San Antonio Police Officers’ Association Memorial Festival And Car Show - 3 March 2012 (Mission: purchase)

[majormadmax]

Just thought I'd share this...

Memorial Festival and Car Show - A San Antonio Police Officers’ Association sponsored event

When: March 3, 2012
Where: SAPD Training Academy
12200 S.E. Loop 410

Time: 10am- 4pm
Car show entrance cut off at 12pm
Awards at 2pm

Entrance fee per person to grounds: $10 adult, $5 child
Entrance fee per vehicle to car show: $25
(One person will be admitted grounds entrance per vehicle.)

All proceeds to benefit the families of fallen SAPD officers.

The funds for this year's event will be used to send the family of Officer Stephanie Brown to the National Police Memorial in Washington. Her name will be placed on the Fallen Officer's Memorial Wall.

The Festival event will held at the SAPD Academy grounds with kids games and rides, Blue Bear (police bear) and Sparky (fire dog), police cars, fire trucks, Blue Eagle (helicopter), petting zoo, pony rides, an MMA cage fight in the gym, and a DJ.

The car show will be on the driving track. There will be awards available to car show participants. Car show cut off will be at noon.

Food will be available for purchase cooked by SAPOA.

Cheers! M2

[tortuga29]

Hmm...might have to get my dad to get the Shelby out for this.



Thanks majormadmax

[Neshomamench]

Fine post. Thankyou for letting people know.

[majormadmax]

I forgot to add that I hope I see a lot of you there!

I know there is a separate car show thread, I just wanted to let my fellow "gearheads" and car lovers know about this specific event!

Cheers! M2

[theeddie]

thanks for info im going to try and make it out

[majormadmax]

Just a reminder to all you fellow gearheads out there that this car show is this coming Saturday!

Cheers! M2

[majormadmax]

It was a pretty good event, a little slow to get started but once things got rolling it was a lot of fun!

The car show had some interesting vehicles, about a half-dozen members of the SA VW Beetle club came out. There was also a good selection of muscle cars, and a couple of "rat cars." Someone brought out a 1953 SA police car (not sure if it was an original patrol car or if someone just restored it as such) that was really popular. Chief McManus brought out one of the new Tahoes, I actually rode in one from another department last week on a call and am amazed at how these SUVs can handle so well at high speeds!

The rest of the event was family oriented, they had a lot of games and bouncy castles. The SAFD had a truck out and they let kids handle the hoses (with supervision, of course). There were some Revolutionary War re-enactors who were letting folks shoot a musket (using blanks of course). They had a DJ and a raffle, plus some good food. They flew in Blue Eagle, the SAPD helicopter to let people take a close-up look of it. All in all it was a great time.

I post some pics up later, but this hopefully will be a reoccurring event and definitely will gain popularity as more people find out about it. A few local media outlets were there covering it, the publicity will help spread awareness of this outstanding event.

Did anyone else make it out?

Cheers! M2

[SATX56]

We considered it.. but took the Gkids to the event at Mission San Jose. We were too tired after that. It's very close to us as is the mission. I think I heard a civil war re-enactment of sorts was happening in Jourdanton. Was a great day to be out wherever .

[majormadmax]

Here are the promised pics...click on the thumbnails for the full-sized version:

[pobre]

Thanks for the PIX, MMM! We had too much going on yesterday, but would like to try this for next year!