Big Summer Bug-Out - The Big Summer Bug-Out started at an early August summertime party in 1923 when a bet between Craft Klinginsmith and George Pracejus Jr. over who had the most mosquito bites blossomed into fisticuffs. The modern celebration isn't about bites or fites. Instead, it's a chance for the whole town to turn out for one big party. The Big Summer Bug-Out is always the first Saturday of August. There's food, music, and games for both kids and grownups.

It starts at dawn, but things really get hopping when local "athletes" compete in the Bug-Out's own version of the Olympics. Firefighter's games at 4 and racing boats built out of nothing but milk cartons round out the afternoon's fun. An early evening concert by the Rizviville Summer Band and Fireworks over the lake finish up the day of fun.

Fall Pun'kin Fest - Started in 1989 and held the third weekend of October, the Pun'kin Fest celebrates the Fall season and the richness it bring to the Rizviville area. Wine Tasting contests of local wines by nationally-know judges give local wine makers a chance to find out if their spirits really are as good as everyone says.

The grape stompin' contest is good for a laugh, or maybe you'd rather try your luck at carving pun'kins for the jack-o-latern contest. Area crafters sell their wares in open-air tents while visitors are treated to the skirling of bagpipes and lively tunes of hammered dulcimers. In most places Fall is just a time to wait until it snows. In Rizviville, Fall means fun!

Winter Queen Contest - Since 1974 the first Saturday of February finds everyone at the Winter Queen Contest. This event gives all residents and visitors a change to get out of the house and enjoy all winter brings.

Starting with the talent and beauty Winter Queen Contest, through the afternoon's snowmobile safari around Fiddler's Lake, and ending with fireworks over a frozen and snow-covered lake, the day wouldn't be complete without all the hot cider and doughnuts you can drink and eat.

Sinking Car Lottery - What do you mean 'there's nothing to do in the early spring?" In Rizviville, something's always going on! Begun in 1958, when the outlet bridge was closed and a local resident tried to drive his car across the ice of Fiddler's Lake, the lottery is simplicity itself. A de-gassed and de-oiled car is towed out on the ice during February's Winter Queen Contest and left stranded on the frozen lake. Five dollar tickets are sold as to the day and time the car will sink as the ice melts in the Spring.

Half the money is given to the winner, half to the local library, and the car forms part of an artificial reef used by many of the lake's fish. Everybody wins in the Sinking Car Lottery!

Cow-Flop Bingo - Many of our city cousins have trouble believing this one, but it's true! On the Saturday after July 4th, the field is marked with a numbered grid and 3 cows are set free to graze. Tickets are sold as to which number will be honored with the first "flop." It might sound odd, but it's true, and a heck of a lot of fun besides. And it's probably why the grass grows greener in Rizviville.