Chingawassa Days is a 25-year, time-honored tradition in Marion and it is happening the first week of June. “Chinga started back in ’97 and was just an idea that someone wanted to do something for our community to bring the community together in a big way. And it just started, you know. I think they started with just like a picnic on Friday and they had a little local band and it’s kind of just a community gathering,” said committee chairman Clayton Garnica. He went on to say “Over the years, you add different community members on and it just sparked from there and has grown bigger and bigger. And basically, it is what it is today. Um, yeah. So ,it was just an idea really that someone, or a group, not necessarily one person just wanted to do something for the community to bring everybody together. And that’s, kind of just how it started.”
Source: Hillsboro Free Press
