Bass Lake Festival this Friday through Sunday

Posted on July 26, 2017
Author Michael Gallenberger, WKVI

The 2017 Bass Lake Festival is this weekend. It gets underway this Friday with the Miss Bass Lake, Junior Miss Bass Lake, and the Little Miss/Mister Bass Lake pageants. Saturday’s activities include a 5K run/walk, sailboat races, and a fireworks display over Bass Lake.

The festival wraps up Sunday, with a bike race, cardboard boat race, and the Bass Lake Festival Parade. This year’s grand marshal is local businesses owner and longtime festival volunteer John McGrath.

Food and entertainment will be featured all weekend long. For a complete schedule and more information, visit BassLakeFest.com.

Bass Lake Festival Grand Marshall for 2015 – Patti Bush

Patti and her husband, Bill, moved to Bass Lake with their two children on Memorial weekend of 1981 from Michigan.  Loving the lake, Patti wanted to meet people and do whatever she could to become part of the community and joined several organizations and clubs in the Bass Lake area.  She started by joining the Bass Lake Property Owners Association and served on the board in various positions for 14 years.  While on the board she helped with the Bass Lake Festival for 4 years.  She joined the Bass Lake Lioness Club where she did the Bass Lake Directory as a scholarship fundraiser for the Lioness Club. 

In 1997 she was elected to serve on the Bass Lake Conservancy Board and continued that service for 17 ½ years, 16 years on the Board of Directors and 1 ½ years working in the office.  She developed and did the grants to receive funds from the State of Indiana for the weeds in Bass Lake.  She has been back on the Festival committee for the last 3 years. 

When her children were in the California Township School she served at the PTO President for 2 years.  Bill joined the Bass Lake Fire Department and she was involved with all the fundraisers they had to purchase equipment.  Patti has been a director for the Tourism Board for the last 3 ½ years and has been appointed by the Starke County Commissioners to the CVC Board. 

Last but not least, she was the neighborhood mom to all.  Patti and Bill’s 2 children, Hollie Grantz and Jon Bush, still live in the area and have given them 5 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild.  Patty’s enjoying watching the next generation enjoy the lake as much as she did when they first moved here.

7/25 to 27/2014 Bass Lake Festival Schedule