The tenth annual Greek Festival, a traditional family-oriented celebration, will be held Friday through Sunday, September 8-10 on the parking lot of St. Thomas the Apostle Orthodox Church, 4200 S. Holiday Avenue. Festival hours are 5 to 10 p.m. on Friday, noon to 10 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is free with plenty of free parking. In the past they've had about 5000 attendees to the festival. Spokesperson Jeanne Duffey says "it's more like a party than a 'festival'... We get a lot of repeat customers and visitors, so we wanted to add a lot of new things this year." Greek food is, of course, of the event's most popular draws each year. While many of the food entrees such as souvlaki are repeats from previous years, they're bringing back a goodie first introduced at last year's festival, and which proved to be very popular: keftedes (Greek meatballs). New this year on the menu are two items: loukoumades (Greek doughnuts), which they'll prepare right on-site;
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