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Watermelon Festival & Craft Show - July 19, 2008 - Valliant City Park
The Valliant Watermelon Festival and Craft Show, in its 7th year, is an annual event to be held July 19, 2008 this year. Our mission is to celebrate the diversified agriculture in our four states area corner, including local produce, arts, forestry products and tourism. The Festival features ethnic and cultural entertainment partners such as music, wood working, photography contest, quilt show, crafts and a Friday evening Gospel concert. Saturday night there will be a Blue Grass Concert by local artists and during the afternoon, artists from our talent contest will perform. Our goals are to provide information and entertainment concerning our cultural, artistic and agricultural area to local neighbors and traveling tourists. Learn from the demonstrations, enjoy the music, feast your eyes on the varied talent and treat yourself with some ice cold drinks, tasty foods and free, ice cold watermelon. We anticipate an attendance of 5,000 or more with an audience from all age brackets and demographics. The Queen and King Pageants get everyone in the community involved weeks before the festival. They see sponsors of $5.00 each with 50 sponsors needed to ride in the parade on royalty floats. The King and Queen are judged on their original casual outfit and modeling ability or lack of it. Past year’s talent entries ranged from Julia “Watermelon” Child to a local farmer’s poetry about his grandkids and watermelon. Again this year, we will also be holding a serious Watermelon Queen Contest with the winner traveling to McAllen, Texas for the Texas/Oklahoma Association Queen Contest. Our 2007-08 Queen, Miss Jill Fennell, has been a great representative promoting our local area. She was second runner-up in the Association’s contest held January 18-20, 2008. There are a hot of children’s games, including pin the seed on the watermelon, a quarter sawdust scramble and horseshoe pitching contest.
There is no admission fee and watermelon is provided free to those present. There was very little negative feedback in the past three years. We have had numerous people come forward volunteering for this year. They realize the benefit of everyone working together to promote and celebrate the artistic ability of the people and the bounty of our local produce. If you are interested in participating as a vendor please click here.
If you would like to participate
in our Parade Photography Contest Rules Photography Entries will be on display
at the James B. Ray Community Center Robert Lairson, Photography Chairperson, has announced the rules for the 7th Annual Watermelon Festival Photography Contest to be held July 18 in Valliant, Oklahoma. The required theme is watermelon or life on the farm. Early entries may be taken to Lairson Imaging (on Hwy 70 West, in the old Roadhouse Bar-B-Q) or the Valliant Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture office. Entries will be released July 19 at 4 p.m. Awards will be 1st Place - $25.00;
2nd Place - $15.00; 3rd Place - $10.00. For more information, contact Robert Lairson at 933-4152, or the Valliant Chamber of Commerce at 933-5050. Robert Lairson
Photography Contest Entry Forms
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We
promote the event through newspapers, brochures, posters, mail outs,
radio, TV and on our website, valliantchamber.org. Our City Park
is clean with handicap parking and restroom facilities available.
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