Bolivar is Back - Festivals a Huge Success

Thousands gathered during the weekend after two annual festivals combined for a celebration of the peninsula’s recovery process from hurricane Ike.

MAY 2009 Crab Festival and Stingaree Music Festival

The Good Morning America crew was on the Peninsula on Saturday and plans call for a feature on the community when Robin Roberts broadcasts live from the county Monday morning.

Bolivar Chamber of Commerce President Anne Willis said during the peninsula’s Crab Fest and Stingaree Music Festival on Saturday. “I haven’t seen a lot of national attention on Bolivar, and I would hope they would come and see what the people themselves have done.

County commissioners plan to spend $35 million to improve and rebuild the water and sewer systems on Bolivar, to create a series of jetties to better protect the beaches and to build new emergency services buildings. Several million also will go to move and raise state Highway 87, the peninsula’s only means of evacuation.

“It’s not going to be the same Bolivar, but its going to be a bigger and better Bolivar,” Willis said.

Several Hurricane Resistant Home Builders were at the festivals preparing to help rebuild a Better Bolivar

Hurricane resistant Homes at Audubon Village in Gilchrist proved they can withstand natures worst.

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