If you don’t like standing in lines, consider purchasing your Taste of Kokomo tickets early. Advance ticket sales for admission to the event are located at the United Way Building, 210 W. Walnut. Admission tickets are $3. However, with each early ticket purchase you will also receive $2 in FREE food tickets.

The 11th annual Taste of Kokomo – voted Kokomo’s best event six years in a row – will be held on Saturday, August 16, 2008, from 5 p.m. to midnight downtown on the courthouse square.

Volunteers are still needed for set-up, tear-down and the 9:30 p.m. to midnight shift. Feel free to sign up as an individual or a group (business, family, church, etc.).

For more information or to volunteer, call Alison Brantley at the United Way office at (765) 457-6691 or e-mail abrantley@unitedwayhoco.org.

More information on the Taste of Kokomo event may be obtained by calling co-chairs Brian West at (765) 398-1888 or Darrell Blasius at (765) 457-5155.

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