7:00-9:00am Breakfast at Lions Club (featuring Striplings Sausage)
7:30-8:30am Deliver Cook Off entries to Community Center
Vendors open and DJ Martin Mathis begins at 9:00am
9:45am Presentation of Colors, Invocation, Pledge, and National Anthem
10:00am Parade
10:25am Introduction of T-shirt contest design winner
10:30am Tasting of Cook Off dishes at the Community Center
10:30 Empire Dancers perform at gazebo
11:00am Makinsey performs at gazebo
11:30am Grits Eating Contest
12:00pm Grits Toss
12:30pm Corn Shelling Contest
1:00pm Gospel Travelers perform at gazebo
1:30pm Treasure Hunt
2:00pm Grits Pit
3:00pm Empire Dancers perform
3:30pm Makinsey performing at Gazebo
4:00pm Festival ends.