WEST CHESTER, OH (FOX19) - The Union Centre Blast kicks off Friday, August 13 with a Farmers' Market. Throughout the weekend visitors can enjoy cooking demostrations, a classic car show, an eating contest, beer and wine tastings, amusement park rides for the kids, and live music every night. Runners can take part in the four mile run/walk Saturday morning.

A craft beer tent will feature more than fifty beers, some of which are unusual for the area. The price is $10 dollars for six tickets. Wine lovers will no doubt be impressed with the World of Wine boutique. The retail bottle price of each wine is between $10 and $20 dollars.

Organizers have expanded the Union Centre Blast to make it an event that will have regional appeal and expect around 35,000 people to attend over the weekend.

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WEST CHESTER, OH (FOX19) - Friends remember Jordan Day as an avid golfer, on the varsity team at Lakota East High School. Their first golf meet was set for Thursday, that's now been canceled as a community mourns their loss.

A top notch player who lived and breathed of the game of the golf, that's how Jordan Day's golf coach, Jeff Combs, describes his 16-year-old player.

"[He] loved golf, just really hard worker, was our leader, was one of the best golfers I think in the state," Coach Combs said.

Combs says Day's teammates are leaning on each other as they try to come to terms with day's untimely death.

Day would have been a junior at Lakota East and had just moved from California last summer.

"He was a very good student, well liked by his peers and certainly going to be a tremendous loss for our school," said Lakota East Principal Dr.