Trunk Sale

 

Materials Needed

  • Small ‘like-new’ items for our 2nd hand bingo prizes

  • Sign making materials (good markers, poster boards)

  • Needles, threads, small bits of varied yarns or cloths for repairing textiles

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Circularity vs. Linear

Cash donations can be made through The Building Material Thrift Store (our fiduciary sponsor-(208) 788-0014 - 213 N Main St, Bellevue, ID 83313, USA - info@thebmts.org) with the memo line reading ‘Earth Fest’
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