Central Illinois' Best Labor
Day Celebration is
now THREE BIG DAYS
Monday
- 6-10am Lion's Club Breakfast
- 6:30 - Rat Race 5k Run/walk Register for all races at the Visitors Center on East Progress St beginning at 6:30am
- 8am - Rat Race 1 Mile Begin - East Progress St
- 8:15am - Rat Race Walkers begin
- 8:30am - Rat Race 5k Runners Begin
- 9:15am- Kids "Chase the Cheese" Fun Run -
Progress Street
- 9am -Festival opens with merchants sidewalk sales; pony
rides, petting zoo, Colonel Klink's Inflatables, strolling clowns,
in Artie's Party Zone;
flea, craft, and food vendors downtown. -
- 10am Monster Truck Rides - all day in Cheesy Hollow
- 10am - Rat Race Awards Ceremony
- 10am -4pm Amish Buggy Rides - all day North of Visitors Center
- 11am Free Balloons from 1st National Bank at Artie's Party Zone
- 11am Charity Dunk Tank- HS Principal Gary Alexander- Arties Party Zone
- Noon - Charity Dunk Tank- Miss
Arthur, Alicia Dickerson
- Arties Party Zone
- 12:30pm - Free 60 foot long Sub Sandwich - sponsored by Country Cheese N' More of downtown Arthur - served at the Main Cheese Tent in Cheesy Hollow
- 1pm - Charity Dunk Tank - Miss Arthur - Arties Party Zone
- 1pm -Live Stage entertainment - Jacob Dow - vocalist
- 1:30pm -Dritte Kase Bedinen - our 3rd Free Cheese Giveaway begins at the Main Cheese Tent - The lasr of the 300 pounds of cheese and crackers fill the bellies of hungry cheese lovers. Be sure to get your share
- 2pm - Charity Dunk Tank - Grade School Principal Buck Condill - Arties Party Zone
- 3pm -Live Stage entertainment - Twang City Country Music - Gazebo Stage
- 3pm - Charity Dunk Tank- Arthur Firemen - Arties Party Zone
- 4pm - Charity Dunk Tank- Arthur
Firemen
- Arties Party Zone
- 5pm Festival Closes
Schedule times change a bit all the time. Come early and spend the day. Last minute information at the Arthur Welcome center at the North end of the Festival and also at the Cheese Tent at Illinois and Vine St in the center of the festival.
