59th Annual Grand Parade Video
If you missed this year's Grand Parade, here is a condensed version for you to enjoy.
Nut Sweepstakes Winners
2013 Black Walnut Sweepstakes
Winners
1st Place - $75.00 Cash Name: Charles Webb
2nd Place - $40.00 Cash Name: Lois Sloan
3rd Place - $25.00 Cash Name: Garrett Workman
2013 Hickory Nut Sweepstakes
Winners
1st Place - $50.00 Cash Name: Lacy Mitchell
2nd Place – $30.00 Cash Name: Kacie Mace
3rd Place – $20.00 Cash Name: Garrett Workman
Kid's Day Parade Winners
Division 1: Non Motorized Wheels
1-1 Strollers
1st “The Devil” Christopher Bauer
2nd None
3rd None
1-2Wagons
1st “On My Way to my First Black Walnut Festival Car Show” Cash Bentley Nichols
2nd “Leaving the Frontier for the Black Walnut Festival” Ian Greathouse, Lorelai Truman and Nathan Harley
3rd “Minnie & Mickey” Andrew Harris and Maddison Bowers
1-3 Peddled Kiddie Cars/Tricycles
1st None 2nd None 3rd None
1-4 Skaters
1st None 2nd None 3rd None
1-5 Bicycles/Scooters
1st “Thomas the Tank Engine” Remy Smelto
2nd “Scurrying through the Festival” Cason Webb
3rd None
Division 2: Walkers
2-1 Most Unique
1st “Spike” Ichiro Ng
2nd None
3rd None
2-2 Prettiest
1st “Prettiest Witch” Addison Carper
2nd “Rainbow Fairy” Bayleigh Burdette
3rd “Princess” Aiko Ng
2-3 Ugliest
1st “Granpa Cratchett’s Long Lost Brother” Taylor Godfrey
2nd “Princess Zombie” Katheryne Bauer
3rd “Witch” Shyanne Godfrey
2-4 Clowns/Super Heroes/Cartoon Characters
1st “Winnie the Pooh” Michael Bauer
2nd “The Wizard of Oz” Sara Beth Oneil, Owen McClanahan, Tyler McClanahan, Elijah James Brannon
3rd “Super Girl” Nevaeh Burdette
2-5 Most Creative
1st “Punk Rocker” Curtis Price
2nd None
3rd None
Division 3: Child Driven Vehicles
3-1 Low Powered/Kiddie Cars
1st “The Old Fashioned Model T” Joey, Angela, Zachary, Clarissa and Patricia Kyer
2nd “Mr Scarecrow’s Happy Harvest” James Smith
3rd “The Little Cow is Running Away” Leah Carpenter
3-2 High Powered Vehicle
1st “Nanny’s Little Cowpokes” Gabby & Graci Engle
2nd “All Revved up for the Black Walnut Festival” Abby Nichols, Sophie Nichols, Tommy Miller and Jack Miller
3rd None
Division 4: Pets
4-1 Most Unique
1st ”Horse” Annie Oakley Starcher
2nd “Spartacus” Abby Jarrell
3rd None
4-2 Prettiest
1st None
2nd None
3rd None
Division 5: Clubs, Groups, or Units
5-1 Marching Troops
1st “Star Blazers Twirlers” Camdyn, Ally, Cadyn, Olivia, Emily & Kimber
2nd None
3rd None
5-2 Clubs, Units, Groups, Organization
1st Gymfiniti – Walkers & Tumblers
2nd “Roane County Little Raiders”
3rd “Rocking Around the Black Walnut Festival” WV Kids First Stars
Division 6: Floats
6-1 Small Floats
1st “Land of Oz – There’s No Place Like the Black Walnut Festival” Timmy & Nate Cronin, Linsey Carper, Chase & Kadin White
2nd “The Wizard of Oz” Carly, Carson, Kiley & Levi
3rd “Henry’s Fork Harvester 4-H Club”
6-2 Medium Floats
1st “Ronald McDonald House – The House that Love Built” Lakin Drennen, Tena Gandee, Brianna & Dakota Deel and Lauren Harper
2nd “EMS for the Cure” Roane County Emergency Squad
3rd “Let’s Pretend to Be Just Me” Shaylin, Adam and Brionna Springston, Savannah Dickerson, Cami Shaffer, Ava Burwell
6-3 Large Floats
1st “Reedy Rocks” Reedy Elementary School
2nd “Jesus is our Life Savior” Keffer Church
3rd “Patch Circus Comes to Town” Patch
If you placed and didn’t receive your trophy, please contact Dusta Tanner-Mace at 532-5115.
Parade Float Results
2013 Grand Parade Winners
School, Church, Civic
1st Place – Faith Baptist Church
2nd Place – Cub Scout Pack 437
3rd Place – 4-H Clover Bud’s Challengers
Factory/Commercial
1st Place – Queens Float – FNB
2nd Place – Miss Roane County/Miss Teen BWF
3rd Place – Wal-Mart
Local/Commerical
1st Place – Miletree Center
2nd Place – Golden Delicious Festival
3rd Place – McDonald’s
BWF Grand Parade Line Up
Use this map to see where your number for the parade as you lining up.
Here are the parade line up numbers. Find your number here and come to the parade line up ready to go.
1. AUTO SPENCER CITY POLICE
2. AUTO ROANE CO SHERIFF
3. AUTO WV STATE POLICE
4. WALKER NATIONAL GUARD COLOR GUARD
5. AUTO MAYOR WILLIAMS
6. BAND ROANE CO HIGH SCHOOL
7.
8. AUTO ALLIE COLE
9. FLOAT BWF QUEEN
FNB SPONSORED
10. AUTO WV STATE TREASURER
11. AUTO SECRETARY OF STATE
NATALIE TENNANT
12. BAND MEADOW BRIDGE HIGH
13. FIRE SPENCER/ ROANE FIRE ENGINE 51
14. AUTO CAPITO FOR SENATE
15. AUTO SENATORS CARMICHAEL AND HALL
16. AUTO STATE AUDITOR
GLEN B GAINER
17. AUTO JULIE WARDEN
MISS WV INTERNATIONAL
18. AUTO MRS RIPLEY 4TH OF JULY
18A. FLOAT MILETREE
19. BAND CALHOUN COUNTY HIGH
20. AUTO TONY CAVALIER
21. FLOAT WV STORM ALL-STARS
22. AUTO CASEY LASSITER
WV OIL AND GAS FEST QUEEN
23. AUTO ATTORNEY GENERAL
PATRICK MORRISEY
24. AUTO GINO’S PIZZA AND SPAGHETTI
25. BAND WILLIAMSTOWN HS
26.
27. AUTO WIRT CO FAIR LITTLE
MR. & MISS
28 AUTO WV KIDS ON FIRST
29 BAND WIRT COUNTY HIGH
30. AUTO MOONEY FOR CONGRESS
31. AUTO 2013 MT STATE FOREST
FESTIVAL QUEEN
ASHLEY HOUCHIN
32. AUTO DIRY QUEEN CURLY TOP
33. AUTO CHARLOTTE LANE CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS
34. WALKER RCHS DANCE CLASS
35. COMM WALMART
36. AUTO WALMART TRACTOR
TRAILER
37. FIRE SPENCER / ROANE
SQUAD 51
38. BAND GILMER COUNTY HIGH SCH
39. FLOAT 4-H CLOVER BUDS
40.
41. AUTO MARK SERGEANT
MILITARY VEHICLE
42. BAND HERBERT HOOVER HS
43. FIRE WALTON VOLUNTEER FD TANKER 33
44. FIRE REEDY VOL FIRE DEPT
45. AUTO JOHN PUTNAM
1962 FORD FAIRLANE
46. AUTO 1982 PETERBILT TRK
JOHN SOMMERVILLE
47. FLOAT ROANE CO HUMANE SOCIETY
48. BAND NICHOLAS COUNTY HS
49. AUTO NEMESIS SHRINERS
49A. AUTO BENJ-KEDEM SHRINER
CLOWN CAR
50. AUTO WALTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
VOLLEYBALL
51. AUTO NICHOLAS COUNTY 4TH OF
JULY JAMBOREE
52 BAND POCA HIGH SCHOOL
53.
54. FIRE GANDEEVILLE HARMONY
VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT
55. AUTO 1951 SUPERC FARM ALL
CLARE MOORE
56. AUTO 1951 JOHN DEERE
JAMES MCDANIEL
57. GRAND PARADE MARSHALS
58. FIRE CLOVER/ROANE
RESCUE 21
59. BAND LINCOLN CO HIGH SCH
60. FLOAT FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH
61. AUTO CHELSEA HICKS
CALHOUN QUEEN FLORA
62. AUTO “THOSE JEEP GUYS”
63. AUTO 2013 MISS MOTHMAN
FESTIVAL JR MISS QUEEN
ANGIE GORMAN
64. AUTO TEEN MISS MOTHMAN
FESTIVAL PRINCESS
65. BAND HUNTINGTON HIGH SCH
66. FLOAT MCDONALDS
67. COMM MISS ROANE COUNTY
FLOAT
68. AUTO MISS WV ROAD KILL FEST
69.
70. BAND BROOKE HIGH SCHOOL
71.
72.
73.
74. FLOAT CUB SCOUT PACK 437
75. AUTO T&A COUNTRY ROADS CLUB
9 CARS
76. AUTO JOHN CUMMINGS
1997 GMC
77. BAND PT PLEASANT HIGH SCH
78. FLOAT GOLDEN DELICIOUS ROYALTY
79. AUTO HOPE BRICK
WIRT CO FAIR QUEEN
80. AUTO B SAUNDERS
WEE MISS FIRECRACKER QUEEN
81.
82.
83.
84. FIRE SPENCER/ROANE LADDER 51
85. BAND ELKINS HIGH SCHOOL
86. FLOAT RIPLEY TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH
87. AUTO ASHLEY BOGGS
MISS RIPLEY 4TH OF JULY
88. AUTO ASHLEY CONLEY
WV STATE GRAND SUPREME QUEEN
89. BAND WINFIELD HIGH SCHOOL
90. AUTO 1928 MODEL A FORD
BUTCH FIELDS
91.
92.
93. AUTO CHARLES RUCKER
94. AUTO WALTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
FOOTBALL TEAM
95. FLOAT ROANE YOUTH BASEBALL
96. BAND RIPLEY HIGH SCHOOL
97. AUTO WADE RANSOM RHODES
MR. FIRECRACKER
98. AUTO PAYTEN HUMPHERY
LITTLE MISS FIRECRACKER
99. AUTO ROGER FISHER
100. HORSE MADISON PAXTON
101. HORSE K & K FARMS
102. HORSE SHY RUCKER
103. HORSE CASSIE RUCKER
104. HORSE SANDY RUCKER
105. HORSE KATLIYN PROCTOR
Cake Contest Winners
2013 Baking Contest Winners
1st Place
Black Walnut Carrot Cake
Marie Lanek
Ravenswood, WV
2nd Place
Black Walnut Fantasy Cake
Leigh Rice
Gay, WV
3rd Place
Black Walnut Cheesecake
Carl Barker
Spencer, WV
Winning Recipe
Granpa Krachet Thursday Show Times
Granpa Kratchet will be hosting shows today on Court St at 3pm, 630pm and 830pm.
The shows are free to attend.
Junior Black Walnut Bowl
The Spencer Middle School Yellow Jackets knocked off the Walton Middle School Tigers last night in the Junior Black Walnut Bowl. The final score was 24-16.
Queen's Coronation Tonight
The 59th Black Walnut Festival Queen will be crowned tonight at 7pm at the Spencer Middle School auditorium.
Band Competition Schedule
59th Black Walnut Festival
Band Competition Schedule
Saturday October 12th, 2013
3:10 Star Spangled Banner (RCHS Band Students Bethany Higginbotham and Brett Miller)
Class C
3:15 Calhoun County High School
3:30 Williamstown High School
3:45 Wirt County High School
4:00 Gilmer County High School
4:15 Herbert Hoover High School
Class B
4:30 Nicholas County High School
4:45 Tyler Consolidated High School
5:00 Poca High School
5:15 Lincoln County High School
5:30 Majorette Preliminary Judging (Intermission)
Presentation of Queens
Class A
6:00 Huntington High School
6:15 Brooke High School
6:30 Point Pleasant High School
6:45 Scott High School
Open Class
7:00 Elkins High School
7:15 Winfield High School
7:30 Ripley High School
Host Band
7:45 Roane County High School
8:00 Majorette Finals
8:15 Presentation of Awards
Chestnut Ridge Winery Offers Tastings During Festival
Join Chestnut Ridge Winery in the Court House Square this Thursday, Friday and Saturday for the Black Walnut Festival. They will be setup downtown and at their Winery on Chestnut Ridge. Visit them to take part in the Black Walnut Wine Trail.
With proof of purchase from each winery, you will receive a wine glass during your final purchase.
For more information contact them at 304-927-4831, 304-377-5721. chestnutridgewinery@gmail.com
Grand Parade Marshals
This year, the West Virginia Black Walnut Festival is proud to honor a group of local heroes as Grand Parade Marshals. Five local men share this honor as knights of the French Legion of Honor for their service in the U.S. Army during World War II in France.
These men-Denver Gandee, Walter Criss, Denver Wallbrown, Donzel Walbrown and Holly Eagle Jr-have been recognized by the French government for fighting and risking their lives in France during the war.
Established in 1802 by Napoleon, the Legion of Honor recognizes military service to France. World War II veterans who served in France qualify to be decorated as a knight, or chevalier degree.
Please join us in recognizing these men and their service during the 59th Grand Parade on Saturday, October 12th.
Livestock Show Schedule
LIVESTOCK SHOW SCHEDULE
October 9 - 13, 2013
WEDNESDAY – October 9
5:00-9:00 PM Deliver animals to RCHS Barn
(5-6 pm hogs, 6-9 pm goats, calves, & lambs)
THURSDAY – October 10
11:00 AM Livestock Show
(Calves, Lambs, Hogs, Goats)
FRIDAY – October 11
11:00 AM Showmanship Contest
SATURDAY – October 12
5:00 PM Livestock Buyer’s Dinner
6:00/6:30 PM Livestock Sale
SUNDAY – October 13
10 AM- 1:00 PM Barn clean-up
Turn in record books
Thank you letters – complete address, postage, & not sealed
SHOW ORDER
Calves – S & H
Lambs
Hogs
Goats
Pancake Breakfast Returns to BWF
Love and Kindness Church will host the annual Black Walnut Festival Pancake Breakfast on Friday and Saturday mornings from 7-10 during the festival in the court house square.
Pancakes and sausage are made on the griddle.
Pancakes will be available with or without black walnuts along with sausage for $6. Coffee, Milk and Juice will be available. Take your breakfast to go or eat under the tent .Potter Coming to BWF
Mona Goddall will be demonstrating pottery during the Black Walnut Festival. She will be set up behind the Courthouse, near the food tents.
Learn more about her via her Facebook Page.
Please Thank Our Sponsors
BWF Merchandise
New BWF Merchandise is now available at the City of Spencer Municipal Building. Products will be available there until the start of the festival then they will be available in the information booth during the festival.
Black Walnut Festival Begins Next Week
Appalachian Mountain Specialty Foods To Offer Samples During BWF
Appalachian Mountain Specialty Foods, of Spencer, WV, will be offering samples of their award winning products during the 59th WV Black Walnut Festival. Stop by their booth located beside the Spencer Antique Mall on Main St to sample such products as Wilted Lettuce Dressing, Zest Sauce and several other items.
Recently, Appalachian Mountain Specialty Foods won awards at the WV State Fair for their Copper Head Bloody Mary Mix and Sweet Britches Salad Dressing. Greg and Veronica Stover, owners of AMSF are proud to offer products that are West Virginia made and grown and invite you to sample this product during the festival.
BWF Book Signing Features Spencer's History
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (September 24, 2013)
Huntington author to sign new book on the history of sports in West Virginia at the Black Walnut Festival
Huntington
author, Bob Barnett, will sign his new book, Hillside Fields: A History
of Sports In West Virginia (West Virginia University Press, 2013) at
the Black Walnut Festival in Spencer on Friday, October 11 from 11 to 3.
Barnett will be located in front of the Courthouse.
Hillside
Fields: A History of Sports in West Virginia has the Spencer girls’
state basketball story at the beginning of the chapter on the history of
girl’s and women’s’ sports in West Virginia. The Spencer tournament
founded in 1919 was one of the three first girls’ state basketball
tournaments started in the United States that season. Barnett and
Spencer historian Steven Cooper will also sign copies of their
co-authored Goldenseal magazine story about the Spencer girls’
tournament.
Hillside
Fields provides a broad view of the development of sports in West
Virginia. Of course the stories about Jerry West and Mary Lou Retton,
and “We are…Marshall” are familiar to everyone. But the little known
stories of the development of sports from the first golf club in America
at Oakhurst Links to the Greenbrier Classic; from the first girls’
basketball championship in 1919 to post-Title IX; from racially
segregated sports to integrated teams; and from the days when West
Virginia Wesleyan and Davis & Elkins beat the big boys in football,
help to define the uniqueness of being a West Virginian. Hillside Fields
explains how major national trends and events, as well as West
Virginia’s economic and political conditions, influenced the development
of sports in the state.
Roane and Gilmer County athletes, coaches,
and teams appear throughout the book. Normantown’s state championship
basketball championship victory over Logan in 1945 and the major role of
Glenville State College (now University) in the founding of the West
Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference basketball tournament are
both featured.
“I tried to cover all of the major athletes
and events like Jerry West and Mary Lou Retton,” said Barnett. “But
because West Virginia is a state of small cities, small towns, and even
smaller villages may of the local legends are not widely known and in
danger of fading from memory. I tried to capture as many of those as
possible in Hillside Fields because they are what help define the
character of West Virginia.”
Barnett graduated from Marshall
University in 1965 and returned to Marshall to teach in 1972 after
earning a PhD from Ohio State University. He taught sport history
classes in the Division of Exercise Science for 35 years.
Barnett’s
first book Growing Up in the Last Small Town: A West Virginia Memoir is
about coming of age in the tiny northern panhandle town of Newell, West
Virginia in the 1950’s. He and his wife, Lysbeth, have two children and
six grandchildren. They now divide their time between homes in
Huntington and Sarasota, Fla.
For more information, contact the author:
304-523-3901 Huntington, WV
Or by e-mail at barnettink@aol.com