{"id":1312883,"date":"2019-07-27T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/a-half-century-of-community-fun-at-silt-heydays\/"},"modified":"2019-07-27T22:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T04:52:00","slug":"a-half-century-of-community-fun-at-silt-heydays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/a-half-century-of-community-fun-at-silt-heydays\/","title":{"rendered":"A half century of community fun at Silt HeyDays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.7040650406504\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-984968-208\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/HeyDaysColor-gpi-072819-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/HeyDaysColor-gpi-072819-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent | Sunshine lights up the annual Silt Heydays parade makes its way down Grand Avenue Saturday morning.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Sunshine lights up the annual Silt Heydays parade makes its way down Grand Avenue Saturday morning.<\/strong><br \/>Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/HeyDaysColor-gpi-072819-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sunshine lights up the annual Silt Heydays parade makes its way down Grand Avenue Saturday morning.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/HeyDaysColor-gpi-072819-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/HeyDaysColor-gpi-072819-1-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent | Chadd Drott, right, founder of Chadd\u2019s Walking With Wildlife talks about the Golden Eagle with patrons during Saturday\u2019s Raptor Fest at Silt HeyDays in Stoney Ridge Park.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Chadd Drott, right, founder of Chadd\u2019s Walking With Wildlife talks about the Golden Eagle with patrons during Saturday\u2019s Raptor Fest at Silt HeyDays in Stoney Ridge Park.<\/strong><br \/>Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/HeyDaysColor-gpi-072819-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Chadd Drott, right, founder of Chadd\u2019s Walking With Wildlife talks about the Golden Eagle with patrons during Saturday\u2019s Raptor Fest at Silt HeyDays in Stoney Ridge Park.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/HeyDaysColor-gpi-072819-1-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/HeyDaysColor-gpi-072819-1-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent | The Scones out of Paonia entertain the crowd at Stoney Ridge Park during Saturday\u2019s Silt Heydays.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>The Scones out of Paonia entertain the crowd at Stoney Ridge Park during Saturday\u2019s Silt Heydays.<\/strong><br \/>Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/HeyDaysColor-gpi-072819-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Scones out of Paonia entertain the crowd at Stoney Ridge Park during Saturday\u2019s Silt Heydays.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/HeyDaysColor-gpi-072819-1-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/HeyDaysColor-gpi-072819-1-3.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent | Patrons to Saturday\u2019s Silt HeyDays find a little shade under the tent in Stoney Ridge Park.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Patrons to Saturday\u2019s Silt HeyDays find a little shade under the tent in Stoney Ridge Park.<\/strong><br \/>Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/HeyDaysColor-gpi-072819-1-3.jpg\" alt=\"Patrons to Saturday\u2019s Silt HeyDays find a little shade under the tent in Stoney Ridge Park.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/a-half-century-of-community-fun-at-silt-heydays\/?#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/a-half-century-of-community-fun-at-silt-heydays\/?#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Greeted by sunshine and blue skies, Silt residents turned out for the 50th annual HeyDays Parade down Grand Avenue Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Numbers in attendance were down a bit from last year, but many down valley travelers were held up by the I-70 cleanup after Friday\u2019s mudslide in South Canyon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cOur parade was a little shorter than we expected. We were concerned that our [vintage] baseball team wasn\u2019t going to make it in this morning, and also our afternoon band is from Denver,\u201d said Peggy Swank, a member of the Silt Hey Days committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">After a fly-over from the Classic Air Medical helicopter, the procession of floats moseyed through Silt to the cheer of children clamoring for candy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With a few less entrants in the parade this year, the patrons were able to head for the park earlier than usual to enjoy the food, games and music at Stoney Ridge Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Early afternoon humidity and heat had visitors to the park seeking refuge under the nearest tent or tree for a little shade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThe temperature has been really wonderful. It\u2019s hot in the park, but it\u2019s mostly humidity,\u2019 Swank said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Big hits at this year\u2019s event included Raptor Fest, horseshoe tournament and the annual Vintage Baseball game at the Roy Moore Fields.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Silt All-star B.B.C. took on the Colorado Territory B.B.C. in a traditional Hey Days game that dates back over two decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:kmills@postindependent.com\">kmills@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/a-half-century-of-community-fun-at-silt-heydays\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunshine lights up the annual Silt Heydays parade makes its way down Grand Avenue Saturday morning.Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent Chadd Drott, right, founder of Chadd\u2019s Walking With Wildlife talks about the Golden Eagle with patrons during Saturday\u2019s Raptor Fest at Silt HeyDays in Stoney Ridge Park.Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent The Scones out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1312883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 09:57:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}