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Annually from c. 1977 to the merger
Before the merger, the town's festival was the Potato Creek Festival, tied to the opening of the Potato Creek State Recreation Area. The Independent-News (Walkerton), 13 August 1981, reported: "This Friday and Saturday North Liberty will again hold their annual Potato Creek Festival. This annual event, now in its fifth year… the origin of the festival came from the opening of the Potato Creek State Recreation Area a few years ago… the two day festival that draws thousands of people into North Liberty." A festival in its fifth year in August 1981 began about 1977, the year the recreation area was dedicated (6 June 1977 — on township ground; the dedication is the park's file's event, pointed to here). "Draws thousands" is the 1981 paper's own characterisation, printed as its claim. No program, parade route, or attendance figure for any single edition was reached beyond that account; the festival's full run of dates between c. 1977 and the merger is a named gap, its settler the Independent-News and North Liberty News files and the Lions district newsletters.