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Second weekend in June, annually; 2026 edition June 12–13
The town's one great recurring gathering is a merger: the Potato Creek Festival and the Greene Township Lions Club Strawberry Festival, combined in recent years into the Potato Creek & Lions Strawberry Festival, held downtown on the second weekend in June. The town's own 2026 vendor application gives the current edition whole: Friday, June 12, 2026, 11:00 A.M.–10:00 P.M., and Saturday, June 13, 2026, 9:00 A.M.–8:00 P.M., returns to Potato Creek Festival, P.O. Box 515, North Liberty — the town's own box. The strawberry component is about fifty years old: the Lions District 25-G newsletter (February 2021) states the Strawberry Festival has been the Greene Township club's signature event every year for the past fifty years, that 2020 was the first time it was cancelled, and that the club serves strawberry shortcake and runs its train at the festival, proceeds supporting Camp Millhouse. The merger itself is told two ways and both print (conflict C68): the February 2021 newsletter describes the combined festival as the standing form, while the district's August 2026 newsletter tells that "the current festival was created several years ago from the merger of the Potato Creek Festival and the Greene Township Lions Club Strawberry Festival to support Camp Milhouse" — the exact merger year is stated by neither, and stands as a gap with the newsletter run as its settler. Dated instances reached: 17–18 June 2011, held at North Liberty Elementary School; 15–16 June 2012; 10–11 June 2022, the Greene Township Lions serving shortcake and the Lakeville Lions baked potatoes and cheese curds; 9–10 June 2023, co-chaired by Lions Jim Tibbs and Darlene Shock, potato doughnuts by North Liberty Masonic Lodge #266; and 12–13 June 2026. The festival stands in the town's audited accounts as its own fund (State Board of Accounts report 82702A, FY2024). The club's own cumulative claim — "over 51,000 served in 50 years" — prints as a claim under the club's own counting convention, not independently verified.