'Fall into Readin' festival Oct. 27

Friday, October 18, 2013
The Culbertson Public Library, housed in a neighborhood bungalow, will be replaced by a modern structure in downtown Culbertson when funds are raised for the $450,000 new library project. (Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Gazette)

CULBERTSON, Nebraska -- "Friends of the Culbertson Library" plan a "Fall into Reading" festival to help meet a challenge that will increase the group's fund to build a new library in downtown Culbertson.

Organizers plan the festival Sunday, Oct. 27, from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m., in the Community Building on the Hitchcock County fairgrounds in Culbertson. Proceeds from the games and chili cook-off will help meet the challenge made earlier this year by the Robert and Janette Hunt Community Fund (of Great Plains Communications) -- if the community can raise $50,000 by Dec. 31, 2013, the family fund will donate $25,000.

Library supporters have raised about $20,000 toward the challenge, head librarian Cindee Wagner told Lesa Tines of the Hitchcock County News newspaper.

Fun at the festival will include kiss the pig, Halloween costume and best-decorated pumpkin contests, pumpkin bowling, face painting, a kiddie train, a jump house, hayrack ride, snow cones and cotton candy, a bake sale and a money machine.

Tines writes that a $10 entry fee will give contestants a chance to show off their cooking skills in a chili cook-off.

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