- February 10, 2025
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Richard Sorois completes a caber toss at the Celtic Festival on Saturday, April 22. Photo by Jacque Estes
Emma Hall enjoys making oversized bubbles under the bridge between Fortunato Park and Rockefeller Gardens at the Celtic Festival on Saturday. Photo by Jacque Estes
Seabreeze High School track and field team members volunteered their time at a craft table at the Celtic Festival. Photo by Jacque Estes
Luke Hall helps out MacKenzie Hall at the sand table at the Celtic Festival. Photo by Jacque Estes
McKenzie Hall rolls some play-dough in an area under the bridge just for children. Like most of her family MacKenzie was wearing a kilt. Photo by Jacque Estes
Musicians played for food for the Florida Food Music Food Initiative at the Celtic Festival. Photo by Jacque Estes
Trish Jones paticipated in the heavy weight toss for distance. This toss traveled 24 feet-2-inches. Photo by Jacque Estes
Para chair participant, Alexander Armor participated in the sheaf toss, clearing the bar by several feet. Photo by Jacque Estes
Scarlett Decker partipated in the sheaf toss. Photo by Jacque Estes
Highland games included the heavy weight for distance competition. Photo by Jacque Estes
Sharon Hartmann demonstrated her versatility by playing her violin while twirling a hula hoop on her hips with the musical group Just Twistin Hay. Photo by Jacque Estes
Off to the 7th annual Celtic Festival in style. Zoe the Pomeranian and her "driver" Norma Scott wait for the light to change on Granada Blvd. so they could enjoy the Celtic Festival. The two are regulars at the festival.
Kilts in an assortment of colors were the dress of the day at the 7th annual Celtic Festival. Photo by Jacque Estes
Hammers, weights, and cabers were flying through the air in Rockefeller Gardens and Fortunato Park on Saturday, April 22. The athletes throwing them were dressed in varying colors of kilts and competing for points in hopes of competing in the international games in Scotland.
More than 60 competitors, male and female, competed as cameras snapped in hopes of capturing the excitement of the moment.
Dressed in a blue, green and gold kilt Alexander Armor positioned his wheel chair, jabbed the blue and red sheath for the sheath toss and easily cleared the bar.
A disabled veteran from Tennessee, Armor is a para-chair competitor for Scottish Heavy Athletics/Highland Games and an adaptive sports advocate. Armor created the “Gimp Style Foundation,” http://gimpstyle.org, to promote research, technology and advocacy for adaptive athletes of all types, not just those participating in the Paralympics.
“Mr. Armor will be doing an exhibition with regards to educating the public as to what disabled veterans are capable of from a wheelchair,” said Robert Gourlay, who organizes the Ormond Games along with many others across Florida and the Southeast.
Events continue on Sunday, April 23 and will include opportunities for festival-goers to try some of the various game stations from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Also planned for Sunday are sheep dog demonstrations with the Craigmalloch border collies at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. and a hurling demonstration, both in Fortunato Park. At 2:40 p.m.,
a dog parade and costume competition will be held as a fundraiser for the Halifax Humane Society.
