The second weekend of August, Cecilia turns into a mecca for neighbors previous and current.
“Cecilia Day is mainly our annual homecoming pageant,” stated Mike Wimp, president of Cecilia Days.
He stated some residents who’ve moved plan their holidays across the pageant to see folks they do not get to see all 12 months.
Crowd-favorite occasions embrace magnificence pageants on Friday night time and tractor rides and automotive reveals on Saturday, he stated.
The pageant concludes with a expertise present on Saturday night time. This 12 months it has been modified from the same old “Casi Expertise Present” to “Cecilia’s Received Expertise”.
It will likely be a mixture of singing acts to take part that features singing, dancing, and comedy mixed with a few of the skits that had been included within the earlier “Nearly Expertise Present,” he stated.
Friday night time features a barbecue at 6:00 p.m. and Saturday kicks off with a parade at 10:00 a.m. adopted by the normal roast rooster dinner beginning at 11:00 a.m.
“It is an awesome fellowship and alternative to go to folks,” he stated.
Encourage pageant goers to patronize the sponsors they’ll see on indicators all through the pageant as a result of they helped make the occasion a hit.
Kevin Mobley is organizing the parade and stated there was numerous curiosity on this 12 months’s parade.
“I hope it is going to be a very good measurement parade,” he stated.
This 12 months’s grand marshal is Glen Raizor, chosen for his a few years main the rooster cooks for the night dinner, Mobley stated. He’s the keeper of the highest secret recipe. He has additionally been concerned within the “Nearly Expertise Present” at earlier festivals.
Mobley stated the climate forecast for the weekend seems “improbable” and he expects a giant crowd.
“It is nonetheless a rural setting and a homey ambiance,” he stated of the pageant’s recognition. “It is like a household reunion and it brings folks again.”
Kyle Mobley helps manage distributors all through the day and stated there are 30 or so distributors together with crafts, direct gross sales, political cubicles, kids’s video games and bouncy homes, and meals. Meals choices embrace the Four-H ice cream trailer and do-it-yourself desserts from Cecilia Homemakers.
For extra info, name Wimp at 270-763-7062 or seek for the Cecilia Ruritan Membership on Fb for a listing of contact numbers for members answerable for every side of the pageant.
