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Wednesday, March 29, 1995, Dogwood Festival Souvenir Edition
Page 2
Overview
Festival offers two days of fun and festivities
By LARRY HITCHCOCK
News Editor
Two days of fun and festivities, parades
and games are on tap this weekend when
the seventh annual Perry Dogwood Festival
bursts into full bloom.
From the time the first pancake is served
at 6:30 a.m. Saturday until the last trophy is
awarded to the best-looking muscle car
between 4 and 5 p.m. Sunday, the weekend
promises to be enjoyable for the entire fam
ily.
“We’ve tried to put together two days
that feature something for everyone in the
family,” Karen Nikitopoulos, Festival
chairman, said.
The Festival royalty was chosen two
weeks ago. Jennifer Baker will reign as
Miss Dogwood, with Dana Robinson serv
ing as Miss Teen Dogwood, Emily
Cawthon as Junior Miss Dogwood, Janna
Leech as Preteen Miss Dogwood and
Ashley Cawthon as Little Miss Dogwood.
The Perry Kiwanis Club will get the
Festival weekend started with a Pancake
Breakfast at the Houston County
Agriculture Building at 709 Carroll St. For
$3, you can put away a hearty pancake
breakfast to give you strength to begin your
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5K race and
One-Mile Fun
Run begin at 8
a.m. at the cor
ner of Ball and
Carroll streets.
If athletic
competition,
either watching
or participating,
is your idea of a
Karen Nikitopoulos
Festival Chairman
good time, head for Rozar Park about 9
a.m. for the Dogwood Festival tennis tour
nament or the Festival softball tournament.
(The finals of the tennis tournament are
scheduled for Sunday afternoon.)
While all that activity is going at Rozar
Park, Carroll Street will blossom with arts,
crafts and food vendors, plus games for the
children.
Even the Easter Bunny will be on hand.
The Fun Corner for kids will be next to
Carlton Interiors at 926 Carroll St. Games
will be open from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The
youngsters can join in spin art, go fish,
duck hunt, cake walk and darts, all present
ed by the Akikta Club. Cakes will also be
on sale at the start of activities.
The Farm City Flatfooters will show off
their clogging skills at the intersection of
Ball and Carroll streets at 10:30 a.m. with
the Cherokee Rose Dance Club scheduled
to demonstrate country-western dance at
the same place at 11:15 a.m.
The Balvaunuca Club will hold an Attic
Sale from 8 a.m.-noon at the Stanley
Furniture parking lot at 1107 Macon St. for
the adults who are attending the Festival.
Downtown merchants will have plenty
of Festival specials ready for the Saturday
crowds.
The highlight of Saturday’s events is the
big Dogwood Festival Parade that kicks off
at noon at the Trendline plant (the old
Kellwood plant) off Hodges Boulevard.
The parade will come east along Hodges
Boulevard then turn on Carroll Street to
just past the Post Office, where it will turn
right to Main Street and end up at Eastgate
Shopping Center.
Floats, beauty queens, clowns, cars and
area bands will be featured in the parade.
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Sunday most of the action shifts to
Rozar Park for Family and Friends at Rozar
Park Day.
The tennis finals will begin at 10 a.m.,
but most of the action starts at noon with
the City of Perry Appreciation Lunch.
A free sack lunch will be served to the
first 1,000 people. Mayor Jim Worrall and
members of the Perry City Council will be
on hand to serve the lunches and thank the
community for all its effort in completing
the Community Center.
The open house, originally planned for
the Festival, has been postponed because
work on the center and grounds had been
delayed by the wet weather experienced in
the area until recently.
The car show, featuring antique cars,
trucks, muscle cars, stock cars and street
rods, will be held from noon until 5 p.m. at
the park.
A special highlight for Sunday will be
the 70-foot tall Brown and Williamson hot
air balloon, which will offer tethered rides
up to 30 feet in the air.
The horseshoe fun pitch, at the new
horseshoe pits, will begin at 2 p.m. and kids
(See FESTIVAL, Page 3)
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