[ By NANCY SWAIN ]
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Buy a wrist band for $5 and taste as much soup and chili you can up and down Main Street between Smith’s Market near Avenue B up to Wade Patton Insurance
at 6th Street. There are 47 entries this year, so you won’t go hungry. There are also eight different bands scheduled to play along Main Street for your entertainment along the way! When you’re done tasting, vote for your favorite. Wrist band/voting booths will be located on each block.
During the Downtown Soup and Chili Festival, Eagle Communications will be located in front of the Sleep Shoppe & Furniture Gallery asking everyone who comes by to vote for their favorite decorated chair in our “Decorate-A-Chair Affair”! (In the past, we have hosted the Ugly Couch Contest, but this year we decided to let people with creativity have a chance to win the prize.) The winner will be selected by popular vote and will win a $500 shopping spree from the Sleep Shoppe & Furniture Gallery! Plus, we will provide a cookie and a bottle of water for the first 750 people stopping by … because who doesn’t need a sweet treat with all that chili and soup, right?
The Downtown Soup and Chili Festival is Saturday, Oct. 25, from 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. (or until the soup runs out) and sponsored by Downtown Hutchinson, First National Bank of Hutchinson, The Hot Spot, Smith’s Market, Berridge IGA, Jackson Meat, Dollar Sense, PrairieLand Partners, and Stutzman’s Refuse.
HERE ARE THE BEFORE PHOTOS OF CHAIRS ENTERED INTO THE CONTEST.
