This weekend begins a new season as fall begins on Sunday and one Pottawattamie County City is ready to celebrate a day early. The 6^th annual Crescent Fall Festival will kick off on Saturday morning at 8am with a pancake breakfast. Kris Miller, a member of the Crescent Optimist, says at 10am a speech contest will be held with a chance to win a scholarship. Miller says “That’s for a $500 scholarship for juniors and seniors in high school and freshmen in college.”

Throughout the day you can get a guided tour of the beautiful Loess Hills. Miller says “The garden grove participates with the group that goes to the lavender farms. We have the Honey Creek goat farm where they make goat cheese.”

The tours run from 9am to 3pm. The rest of the Crescent Fall Festival includes a parade at 11 along with food vendors, a cake walk, sand volleyball tournament and a charity fund raiser baseball tournament. The Crescent city park will host fun for the kids as free games and bounce houses will be set up. Miller says a raffle is planned with a chance to win your choice of meat. “For a processed half beef, half hog or three processed chickens and it is a dollar a ticket.” The winner will be drawn at 9pm. The Crescent Fall Festival finishes with a parking lot dance featuring Toy Boxx playing a variety of country music.

(Joel McCall/KNOD)