Great Plains Cotton Gin, located 1.25 miles east on Highway 37, will host tours hourly from 9 am to 4 pm. Owned and operated by Jimmy and Glenda Ross, the Ross Honey Company is Oklahoma’s largest honey plant. The Ross Honey Company will hold tours from 9 am to 4 pm at 109 Belle Street, one block north, and then one block east, of Main Street.
Many of the traditional honey festival events will continue this year. The Minco Chamber of Commerce announced the date recently, and a program of events can be picked up around Minco, at businesses including the Blossom Time Shops. The kickoff event will be hosted by the Minco Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by First National Bank. 7, beginning at 7 am with the Shawnee Mills Pancakes & Sausage Breakfast at First United Methodist Church. The Honey Festival will be held throughout the Town of Minco Saturday, Dec. “The honey bake-off has been a part of the Honey Festival since the very first one,” the chamber official said. The Senior Center itself will be raffling off a $100 gift card for Walmart. “We’re going to have food to sell here also. “We’re also going to be open at the Senior Citizens Center,” she said. The contest is not the only attraction at the center though. Three anonymous judges will decide who the bet ter bakers are. There are two entries allowed per contestant. “Everything needs to be in by 11 am,” Madden said. in Minco.īeth Madden is a coordinator for the bake-off. The contest will take place at the Minco Senior Center, located at 221 Northwest Main St. The honey bake-off has some simple rules that must be adhered to if a contestant hopes to win the long-standing Honey Festival tradition. near city hall, and the contest will begin at 12:30 p.m.
The chamber picks up all the cost on that so it is something we offer free.” It’s really a fun way to spend an afternoon here, as well as letting them see how strong they are by pulling these weights on the tractor. We actually have had two of our own Minco students who have gone to the national level and one of them won a couple of years ago. From there, if they place, they get to go to the national level which is at North Dakota.
“It is a sanctioned kid’s tractor pull,” said one Chamber official, “which means that they enter and if they place, they can go to another sanctioned tractor pull at the state level. One traditional Honey Festival event is the kids’ tractor pull which is a more serious competition than one might expect. Saturday’s Honey Festival will feature a number of attractions, from tours of the local honey plant, cotton gin, and wind farm, to the annual honey bake-off, chance to meet Santa, carriage rides, and much more.
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