Summit will celebrate a quarter century of welcoming autumn when the town celebrates its 25th annual fall festival on Saturday.
Downtown streets will be filled with flea market items, antiques, crafts, original art, food, games, an open car show sponsored by AutoZone and sidewalk sales by Summit merchants.
The festival begins at 8 a.m. and continues until 5 p.m.
The Summit Chamber of Commerce is the sponsor.
For information on how to enter the car show, call Jake Gazzo at 341-2013.
Another featured event is the Summit Rotary Club’s 37th J.I. Hurst memorial Pancake Breakfast at the Summit Fire Station. Jim Allen will be using his special recipe. Breakfast starts at 6:30 and ends at 10. Tickets are $4.
Summit’s third annual Fall Festival Beauty Pageant was held Sunday at Southwest Mississippi Community College. Winners from all eight divisions of the pageant will be featured at the fall festival.
Booth space is still available for $40 or $50 with electricity.
Food booths are $100, but civic or church food booths are $50.
Festival organizers say the local residents and merchants combine to make the event an annual success.
“It could not be done without the volunteer staff, including longtime residents Nell and Rex Cowart and their family, who have helped get the festival together for each of its 25 years, and even longer, when it was the June Jubilee,” said volunteer Gina Smith.
Smith said two blocks of Robb Street will be blocked off to traffic, and police officers will direct traffic on Highway 51 through town.
