The money raised from registration fees benefits two area organizations, the Helping Hearts & Healing Tails Animal Rescue and the Beth Luther Homeless Pet Fund. “You know the money raised also goes to a good cause,” Meyers said. In addition to wearing capes, boots, customized witch hats and holding a few broom accessories, Meyers wore a customized skeleton bone bracelet that covered most of her hand. … It sounded like a lot of fun,” Moon said. So all of us got online and preregistered. We were at a restaurant in Somerset after shooting at a tournament last summer and one of the waitresses told us we might enjoy it.
Michelle Moon of Somerset, Kim Albright of White, Karen Kashurba of Greensburg and Cindi Meyers of Jennerstown are all members of a female sporting clay shooting team based in Somerset County. “And it’s nice to leave the children and husband at home,” she added.īerkebile and Brooke Sowers of Fairfield, another regular attendee, brought along a new “witch” to enjoy the day, Ashley Ament of Derry. “It’s fun to dress up and have a day to enjoy by yourself with a few friends,” said Berkebile, a regular attendee of the event, as she stopped in at a few stores around The Diamond. Pre-registration this year surpassed 1,200, and the event provided bus shuttles to town and area restaurants from the Ligonier Country Market field parking area on the west side of town.Īrnone will get no argument from attendee Dawn Berkebile of Latrobe on her reason for the event’s popularity. The fire department even closed a portion of Fairfield Street to offer food, refreshments and games at Sunday’s event.Įvent coordinator Carla Arnone said that although the event was cancelled in 2020 due to covid-19, pre-registration was “as strong as ever” this year.Īlthough a few people might not like the event’s promotion for attendees to “leave your husbands, boyfriends, significant others, children, pets and politics at home for this ladies-only gathering,” Arnone counters that she believes it’s also the reason the popularity increases each year.
Since it was created as a pre-Halloween event for women in 2016, the daylong festival offers a day for women to shop, enjoy live music, refreshments and food specials at Ligonier area businesses. Bicycles, buses and maybe even brooms were the preferred mode of transportation Sunday in Ligonier, as more than 1,200 “witches” from the region gathered for the town’s fifth annual Witches Bike Brigade event.
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