HUBBARD — The Harding Park Board of Commissioners is celebrating the park’s 100th anniversary at 1 p.m. Saturday at the park, 249 Roosevelt Drive.

There will be a small parade, a commemoration ceremony, guest speakers, music and food.

The Hubbard High School choir and Hubbard Veterans of Foreign Wars will perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” and Hubbard Elementary School students will perform “This Land is Your Land.”

The Hubbard High School Jazz Band will perform in the band shelter.

In pavilion three, there will be refreshments and a video presentation about the park made by Michael Harvey, a 2023 graduate of Hubbard High School. “Mural in the Round” trash can art also will be displayed in this pavilion.

Speakers include Harding Park Board President Thomas Papa, Trumbull County Probate Court Judge James Fredericka, Hubbard City Mayor Ben Kyle, Hubbard Township Trustee Fred Hanley and site manager Sherry Hall for Warren G. Harding Presidential Sites, from Marion, Ohio.

The Rev. Michael Swierz of St. Patrick Church also will attend and give a blessing.

Park event organizing committee member Mary Buchenic will said those who helped with the event include the Harding Park Board, the Harding Park grounds supervisor, the Hubbard Public Library, the Hubbard Rotary Club, Hubbard city and township officials, Eagle Joint Fire District, Hubbard city and township police departments, the Hubbard Eagle mascot, the Hubbard Exempted Village School District music department, Hubbard High School art department, Boy and Girl Scouts, Danielle Aurandt, Rachel Cline, Hubbard High School jazz band instructor Scott Killian and high school art teacher Josh MacMillan.

Aside from Buchenic, other committee members include committee chair and park board commissioner Dave Kyle, Sean Bresnahan, Linda Clark, Diane Ditman, Andrea Harvey, Michael Harvey, Carol Killian, Barb Robey, Carol Ross and Jackie Stiver.

Harding Park, which originated in 1923, has 120 acres of land for public recreational use.

It originally was a farm with a creek running through it, owned by Jacob Kalver who donated the land to Hubbard village in 1922.

The park was named after U.S. President Warren G. Harding, who was a close friend of Kalver. The park was dedicated two weeks after Harding’s death.

At the dedication, Assistant Attorney General Augustus T. Seymour said, “Recreation plays a real part in every successful life. It is not all of life to earn a living. We have a right to know the joy of living.”