People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)
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Attendance Up At Tilbury Summer Festival (Gallery)

The Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival delivered on "bigger and better" this year, doubling its previous year's attendance.

Around 2,500 people came out to the festival which ran from June 12-14 at Tilbury Memorial Park.

Festival Co-Chair Doug Demers says this year's drawing feature was the bigger rides, and organizers are already thinking about ways to make the event even better.

"More vendors, more rides, and more people coming," he says. "The more the merrier is the way it works. If we don't have the people, we can't put this (festival) on."

All money raised during the event is put back into the festival for the following year.

People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)

People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)

People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)

People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)

People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)

People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)

People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)

People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)People of all ages enjoy the rides and entertainment at the Tilbury Kinsmen Summer Festival, June 14, 2015. (Photo by the Blackburn Radio Summer Patrol)

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