POINT PLEASANT — The annual Mason County Parent Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, at the Mason County Board of Education Office.

According the Gail Stewart, county parent coordinator, this event is held to provide information to parents as well as become familiar with the coordinators and board members.

“Last year, we had over 500 people come through the doors of the gymnasium,” Stewart said. “It is a great way to touch basis with as many parents as possible.”

The theme for this year is “Fall into Reading” and all parents of students in Mason County schools are encouraged to attend.

Materials and information as well as pamphlets will be given to everyone who attends. For the kids, there are plenty of fun activities, including a bounce house, Wii system, cake walk, crafts, face painting, pumpkin decorating and Tae Kwon Do demonstrations. Door prizes will be given away and refreshments will be served.

“We will be promoting reading on top of everything else going on,” Stewart said. She added that all kids will receive free books.

Some of the vendors that will be at the parent fair include Imagination Station, Woodmen of the World Lodge #302, Mason County Reading Counsel, Pleasant Valley Hospital Mason County Health Department and David Anthony of the D.A.R.E. Program.

The Family Resource Network, which co-sponsors this event along with the Mason County Board of Education Title I and local businesses, will have a race car on display provided by Greg Fowler.

“You name it, we have it,” Stewart said about the information and activities that will take place this weekend. “There is so much information out there for parents and we are here to help them obtain it.”

Mason County Board of Education members and Superintendent Dr. William Capehart, plan on being at the parent fair to meet and talk with families.

This is the third year the parent fair has been held at the old Central Elementary, now the Mason County Board Office, and all the parent coordinators throughout the county are looking forward to seeing everyone who attends.