{"id":17163,"date":"2010-08-12T20:58:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T00:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=17163"},"modified":"2010-08-12T20:58:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T00:58:33","slug":"mint-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/mint-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Mint Festival Down at the Depot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10aug\/minth.jpg' alt='image.jpg' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-left' \/>St. Johns, Michigan is celebrating the growing of the green \u2013 mint green that is<!--more--> \u2013 during the 26th annual Mint Festival.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe celebration of more than 100 years of Mint Farming continues after hours in Downtown St. Johns on the Train Depot Lawn. \u00a0<br \/>\nThe \u201cMint Festival Down at the Depot&#8221; takes place on Friday and Saturday, August 13 and August 14, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 12 Midnight on the St. Johns Railroad Depot lawn at 107 E. Railroad Street in Downtown St. Johns, Michigan.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe event kicks off with our annual Mint City USA Car Show at 6:00 p.m. on Friday night, August 13th, with cars lining the \u201cmain drag\u201d along Clinton Avenue.\u00a0 The entry fee for car show exhibitors is $10, and trophies will be awarded along with a $100 Cash Prize to the first place winner!\u00a0<br \/>\nWhile viewing those COOL cars, you can listen to some HOT music by the Mike Shafley Band and enjoy our Downtown on Tap beverages in the Beer Tent on the St. Johns Depot lawn, and you can try your luck at Casino Gaming at our Vegas Style Blackjack tables as well\u2026 all until 12:00 a.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe festivities resume again on Saturday, August 14th\u00a0at 6:00 p.m.\u00a0 Some call this night the biggest home-town reunion of the year, and various vendors will be on hand serving great food, along with radio personalities conducting live radio feeds.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Mike Shafley Band will be rocking out in our Downtown on TapBeverage Tent, and you can mix and mingle, dance\u00a0or try your luck at our Vegas style gaming tables until 12:00 a.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cMint Festival Down at the Depot&#8221; is made possible by the generous corporate sponsorship of the following businesses:\u00a0 Major summer events sponsorship by the City of St. Johns\u2013Mint City USA, WED-Wedding D\u00e9cor\/Event Planning\/DJ Service, Cher Car Kennels, Firstbank of St. Johns and Z92.5 The Castle radio station; along with Account Receivable Solutions, Allaby and Brewbaker Insurance, Custom Embroidery Plus and Jet Speed Printing.\u00a0 Other funding has been provided by Bruno\u2019s Wonder Bar, Clinton County Chamber of Commerce, Clinton County Federal Credit Union, Dershey\u2019s Caf\u00e9, Fifth Third Bank, Hub Tire Center, Jackson, Jackson &#038; Associates, Michigan Graphics &#038; Signs, St. Johns Reminder, Swany\u2019s Pub &#038; Grub, Trinity Engineering &#038; Surveying and Unique Reflections.\u00a0 Additional funding has been provided by American Legion Post 153, Clinton County Arts Council, Deano\u2019s Pizza and Mazz\u2019s Endzone Party Store.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor additional information about \u201cMint Festival Down at the Depot&#8221; visit our website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.DowntownStJohns.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.DowntownStJohns.org<\/a> or contact the St. Johns Downtown Management Board at (989) 227-1717.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Johns, Michigan is celebrating the growing of the green \u2013 mint green that is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mint"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}