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Heikinpäivä, Hancock’s mid-winter celebration, is Saturday.
The tori opens up at 10am at the Finnish American Heritage Center and the First United Methodist Church, offering a wide range of craft items and baked goods.
Family Fun Day activities will be taking place at Quincy Green from 10:00-2:00, where kids can ride the whipsled and the kicksleds.
The line up for the parade begins at 10:30 near the Scott Building and the parade steps off at 11:00.
Finnish Consul General Jukka Pietikäinen will be riding the World’s Largest Kicksled.
The parade will be followed by kicksled races and the wife-carrying contest at Quincy Green.
The Polar Bear Dive takes place at the Hancock waterfront at 3:00.
Saturday’s Heikinpäivä events wrap up with a dance at 7:00 at the Finnish American Heritage Center where the Consul General will bestow honors from the Republic of Finland upon two prominent Finnish Americans.
For the full schedule of Heikinpäivä activities, click here.
