July 3, 2017 - The 2017 What-A-Melon Festival t-shirts have arrived and are available for purchase at Shelby Savings Bank main branch, Farmers State Bank main branch and Shelby County Chamber of Commerce. All shirts are $15 each.
The What-A-Melon Festival starts Thursday, July 6th with opening ceremonies at 5pm and the Largest Watermelon contest weighing in at 6pm. The festival runs through Saturday, July 8th.
Jason Balkcom, President of the Rotary Club of Center, revealed the winner of the 2017 What-A-Melon Festival logo contest to be Kayarra Emerson, an 11th grader at Center High School, at the club's May 16th meeting. It's her design which incorporated the festival theme with the Rotary wheel in the middle that is on all the festival t-shirts!
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