The thing about that is that you don’t have much of a fundraiser without lots of nonparishioner attendance. You can have a parish fellowship event, but it’s not going to bring in a lot of money.
Good point. Then perhaps the parish should sell admission tickets in advance. No tickets at the door. I'm guessing local nonparishioners would make the effort to walk over to the church and buy those tickets.
But of course that wouldn't stop determined local youths from crashing security barriers. Police presence would have to be massive.
What an ugly mess. Perhaps there is no solution except for the parish to move its festival. But they shouldn't close down!
Yes, we have the “Sausage Fest” here in late September and the nonparishioner attendance is very good. Have yet to witness an altercation in all these years but demographics are different here. The elephant ears are excellent, games are entertaining, and the women run a thrift shop in the parish school.