Y-Bridge Arts Festival Starts Friday

If you’re heading downtown this weekend you may be surprised to see your normal route blocked off.

Parts of the Y-Bridge will be shut down from 6 a.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Sunday for the first annual Y-Bridge Art Festival. Organizers say the festival will bring games, art, entertainment and a much needed boost to our community.

“The first one was to bring money into our economy, lord knows we need it. The next was to spotlight the quality of the artists we have in the area and my main thing was to get children excited about art,” says Linda Regula, Y-Bridge Arts Festival creator.

Regula hopes people driving by will decide to stop and check out the festival since they decided to leave some lanes of the bridge open.

“We originally got permission to shut down the whole bridge. Our committees got to thinking about it and if there was an accident over on the freeway what we will do is we’re going to leave the bridge from the Linden area over to the West Main area, the two west lanes we’re going to leave open,” she says.

The festival runs Friday from 6 to 11 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. For more information click here.