(KNZA)--Timed again with the Labor Day Weekend, the annual Wathena Fall Festival will be held in the Doniphan County Community. 

The weekend will be filled with activities, starting Friday evening, and continuing Saturday, and Sunday, all held under the theme “Wathena Goes Hollywood.” 

Northeast Kansas Enterprise Facilitation Facilitator Teresa McAnerney says the festival will include numerous activities, contests and a carnival(Play Audio)

The Fall Festival begins Friday evening, with live entertainment at 5:00, followed by the opening of booths and welcoming ceremonies, including the American Legion Honor Guard, comments from Mayor Robert Ryser , an invocation by Judge Roy Roper, and the National Anthem performed by Tara Gabriel. 

The carnival begins at 6:00, followed by the annual pie eating contest, featuring this reporter sitting in as a contestant once again, at 6:30(Play Audio) 

More local entertainment will be featured through the evening, once the pie contest concludes, with the carnival running until 10:00 Friday night. 

McAnerney says the activities will resume early Saturday morning(Play Audio)

Another full day of events, including a 3:00 parade, is set to happen in Wathena on Sunday(Play Audio) 

Also at 8:00 Sunday evening, the carnival closes, officially bringing the annual Fall Festival to a conclusion for another year. 

2012 Wathena Fall Festival: 

Wathena Goes Hollywood

Friday August 31, 2012

12:00-5:00 Booth Set Up 
5:00 pm Local Entertainment Begins: Eunyque Byrd 

5:30 pm Booths Open
Dinner East Side of City Hall: FF Committee- BBQ Quilt Show Opens Voting for Royalty Opens @ Info booth

Silent Auction Opens for Co-Judge w/M Bracciano- Baking Contest
Weather KQ-2 
Honor Guard: Legion 
Welcome: Mayor
Invocation: Judge Roy Roper
Star Spangled Banner: Tara Gabriel

6:00 pm Carnival Opens 
Local Entertainment: Tim Floyd & Bridge Thomas

6:30 pm Pie Eating Contest 

7:00 pm Announce Winners of Senior Art Show
Local Entertainment: Voices of America

8:00 pm Local Entertainment: Tim Floyd & Bridge Thomas

9:00 pm Zach Newton (2 hours)
(The Place will be open)

10:00 pm Carnival Closes for the evening

**** MOVIE TRIVIA throughout the weekend**** 

Saturday September 1, 2012

7:00 am Registration for 5k Run/Walk (FCA)
Mason’s Biscuits & Gravy B-fast at City Hall 

8:00 am 5k Run/Walk 

9:00 am Antique Tractor Show (Raymond Miller’s Yard) 

10:00 am Catholic Choir Practice

11:00 am Line Up Children’s Parade @ Third and Jessie Streets
Registration begins for Kids Pedal Tractor Pull

11:30 pm Children’s Parade

12:00 pm Booths Open
Carnival Rides Open
Silent Auction-Co-Judge with Mike Bracciano- for the 
Pie and Bread Baking Contest opens
Senior Art Show @ Wathena Nursing and Rehab cont'd 
Quilt Show Opens
Local Entertainment: (CD’s) Soundtracks from Movies

1:00 pm Kids Pedal Power Tractor Pull: 
for children 11 years old and younger 

2:15 pm Winner of the Co-Judge of Baking Contest announced

2:30 pm Children’s Fun Games

3:00 pm Tractor Pull at Grain Company
Drop off Deadline for Pies/Breads at Peter’s Creek
Coffeehouse

3:30 pm Kids Talent Show 

4:30 pm Pie & Bread Judging and Auction

5:00 pm Dinner East side of City Hall—Washington Workshop— Pasta Meal

5:00 pm Rock ‘n Country Variety Show (split show 5:00-6:15) 

6:30 pm Catholic Church Choir

7:00 pm Rock ‘n Country Variety Show (split show 7:00-8:15)

8:30 pm Voting Closes for Royalty Contest

9:00 pm Under the Infuence 
(The Place will be open)

10:00 pm Carnival Closes for the evening


Sunday September 2, 2011

7:00 am KOC Pancake Feed @ Catholic Church 
9:00 am Community Church Service

10:00 am Will Stuck story teller-kids and/or adults

11:00 am Royalty Contestant Winners 
Car and Bike Show Line Up 

12:00 pm Booths Open for Lunch 
Carnival Rides Open 
Release Cow 
Quilt Show Opens 
Senior Art Show @ Wathena Nursing and Rehab 
12:00 pm Local Entertainment: RHS Cheerleaders

12:30 pm Local Entertainment: Collin Studer

1:00 pm Local Entertainment: Glendon Hartment

1:30 pm Local Entertainment: Collin Studer

2:00-4:00pm (CD’s) Soundtracks from Movies

2:15 pm Line up for General Parade; 
little ballpark near Pizza Hut and school

2:15 pm Announce Car & Bike Show Winner

3:00 pm General Parade Begins (north of Highway 36 only) 
4:30-6:00 pm Local Entertainment: 
Denise Coursen, Bobby Halter, Erin Jackson, 
Neil Clarkson, and Joy Kiehnhoff ) 
5:00 pm Dinner East Side of City Hall—Meng Family— Chicken and Noodles, mashed potatoes, corn or
green beans, dessert & drink

5:30 pm Greased Pig Contest

6:00-6:20 pm Local Entertainment: Reverend Byrd Family Singers

6:20-7:00 pm Small Ensembles from Community Churches 
(Grand Finale)

7:00 pm Drawings Announcements & Thank You 
Quilt Show Winners 
Cow Patty Bingo
Parade Trophy
Auction: Any unclaimed prizes

8:00 pm Fall Festival Ends 
Carnival Ends