Kids Were Hanging Off the Wall at EFES Fall Festival

The goal was to raise $5,000 for East Fannin Elementary School.  The ways to get there were a mixture of highly creative, like tossing Velcro-suited kids onto a wall and picking prizes out of a nose, to reliable standbys, like face-painting and cake-walks.  The largest fund-raising draw was from the premier year of the East Fannin Car Show. Thankfully, for this writer and the parent of an East Fannin student, there were no live goldfish in plastic bags to be won.

East Fannin Elementary School held its Fall Festival on September 30^th.  Shenna Rhymer, EFES Parent-Liaison, the PTO, EFES faculty and staff organized the event.  Families donated 90+ cakes for the cakewalk.  51 car enthusiasts showed their dream machines.  And three men tossed hundreds of kids onto a felt wall for three hours.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jenna Saxon, special education teacher at EFES explained what the money raised will be used for.  The money the PTO raises during the Fall Festival is divided among the teachers to use to buy teaching supplies said Saxon.  Classes like Saxon’s use a tremendous  variety of objects for students to touch and manipulate to develop students’ muscle control and hand-eye coordination.

Even Fannin County High School participated in the festival.  The High Schools art and photography teacher brought a group of students to help with face-painting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A  big draw from families at the school and people outside the county was the Car Show.  Anthony Holloway won the People’s Choice Award, Berry Braden the Principal’s Choice Award and by near unanimous decision Jason Evenson and Josh Lambert won the Kid’s Choice Award, especially since their Jeeps looked the closest to Monster Trucks than the other cars at the show.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many local businesses supported the festival  – Cochran Funeral Home Services, Bargains R US, Home Depot, Ingles, Summit Racing, S&S Painting, Miller Counseling, Maxum Construction, Blue Ridge Insurance, Cohutta Country Store, Swann Drive In, Serenity in the Mountains, Downtown Pizza Company, Black Sheep, Abernathy’s Furniture. Sue’s Cafeteria, The Sasquatch Museum,  Xtreme Printgraphics, L&T Nails, The News Observer, O’Neal’s Family Barbershop, The Sweet Shoppe, The Village Restaurant, Mike’s Trackside BBQ, Morganton Grill, William’s tire, Brother hood Oil, Midas, Pete’s Place, Hometown Diner, El Manzanillo, Fannin Bowling Lane, Ocoee River Diner.