Meal a Day Menu for June 11th-15th
Meal A Day Menu June 11th – June 15th Monday Chicken Fried Chicken Mashed Potatoes Providence Vegetables Roll Tuesday Spaghetti and Meatballs English Peas Garlic Toast Wednesday Tater Tot Casserole Corn Squash Tossed Salad Thursday Sliced Ham and Dressing Sweet Potatoes Green Beans Roll Friday Chili Cheese Dogs Fritos Pickle...
Monday Forecast
20% chance of showers and thunderstorms; High: 92, heat index value of 98; Low: 74; Wind: South, southwest 10-15 mph, gusting to 20
A Spectacular Night with the Hot Air Balloon Glow: 2018 Dairy Fest
The Balloon glow is always a crowd favorite of the Dairy Festival. This year viewers enjoyed the “Spider-pig” and “Ladybug” as well as many other beautiful hot air balloons. The hot air balloon pilots amused spectators as they lit up their balloons to keep time with the music which played in the background. It was an amazing show that could only be described as spectacular. Several pilots talked with onlookers...
2018 Dairy Festival Parade: Party till the Cows Come Home
The Dairy Festival Parade matched this years Dairy Festival Theme of “Party till the Cows Come Home” as each float was decorated to resemble many different sorts of parties: Tea-parties, Luau’s, slumber parties, masquerades, and much more! All the floats were creative and had intricate designs. As usual, many of the floats threw candy to the delight of the children in the crowd. The Dairy Museum gave out stress...
2018 Junior Dairy Show
At the 2018 Junior Dairy Show 26 Local FFA and 4H students in 3rd grade through high school competed to see who raised the best calves this year. Only calves born September 1st or after of last year were eligible to compete. The top 15 placed calves will be sold to the top bidder and the students receive the money. Many of the students try to buy their calves back since they forge strong bonds over months of caring for them. This...
Jeffery Eugene Dixon
Funeral services for Jeffery Eugene Dixon, age 59, of Sulphur Springs will be conducted at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, June 14, 2018 at West Oaks Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Dwight Drake officiating. Interment will follow at Reilly Springs Cemetery with Glenn Dixon, Ken Blanton, Robert McKenzie, Jordan Dixon, Chuck Bond, Larry Golightly, and Bobby Lee Simms serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be Justin Bann, Jeff Sanderson,...
Chillin’ at the Ice Cream Freeze Off
Friends of all ages visited at the Ice cream freeze off while enjoying an exciting assortment of ice cream flavors. This year’s freeze off brought several hundred people out to the Shannon Oaks Church Lawn where the ice cream cooks had set up in the shade. There were a variety of flavors for all types of folks. Fruit flavors included Banana, Plum, and Peach. A highly talked about flavor included Vanilla Dr. Pepper. Others included...
2018 Bobby McDonald Milking Contest
The Annual Bobby McDonald milking contest yielded one of the most productive years to date. The total amount of milk milked for the day was over 160 ounces. Parents milked a total of 99.69 ounces and the contestants milked a combined total of 60.48 ounces. Dairy Festival Queen, Jaci Reed, demonstrated to the new Dairy Festival Queen contestants the best way to milk a cow while the judges set up their table. This year the contestants...
2018 Dairy Festival Ice Cream Freeze-Off Winners
This Year’s Ice Cream Freeze off was a huge success. The judge’s results were prompt and highly anticipated. Lezley Brown, CEO and President of the Chamber of Commerce, explained that “The board of directors [for the Ice Cream Freeze-Off] decided to expedite this year’s ice cream awards ceremony by not offering a people’s choice award.” Ice cream flavors ranged from classic vanilla to dill pickle...
