{"id":46385,"date":"2025-11-14T11:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T11:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/46385\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T11:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T11:51:09","slug":"35th-annual-ruskin-seafood-festival-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/46385\/","title":{"rendered":"35th Annual Ruskin Seafood Festival this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSKIN, Fla &#8212;\u00a0One year after hurricanes destroyed their entire office and left the community in tatters, organizers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ruskinseafoodfest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ruskin Seafood Festival<\/a> are celebrating resilience with an even bigger event and free admission for all attendees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Building on last year\u2019s success, the festival will once again offer\u00a0no entry fee, and this year they\u2019re also waiving the usual\u00a0$2-per-car charge\u00a0to enter E.G. Simmons Park, where the event is held.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ruskinseafoodfest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ruskin\u00a0Seafood Festival<\/a> to feature 150 vendors this weekend at E.G. Simmons Conservation Park<br \/>\n<br \/>Festival will include 300 local musicians<br \/>\n<br \/>Admission fee of $10 is waived, as is the $2 dollar fee to enter the park<br \/>\n<br \/>Festival runs 10am-5pm Saturday and 11a-to 5pm on Sunday<\/p>\n<p>Festival-goers can expect a full weekend of entertainment. <\/p>\n<p>Over the course of two days,\u00a0around 300 local musicians\u00a0will perform across two stages. The grounds will also feature\u00a0car shows both days, a\u00a0dog \u201cBark Yard\u201d\u00a0for pet owners,\u00a035 arts and crafts vendors, and of course, plenty of seafood and other local fare.<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Davis, Executive Director of the Greater South Shore Chamber of Commerce, says the festival plays a major role in supporting local businesses by giving them face-to-face access to the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur small businesses&#8230; it is their opportunity to showcase what they have to the community,\u201d Davis said. \u201cYou have new residents here, even older residents that have been here forever, [who] have no idea that these guys are right down the road and what they do. Whether they sell here or just make the connections and develop that trust\u2026 you know exactly where they are \u2014 you met them right down the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Ruskin Seafood Festival\u00a0runs\u00a0Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.\u00a0and\u00a0Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/ruskinseafoodfest.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/ruskinseafoodfest.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RUSKIN, Fla &#8212;\u00a0One year after hurricanes destroyed their entire office and left the community in tatters, organizers of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[274,28,276,2635,115,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278],"class_list":["post-46385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-top-stories","tag-florida","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-jason-lanning","tag-news","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}