AVERY TOMATO FESTIVAL

AVERY TOMATO FESTIVAL 2009

ONE DAY EVENT

Saturday, JULY 4^th

Downtown Avery, Texas

(On US Highway 82 sixteen miles southeast of Clarksville, Texas)

Celebrating our HISTORY, once known as the

“Tomato Center of Northeast Texas”

where the theme is “Tomatoes”

“OUR HISTORY”

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OUR 2008 SPONSORS

Without whom this event would not have been possible

THANK YOU!

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EVENTS INCLUDE:

Craft booths, Food vendors, HIP HOP AMUSEMENT RIDES and GAMES, Eastern Star Breakfast, CCRRC-Concerned Citizens for Red River County Barbeque, Roamin’ Oldies Antique Car and Truck Show, Kevin Smith Farm Rodeo and Calf Team Roping Championships, Horseshoe Tournament, Tomato Festival Queen Pageant, The STA-BIL Lone Star Lawnmower Racing Series Points Race for 2009, Most Beautiful (Real) Dressed Tomato Contest, Best Tomato Hat Contest, Rhino Rock Climbing Wall and Snowie Kiosk, Avery Mud Bog 4-Wheeler Races 2009, Softball Tournament, Tomato Contest (Red & Green) Largest, Smallest, Ugliest, and Most Perfect, Salsa Contest (Fresh & Cooked), Farmer’s Tomato and Vegetable Market, Little Miss and Little Mr. Tomato Contest, Avery History Exhibit, Best Red Head Contest, Music on the Tomato Shed Pavilion all day Saturday, Tomato Festival Parade, Games, Face Painting, Airbrush Tattoos, Street Dance on Saturday Night, HUGE Fireworks show!!

CONTESTS:

MOST BEAUTIFUL TOMATO CONTEST! . A contest that Defies Description! Here is how it works: Take an ordinary tomato , and dress, adorn, or decorate it as if it were an entrant in a beauty contest or headed to a costume party. ( It helps if you think of your tomato as a small round person who is just ripe to get dressed up and go out on the town!) And Remember, there may be 50 ugly Tomatoes, but there is only 1 Beautiful one!

THE UGLIEST TOMATO CONTEST We love UGLY tomatoes. The uglier the better. Look in your garden and find a wonderfully weird ( but edible) UGLY tomato and head for the Tomato Festival to enter it in the soon to be coveted title of “Ugliest Tomato”. And if somehow you can’t find an ugly tomato, come downtown to see all the amazingly ugly tomato entries for the contest.

The BIGGEST and LITTLEST Tomato Contest (both Red & Green ) Who says size doesn’t matter. Well, this time it does! Bring us your largest or tiniest tomato you can find and compete for the braggin’ rights to the most gargantuan or ittiest bittiest tomato in TOWN!

WOOHOO! THE FIRST ANNUAL RED HEAD CONTEST! NO registration needed, just show up with your locks (hair). Categories for women, men, kids and for those (artificially enhanced redheads) that’s not real. Not to be missed! Paint you face red and your hair green, make yourself a RED HEAD or Tomato Head!!!!!!!!!!

STREET DANCE on Saturday Night

Saturday with “DURANGO”

TOMATO FESTIVAL QUEEN Pageant

Friday, JULY 3, 2009

6:00 p.m.

Avery ISD Cafetorium

Tomato Queen Pageant Application for 2009

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Entertainment:

The “STA-BIL Lone Star Mow Down Show Down”

Mower Racing to speeds of over 80 mph!

BEGINNING AT 2:00 PM on Saturday, JULY 4, 2009

LAWNMOWER RACING SERIES

POINTS RACE FOR 2009

Racers will be here from all over the country

THE CUTTING EDGE

“LIVE TO MOW, MOW TO LIVE”

IT’S FREE SO BRING YOUR CHAIR AND ENJOY!

LONESTAR MOWER RACING ASSOCIATION

The U.S. Lawn Mower Racing Association (USLMRA)

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SPONSORSHIP/PARTNERSHIP

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“THE ROAMING OLDIES ANTIQUE

CAR & TRUCK SHOW”

APPICATION

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Please Support the local Tex-Ark Antique Auto Museum in Texarkana, USA

217 Laurel Street

Texarkana, Ark. 71854

870-772-2886

TOMATO FESTIVAL PARADE on Saturday, JULY 4, 2009

10:00 a.m. Downtown Avery

AVERY MUD BOG RACES 2009

Beginning at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, JULY 4, 2009

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LIVE BROADCAST WITH “Mike & Tex”

Golden Oldies

From KOOL 95.1, TEXARKANA

KEVIN SMITH FARM RODEO AND

TEAM ROPING CHAMPIONSHIPS

Kevin Smith 903-490-0817

Home: 903-684-5496

Robinson Arena off Hwy 82

Behind the Avery 7-11

MUSIC:

FEATURING:

THE AVERY COMMUNITY CHURCH CHOIR

Performing a July 4^th Program

“THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA”

7:00 p.m.

Avery ISD Gym

FREE TO THE PUBLIC

Becky Braun

Gospel at it’s best from Avery, Texas

Becky is currently on top of the Christian Country Gospel Music Charts and her music played on radio stations all over the country.

RICKY RUSS

Gospel music at it’s best from Abilene, Texas

MIKE POWELL

Gospel Music Comedian

“DURANGO”

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DURANGO... plays music that makes you want to dance! We strive to perform a wide variety of music. Everything from 1940's country swing and old time country standards to Elvis Presley, 1960's- 70's R&B/Motown tunes and Rock'n Roll classics to current country radio popular playlists. Durango is a group of guys that have kept folks dancing and taping their toes for over twenty five years, and had a BLAST doing it! Originally the band performed Gospel music in the early 1980's and by the mid 80's began playing area clubs as the Southern Seven Band and later were known as The Wild Horse Band. From the beginning, the core of the band has always been guitarists and brothers, Gerald (a.k.a. "Jerry") and ("Big") Ed Stephenson. Keyboardist and vocalist, Mark Storey joined the Stephenson brothers in 1986. In 1996, Nashville recording artist, Rob Huggins stepped up on stage to add his distinctive vocal sound to the mix. The Durango sound was raised to an entirely new level in 2004 when the regionally well known drummer /percussionist, Dennis Morgan joined the group in 2004. DURANGO rocks on with the best variety of dance music in the region bar none! Check out DURANGO on the web.