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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 wauxa Congratulations on your ' Jfh (s%nmud 'Dogwood /festival day. If you want to run off any pounds you gained eating, the Dogwood 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. The Butler Browif Gallery 987-0586 901 Northside Dr. Perry, Georgia Always A Reckoning Written by Former President Jimmy Carter Cover By Butler Brown Signed by Mr. Carter and Butler Brown ' $ $18.90 H e ipj n g yourself Helping Others Written and signed by Former First Lady Roslynn Carter Monday-Saturday 10-6 • Appointments At Your Convenience 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) *76e 7<we6 987-0543 Julia Brown-Owner