WINSLOW — The Winslow Family 4th of July Celebration began its second day Friday with local music, fundraising and food.

Face painting, fried dough and a deep-fried Snickers — the only accoutrements missing were the spleen-punishing amusement rides faithfully in service since the ’60s. Fort Halifax Park dusted itself off Friday after former members of the band Boston rocked the park Thursday night. By noon, the deep fryers were hot, the sun was high and the stage was set.

The blockhouse shuddered when local rock band The Resistance took the stage. During a mic check, lead vocalist Sierra Carey belted out a range that would have made Christina Aguilera run for cover before breaking into their first number.

Nearby, 5-year-old Wyatt Scribner, from Oxford, tried his hand at the strong man game — using all his might to raise the hammer above his head before hopefully hitting the board just right to ring the bell. His mother, Jenny, stood at a safe distance, offering encouragement.

After several attempts, Wyatt moved on to the Plinko game, where he won a squishy eyeball toy and light-up glasses.

“It was really hard to try to ring the bell,” he said, resigned to settling for his Plinko winnings. He described his strategy in the strong man game as a kind of “Graah” sound as he arched his arms over his head.

Nearby, two men who could have helped the boy with his form manned the Rough Gents Social Club tent, selling T-shirts and passing out pamphlets about their organization’s goal to “reclaim men’s values.”

“Our patron saint is Theodore Roosevelt. He is the inspiration for the club,” said group president Hannibal Kane, of Waterville, cradling a rather large portrait of Roosevelt in his Rough Rider uniform. To his right sat Rhyse Dorian, of Fairfield.

Kane described the group as “a group of guys a little rough around the edges.” Kane said, “We’re trying to bring back a sense of community and camaraderie and culture in the area.”

Kane said his group wanted to bring a little purpose back into Independence Day by giving away 1,000 copies of the U.S. Constitution on Saturday at the parade.

“We did a very successful food drive for Thanksgiving at Shaw’s (supermarket). We helped renovate the park in the south end, and we’re trying more and more to get out and do more things for our communities,” he said.

As for the values the Rough Gents are trying to reclaim, Kane said the group values respect, grit, self-reliance and class.

“We believe men should have a little gumption, but they should also be good men,” Kane said.

Those ideals are represented in the group logo, which depicts a skull wearing a bowler hat and a monocle.

Tucked far away from the pageant controversy that bedeviled the Winslow Miss 4th of July pageant this week, Maine Collegiate Dairy Princess Leah Caverly, from Clinton, was assigned to stand down the hill among the pony rides and alpacas. She said she was there to support Deer Hill Farm in Benton and its owners, Beverly Donovan and her uncle Richard Caverly. She was there with a bull calf named Butterfingers and samples of Cabot cheese, for which Deer Hill Farm supplies milk.

Caverly said her duties include being an ambassador for the dairy industry. Although she grew up on a farm and belonged to 4-H, she’s no longer actively involved in agriculture but is studying sustainable agriculture at the University of New Hampshire.

In the Winslow High School Project Graduation tent, students gathered as parents and teachers pushed raffle tickets. Jen Morneault, a first-grade teacher and mother of two high schoolers said the raffle is for a $500 Visa gift card. Morneault said only 300 tickets at $10 will be sold and when they’re gone, organizers will draw a winner’s name.

Another raffle prize is a family fun combination pack of four Portland Sea Dogs tickets and four Funtown Splashtown USA tickets. Those raffle tickets cost $5 apiece. Students also picked strawberries and are selling strawberry shortcakes for $3.

Working with Morneault, Kristi Carlow said the student involvement has been great, with six teens at a time working two-hour time slots from noon until 10 p.m. both days.

Morneault and Carlow said nothing is set in stone for the class of 2016, but they hope to raise the bar with fundraising this year.

Friday night events were scheduled to include a street dance in the park, and Independence Day events include Journey cover band Scarab.

Douglas McIntire — 861-9252

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