New Games Highlight St. Alexis Parish Festival in McCandless

The 21st annual St. Alexis Parish festival opens July 31, featuring food, rides, and several new games of chance.

The festival, held on the church grounds at 10090 Old Perry Highway in McCandless, runs through Aug. 3 from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. nightly.

Among the new games is a Candy Wheel in which players are guaranteed to win a prize, but the size depends on where the wheel stops.

“It will be a variety of small, medium, and king-sized candy bars,” Leslie Johnson, games committee chairwoman told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “There will be other spaces with smaller candy, but they're all treats.”

The Dime Toss is a new game in which players try to win prizes by throwing a dime into the container that corresponds to the prize they hope to win. Glass and plastic receptacles will be used, and as the prizes increase in value, the containers get smaller in size, with the smallest being a shot glass, Johnson told the Trib.

Two other new games let players compete against each other in tossing basketballs into a hoop or scoring a soccer goal.

“Other festivals in the area don't have these games,” Johnson told the Trib. “I think there is something for everyone at this year's festival.”

The church has put the complete list of festival events on its web site. 

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