Northeast Arkansas fall festival sees best turnout yet

MONETTE, Ark. (KAIT) – A Major Avenue in Northeast Arkansas was stuffed to the brim with festival-goers on Saturday.

Monette’s Fall Pageant all the time attracts a crowd, however this 12 months’s pageant stuffed Major Avenue to the brim with a whole lot of individuals having fun with festivities and anticipating bands taking the stage.

The pageant had many issues to take pleasure in resembling a pumpkin contest, an outdated automotive present, a regional duck calling contest, reside leisure, and over 75 distributors.

Out of the 75 distributors, 17 of them had scrumptious meals to take pleasure in whereas visiting different distributors with arts & crafts, woodworking, magnificence merchandise, clothes, and jewellery gadgets.

For Monette Mayor Bob Blankenship, the pageant is all about bringing the group collectively, and over the previous three years, the pageant has exploded doing simply that.

“That is what I love to do to possibly draw our city nearer, not that it wanted quite a lot of assist, however simply get folks collectively,” mentioned Blankenship.

Mayor Blankenship mentioned this 12 months is by far the very best turnout, anticipating over 2,500 folks on the pageant.

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