Kilts and haggis and all things Scottish will descend on Oxford’s Central Children’s Home this Saturday for the Premier Highland Games. Buck Buchanan, a board member of the Central Children’s Home, Organizer of the games and Scottish Descendent is expecting a big turnout for the event. “Last year we raised $10,000 in our first year. This year we are hoping for $25,000,” Buchanan said. The money will all go to the Central Children’s Home. “We want to provide a beautiful place for the children,” added Buchanan, and the money raised at Saturday’s free event will help. While the event itself is free, there is a $20 fee for parking which also goes back to support the home.
The events will feature “large men and women” according to Buchanan. These large men and women will be hurling heavy objects including 56 pound weights, 16 pound burlap bags, 20 pound Scottish hammers, 21 and 28 pound metal blocks, 18 pound river stones and logs in a variety of competitions. All part of a Scottish tradition that goes back 700 years.
After the heavy objects are hurled you may need food, and there will be plenty of traditional Scottish food on hand from sausages and meat pies to haggis. Music will be provided by three pipe and drum bands to bring not only the sights but the sounds of Scotland to Oxford.
The event will take place 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Central Children’s Home in Oxford at 211 W. Antioch Dr.
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