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ELKINS -- The Elkins Depot Welcome Center will host the inaugural Depot Day at the Rotary Amphitheater in Elkins Town Square on July 23.
Depot Day is an event designed to help celebrate the Center's 16th year of serving more than one million people annually. The celebration will feature an adult and kids cornhole tournament along with live music and food vendors.
"We are doing the Depot Day to celebrate the 16 years that we have been open," said Anne Beardslee, executive director of the Elkins-Randolph County Tourism CVB and Welcome Center. "We did a 10th anniversary celebration and we were going to do a 15th but we couldn't because of COVID.
"It's really just going to be a day for people to be around the depot, stop by and hit a few food vendors, and watch some of the live music and the cornhole tournament we'll have going on. It's just to kind of thank people."
The adult cornhole tournament will get underway at 11:15 a.m. while the kids' competition kicks off at 11:45 a.m. Registration for both tournaments will begin at 10 a.m.
Food vendors will be available from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. and local band "Motorcycle Drive-By" will perform on the concert stage from 3 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. Pittsburgh's own "North of the Mason Dixon" will be performing from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m.
Beardslee said the Farmer's Market offered at the depot every Saturday morning won't be affected. The market will still be up and running at its regular time from 8 a.m. until noon on July 23.
The Welcome Center started serving the Elkins area in 2006. In 2018, the Elkins-Randolph County Tourism Convention and Visitors Bureau, which falls under the Elkins Depot Welcome Center, was established.
The Elkins Depot Welcome Center strive to provide visitors with a welcoming experience to our city, county and region. In 2019, as a recognition of excellence in the tourism industry, the center became an accredited CVB through the West Virginia Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus.