Walters carnival draws excellent turnout

The Walters Ladies Community Club was seeking to do a great thing for the community when it founded the Walters Community Carnival, and the third annual iteration of the event Saturday, Aug. 3, left attendees feeling like the club had succeeded.

“We think it went well,” Walters Ladies Community Club President Shawn Carr said Tuesday, Aug. 6. “We had an excellent turnout, and everybody, as they were leaving, were telling us how much fun they had.”

She said she thought this might have been the carnival’s best year yet, estimating that about 150 people attended.

“It wasn’t just people from Walters,” she said. “It was people from all around, which was good.”

The event took place at the Walters Ruritan Club Community House, located at 27746 Walters Highway in Carrsville.

Carr said the carnival games and also the rock-climbing wall provided by the Isle of Wight County Sheriff’s Office were some of the event’s most popular features.

“I think the free food was a hit because everybody got free food,” she said. “The only flavor that was left with the snow cones when I went to go get one in the afternoon was sour apple. They had gone through everything else. So that was a hit, of course, because of the heat.”

The carnival featured a fire safety trailer, which functions as a simulator and teaches children what to do in the event of a fire. The Carrsville Volunteer Fire Department brought a brush firetruck, and a paid crew from the county brought an ambulance.

As her thoughts turn to preliminary planning for next year’s carnival, Carr indicated that the rock wall will definitely be back.

“I think we might try to add another bounce house,” she said, highlighting one that has a three-story-high slide as being particularly impressive.

She noted that the Walters Ladies Community Club does fundraisers all year long to make the carnival possible.

“We have changed our whole club, outlook and everything, to become a more community service-oriented club to where we did more community events, and we worked on getting our 501(c)(3), and we have gotten that, and so that allows us to get more donations from outside the area and work on different community events,” she said.

The club’s next event is Cookies and Milk with Santa, set for Sunday, Dec. 1, at the Walters Ruritan Club Community House.

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