Bordentown City’s annual Street Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 21 and 22.
By: William Wichert
BORDENTOWN CITY If you ask Diane DiSpaldo what people will see on city streets next weekend, she’ll tell you it’ll be the same as last year, and the year before that.
"What you’ll see is what you’ve been seeing for the last 28 years," said Ms. DiSpaldo, treasurer of the Greater Bordentown Area Chamber of Commerce and co-chair of the city’s annual Street Fair organizing committee.
From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 21 and 22, food, music and crafts of all kinds will be on display for the city’s street fair, an event that has attracted about 10,000 people in recent years, she said.
First- and second-place ribbons will be awarded to crafters in various categories, including sewing items, bath items, handmade jewelry, art work and antiques.
The Bordentown Rotary Club will raffle off a quilt designed by volunteer community members last year. "The quilt that is being raffled off is from squares that were judged last year," she said.
The children will head to the Kids’ Corner on Walnut Street, where the St. Mary’s PTA will provide face painting, pony rides and the inflatable moonwalk, while the adults find their own entertainment outside Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank on Farnsworth Avenue.
The choir and school band from Bordentown Regional High School will perform outside the bank, and a Peruvian band from New York State may make an appearance.
"They’re a wonderful band," Ms. DiSpaldo said. "We never know if they’re coming. They show up at the last minute."
Ms. DiSpaldo said she is hoping the weather’s nice, but if it isn’t, the fair will take place anyway.
"We’ve been lucky for the last couple of years," she said. "Even if we just get a light drizzle, the event still goes on, rain or shine."

