6/29 - Watermelon Festival - Alamo

The City of Alamo Event & Beautification Committee is planning its Inaugural Watermelon Festival to be held on Saturday, June 29, from 11am to 7pm in Alamo’s Downtown Main Street Central Park Square located in the heart of Alamo on Business 83 between 9th Street and 7th Place.

Alamo’s Central Park Square will be filled with all sorts of watermelon contests and activities including kiddy rides, a carshow, a beer garden, food and vendor booths as well as live entertainment on our newly constructed Central Park Stage. A formal dignitary ribbon cutting ceremony will kick off the event and inaugurate Alamo’s new outdoor stage.

- excerpted from http://www.alamotexas.org/index.asp?Type=B_PR&SEC={F9BF63D9-8003-4D29-8B73-3138645E1581}&DE={56ADCE64-218F-40D8-8486-EBB18EBCC6FF}

- update from the Monitor:
 http://m.themonitor.com/news/local/article_5289fb76-d3c2-11e2-b726-001a4bcf6878.html

An events committee has been planning the event, set for June 29, which will include a morning 5k run, a carnival, vendors, a car show and watermelon eating, seed-spitting, throwing and rolling contests.

It will also include a dedication of the stage mid-morning and music all afternoon and evening on it with a headliner show by Lubbock-based conjunto band The Hometown Boys.

Visit their Facebook event page for more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/414378088659986/?ref=22