- By Dan Veaner
- Around Town
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It seemed like 5K was the Lansing Harbor Festival 's lucky number this year. When the day was over and the last people filed out of Myers Park, the counter at the front gate had recorded more than 5,000 visitors throughout the day to the third annual festival. Between donations at the gate, sales of T-shirts and other items, and raffles over $5,000 was donated to help pay for the cost of the festival. And the first annual 5K Lighthouse Run had attracted 62 competitors.The all-day event at Myers Park featured five live bands, youth and teen pavilions, over 50 vendors, the Lansing Farmer's Market, a safety demonstration by the Lansing Fire Department, a new Baker Cup Chicken Barbecue winner, a class reunion, and a Happy 50th Birthday celebration for the park itself.
 The festival started with the first annual Lighthouse 5K Run. Click the image above to see the story and winners of that event.    Former Lansing Supervisor Harris Dates blows out the candles on Myers Park's 50th Birthday Cake  Jay Engels and friend meet visitors   Dave Hatfield is the 2009 Baker Cup Chicken Barbecue Sauce Competition winner.  The Blue Sky Mission Club   Baker Cup Chicken Barbecue Sauce judges (left to right) Lansing Community Council President Ed LaVigne, WHCU's Dave Vieser and Geoff Dunn, Village of Lansing Mayor Donald Hartill, Lansing Town Supervisor Scott Pinney, Amanda Ryen-Yowhan  The Lansing Farmer's Market came to Harbor Festival  The Lansing Fire Department demonstrated what would happen in a dorm room or a family room at home if a fire starts in a wastebasket, how to put it out if you discover it in time, and how they put it out if you don't. The burn was sponsored by the Landlords Association of Tompkins COunty   The Floating Classroom offered lake cruises  Lansing Youth Services hosted the ever-popular frozen T-shirt contest. Teams pull on a frozen, bunched up T-shirt, and the first to unfreeze it enough for a team mate to wear it is the winner  The Burns Sisters   Ithaca New Orleans Dixieland Jazz Band    Fun at the Youth Pavilion  The festival's opening ceremony with (left to right)Lansing Town Supervisor Scott Pinney, Lansing Community Council President Ed LaVigne, Village of Lansing Mayor Donald Hartill, Lansing Harbor Festival Chairwoman Karen Veaner   Po'Boys Brass Band  Sand Castle Contest  Lansing's County Legislator Mike Sigler  Tompkins County SPCA booth  Take Your Pick FLowers at the Farmer's Market   Vendor Row  (Left to right)WHCU's Dave Vieser and Geoff Dunn, Lansing Harbor Festival Chairwoman Karen Veaner |
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