No amusements rides for Kendall carnival in July, but the show will go on

Photo by Tom Rivers: Max Martin, 5, and his sister Alice, 8, of Kendall zoom on the swing ride during the Kendall carnival on July 14, 2023.

By Tom Rivers, Editor Posted 14 March 2024 at 1:13 pm

KENDALL – The Kendall carnival will be back in July, but the event won’t have amusement rides.

Organizers of the event announced that a ride company wouldn’t commit to the carnival this year. The Kendall Fire Department is reducing the event from three days to two days, and this year it will be advertised as field days.

“Our Carnival will look different this year,” the department announced on Facebook. “Unfortunately due to circumstances out of our control as of right now we will not have rides at our carnival. We will be changing the name to field days and going to a two day event July 12th and 13th.”

Kendall is the last fire department in Orleans County that does a carnival. Fire department officials said they contacted several ride companies but none were able to commit to the event in Kendall.

Many of the other events will be back including a firemen’s parade on July 12 at 7 p.m. and beer tent that night from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

There will be a tractor pull, cornhole tournament, chicken barbecue, cruise-in and fireworks on July 13.

The department also announced the bands for the event:

Highway 31 on Friday, July 12, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Begging Angels on Saturday, July 13 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Shotgun Pauly on Saturday, July 13 from 9 p.m. to 1a.m.