Friendsapalooza Festival: A Day of Free, Inclusive Family Fun at Kelso Beach in Nawash Park on July 5

The new family-friendly festival in Owen Sound was built by local parents as a day where every family and individual feels welcome. Feats. 100 vendors, music, food trucks and more — free to attend.

Friends Britt Dawson from Owen Sound and Jess Degagne of Tara kept running into the same issue at community attractions and events: their children, who are neurodivergent, didn't feel the experience was built for them.

So the women decided to build one themselves. What started as an effort to create that good day for their own families has grown into the…