| Date: | August 18, 2018 |
| Time: | 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM |
| Venue: | Meadowbrook Center |
| Organizations: | Eastmont Community Foundation, Fort Vause |
| Description: |
Mountain Valley Charitable Foundation presents the 11th annual EastMont Tomato Festival on Saturday, August 18, 2018 at The Meadowbrook Center in Shawsville. Event Schedule: • 8:30- am: Registration for Events • 10:00 am: Official Opening • 10:00 am: Tonic (Band) • 10:30 am: Tomato Royalty Pageant • 10:45 am: Closing of Entries for Contests • 11:15 am: Magician Mark Fuller • 12:15 pm: Stonehouse (Band) • 12:15 pm: TomatOlympics begins • 1:30 pm: Fort Vause (Band) • 2:15 pm: Presentation of Awards for TomatOlympics • 2:30 pm: Tomato Eating Contests The free family friendly festival features contests for the tomato art and recipe, as well as competitions for Biggest, Ugliest and Best-Tasting tomato. You can also don your best tomato-themed outfit to compete in the ever-popular Tomato Pageant, and belly up to become the Tomato-Eating champion. In addition, the festival features: • Great food (fried green tomatoes, BLTs, pizzas, tomato sandwiches, tomato biscuits and more); • Live music by local bands • A magician and games • Arts, crafts and foods from regional artists and farmers • And the TomatOlympics, a series of tomato-themed challenges along our crazy obstacle course. (Just for the fun of it, kids get a chance to throw squishy tomatoes at the Human Tomato Target.) This year’s festival is being presented by Red Sun Farms, a leader in the true greenhouse vegetable industry, owning and operating farms in all three NAFTA countries: Canada, Mexico and the United States including nearby Dublin. The EastMont Tomato Festival is a program of Mountain Valley Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works to enhance the quality of life in eastern Montgomery County, Virginia. To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/JNWU0W5.jpg. For more information, please visit: http://eastmonttomatofestival.org or https://www.facebook.com/EastMontTomatoFestival/ or |