{"id":36194,"date":"2024-09-20T10:12:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=36194"},"modified":"2024-09-20T09:04:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T14:04:22","slug":"planning-continues-for-the-black-gold-walnut-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/community\/planning-continues-for-the-black-gold-walnut-festival-20240920","title":{"rendered":"Planning Continues For The Black Gold Walnut Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alton, Mo. \u2013 <\/strong>The Walnut Festival is almost here. Final preparations are coming into place, and there is still room for a few more vendors. With beautiful weather in the forecast, a large crowd is expected. Here are the final details.<\/p>\n

Friday<\/h3>\n
\"Run\"
Run, cruise in<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Friday evening begins with a cruise-in<\/a> at 5 p.m. This is free to everyone and definitely family-friendly. Following that is the 5k and 1 mile<\/a> run\/walks. An update:<\/strong> Families of four or more need only pay $25 for the entire family to participate. If you have three or fewer participating, you continue to pay the $10 per person. They will have inflatables and bounce houses for children on the square. There will be live music and street dancing after the run.<\/p>\n

Saturday<\/h3>\n

Saturday begins early for vendors arriving to set up booths and their wares. Although the Walnut Festival begins at 10:00 a.m. with the singing of our National Anthem, people entering items for the baking and woodworking contests need to submit their entries earlier, as early as 9:30 a.m. The choirs and band perform until 11:00 a.m. The Walnut Idol Contest follows.<\/p>\n

\"Walnut
Walnut Idol Contest flyer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Additional announcements and the quilt raffle<\/a> will be held at noon. Between 1 and 2 p.m., the Vicki McGee Band will perform, followed by Jerry Bone and Friends. The festival will close with Jumpin Jack.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, vendors will sell their wares all around the square.<\/p>\n

Special Notes<\/h3>\n

The chamber booth will be right next to the stage. This is important to those submitting contest entries.<\/p>\n

Shirts will be available to purchase at the festival. Winners of the chamber contests will be announced before the Jumpin Jack performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Walnut Festival is almost here. Final preparations are coming into place, and there is still room for a few more vendors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[243,224,225,229,250,220,201,264,226,205,263,206,284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36194"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36503,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36194\/revisions\/36503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}