The Griggsville Apple Festival

09/01/2024

Attention former GAF Queens: we would like to put a window display together showing some of the crowns/tiaras our queens wore throughout their reigns. Crowns will be kept inside a building (we are currently looking for the appropriate window). We would like to collect the tiaras the week of the festival and give them back to you the following week. If we could display your tiara could you please contact Trena Martin, Raegan Stauffer or Ashley Miller so we can make plans to meet with you.

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08/30/2024

It’s Labor Day weekend so you know what that means!! Jars have been placed in businesses in Griggsville and Perry in order for this year’s Apple Festival Queen candidates to raise money for the community scholarship.

Support your favorite contestant by adding your change and/or your dollar bills to their jars. The contestant who raises the most money will win a scholarship in the amount of the money collected in all of the jars up to $500.00. If more than $500 is raised a second scholarship will be awarded.

08/29/2024

08/29/2024

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Pre-registration for the Griggsville Apple Festival’s Magnificent Mile Parade is now OPEN! Please see details for this event below.

THEME: Lights! Camera! Apples! 📽️🎞️🎥

DATE: Saturday, September 21, 2024

TIME: 1:30pm - FFA Antique Tractor Parade
2:00pm - Magnificent Mile Parade

To pre-register FLOATS, BANDS, WALKERS, or VEHICLE entries:

🍎 Email Jill Kunzeman at [email protected] or call 309-264-3785.

OR

🍎 Go to www.griggsvilleapplefestival.com and fill out the parade entry form.

To pre-register HORSES to be ridden in the parade:

🐎 Contact Christine Henthorne at 217-370-2398 with your entry.

To pre-register TRACTORS for the FFA antique tractor parade:

🚜 Contact GPHS FFA Advisor, Ashley Scranton, at 217-430-1234 or email at [email protected] with your entry.

🛑‼️ PLEASE NOTE: If you do NOT pre-register your entry, you will need to bring THREE LEGIBLE COPIES of your entry’s bio to parade sign-in which will be read by festival announcers during the parade.

🍎🍎 Parade registration will close on September 18th.

🍎🍎🍎 Questions 👉 Jill Kunzeman at 309-264-3785 or [email protected].

🍎🍎🍎🍎 We look forward to hearing from you with your parade entry!

08/29/2024

Thank you to the following businesses for their support with the upcoming Griggsville Apple Festival Car & Tractor Show!

08/29/2024

The 2024 Griggsville Apple Festival baby contest will take place on Saturday, September 21 at 10:30 am at the festival stage.

All babies aged 0-24 months are eligible to compete for the age division awards. When choosing our overall Apple Festival Prince and Princess only babies residing within the original Griggsville school district will be eligible.

Registration wil open on September 2 and pre-registration is strongly recommended. To register please contact Raegan Stauffer at 217-430-4542.

08/29/2024

The Apple Festival would like to give a huge thank you to the the Boy Scout Troop 17 and their fathers for the new stage flooring. These generous and hard working people worked in the sweltering heat to remove the old and replace the flooring. They have done an excellent job and we appreciate them so much. If you see any of these men out and about town please tell them thank you for all of their hard work. The festival can not thank them enough. Great job guys!!

Also, a huge thank you to our main man, Jim Eatock for assisting the scouts by raising the steel bracings so the flooring could be replaced underneath them. Thank you Jim.

08/26/2024

🍎 This year the Griggsville Apple Festival Committee will be selling chances to win a gift basket worth over $1,000!

🍎 Gifts included are listed below, and there may be more to come as we get closer to the festival.

🍎 Tickets will be sold one for $5.00 or five for $20.00.

🍎 Tickets will only be sold at the festival beginning Friday (9/20) through Saturday (9/21).

🍎 The winner will be drawn Saturday evening during the final drawings of the night.

🍎 We can’t thank the local businesses enough for their support of our festival and we hope you support THEM in return!

🍎 Good luck!

08/26/2024

There will be NO Apple Festival meeting Tuesday September 3. We will be meeting on Tuesday September 10th at 6:30 at City Hall.

08/19/2024

The Griggsville Apple Festival Car & Tractor Show is just a month away! 😳

Come one, Come ALL!! 🎉🎉

Let’s see all of those Cars, Trucks, Jeeps, Tractors, Motorcycles, or whatever you may have! We have a “Special Interest” this year along with a Club Participation Award!

Don’t forget to load up those kids’ pedal cars and tractors and bring them down to show off! There are 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place trophies for each division!

🛞 There will be hot wheel races! 🛞

Tell all of your friends! Remember the festival is always the 3rd weekend in September!!!

We can’t wait to see you … 😎

08/19/2024

A reminder that the Apple Festival meeting is scheduled for tomorrow evening, Tuesday, August 20 at 6:30 PM at City Hall. Event chairmen are requested to attend and provide updates on their events. We encourage all committee members and community members to join us.

08/18/2024

The Griggsville Apple Festival Committee is seeking volunteers to make homemade apple pies for their Apple Stand this year on September 20th and the 21st. Pies can be dropped off uptown at the stand before 2pm on Friday and noon on Saturday. Each volunteer that makes a pie will be put into a drawing for a $25 gift certificate to Ackles Apple Orchard. If you would like to volunteer to make a pie please contact Lori Brown at 217-577-3977.

Also if you would like to make an Apple pie for the Apple pie Contest those pies need to be dropped off by 10 am on Saturday morning.

08/17/2024

Attention patrons: we are approaching the final week for t-shirt sales. Please submit all orders and payments by Sunday, August 25 to ensure delivery prior to festival week. Refer to the price and size guide in the accompanying image. Proceeds from t-shirt sales will augment the scholarship fund. Contact any pageant contestant, Queen Jillian, or crew member to place an order. Alternatively, you may reach out to us directly. Thank you for supporting our young women.

08/15/2024

The Griggsville Apple Festival’s annual CAKE & COOKIE AUCTION is coming into view! This event is the festival’s main fundraiser, as well as a fundraiser for various organizations and groups within our community. We hope you plan to participate!

Auction details and rules are listed below, but please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions. Thank you in advance for making this event so successful!! We know it will be a great!
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🎂🍪 Saturday, September 21st

🎂🍪 Drop-off entries from 9a-11a

🎂🍪 Include LEGIBLE registration form (Registration forms will soon be available at FNBG and at basket turn in on 9/21 at Brad Lipcaman’s office.)

🎂🍪 Auction at 6:30pm on 9/21

08/13/2024

Apple Pie 🍎Baking Contest
Saturday, September 21st 2024

-Pies must be delivered to the Apple Festival Stand located north of the stage starting at 9am. -Judging will take place at noon.
- Winners will be announced prior to the Parade.

✅Rules for entry!!! 🥧

- Pies are to be in disposable pie pans.
-All pies must be homemade including crust and filling.
-Pies will be judged on appearance, crust, filling and overall taste.

ADULT DIVISIONS 💥
Bakers- 19-31
Bakers-32-60
Bakers 61+

YOUTH DIVISION 💥
Bakers- up to age 18

Each division 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive prizes and bragging rights!

Winning pies 🥧 will be auctioned during the cake and cookie 🍪 baskets.

Remaining pies will be donated and sold by the slice at the Festival Apple Stand.

If you have any questions , please call or text
Sam Kessinger 217-883-1666.

08/05/2024

Reminder that there will be an Apple Festival meeting this Tuesday August 6, at 6:30 in the evening at City Hall.

07/19/2024

We are looking forward to another great Car and Tractor Show! Can’t wait to see your wheels! 🛞

07/15/2024

The July Apple Festival meeting will be held tomorrow evening, July 16th at 6:30 at City Hall. This will be our last once-a-month meeting. We will have 2 meetings in August and 2-3 in September. This is it Griggsville, we’re coming up on the home stretch and Apple Festival 2024 is almost here.

07/04/2024

Our reigning queen, Jillian adds her experiences.

After my older sister won the title in 2015, it is something I had dreamed of doing too. After my two years of competing, I have gained so much confidence, speaking skills, and best of all so many new friendships. I have also earned multiple scholarships. Overall, it is such an amazing experience! Even if it’s out of your comfort zone, you’ll have new sisters to help you along the way. Competing in the Griggsville Apple Festival pageant is so much fun, and you’ll gain many skills!

There is an information meeting this Sunday, July 7th at 4:30 in the Griggsville Park. Our pageant is open to any young lady in the GP school district that is either in high school or is homeschooled at a high school age. Please come see what we are about.

07/04/2024

Jennifer Bingham explains her thoughts on how the Apple Festival helped her.

My time as an Apple Festival Queen is one I often look back on fondly. I highly encourage anyone who's even a little bit interested in running, to go for it! I know from experience that you gain so much more than a pretty crown (though that is a nice bonus). You gain interview skills, learn how to interact with others in a professional way, and get to experience what it's like to be a role model to others and represent our town positively. Even if you don't walk away with the crown, you still get to know a group of amazing girls, and of course, Trena, the one who works so hard to make all this possible. Being a part of the Apple Festival pageant is an experience I wouldn't trade for the world, and I look forward to seeing its positive impact on others continue.

07/04/2024

Our most recent addition to the Apple Festival Queen Alumni Group, Mariska Sheurman, tells us what she gained by competing.

Growing up, I had always wanted to be a part of the “big girl” pageants. I grew up watching all the girls compete on the Apple Festival stage, hoping one day I could do the same. When I did compete for this pageant, I wanted to build poise, confidence, and speaking skills. Miss Trena helped me break open my shell, and help me find a side of myself I didn’t know was possible.
I highly recommend joining this pageant if you want to learn valuable life skills, and have an amazing support network. Miss Trena and her crew not only helped me to prepare for the pageant and during the competition, but also throughout my time as queen.

07/04/2024

Reagan Stauffer’s encouragement to join the pageant:

My Apple festival queen response….

I was on the fence about competing since I had experienced several losses already. However, with it being my senior year I knew I would regret not competing. Little did I know I would be crowned 30 years almost to the day from when my mom was crowned, and I would get to reign for 2 years…thank you COVID.

From competing, I have gained experiences I never thought possible such as helping with the pageant, emceeing the pageant, a mentor and friend from Trena, and an overall understanding of what truly goes into the festival each year.

07/04/2024

Lanie Daniels shares with us her reasons for entering the Apple Festival pageant which led her to becoming one of our queens.

I chose to compete in the Miss Griggsville Apple Festival pageant as I had watched the pageants in previous years, and had dreamed of being up there myself one day. Being in the pageant for two years definitely helped me with my confidence in public speaking, as well as in interviews. This has helped me as an adult when interviewing for jobs. I learned life skills that continue to have an impact on me to this day. I highly suggest joining this pageant, which, in my opinion, has the best pageant director around! Trena was there to help throughout the practices and the pageant itself, plus she was the best help throughout my rein.

07/04/2024

We have asked several former Apple Festival Queen Pageant contestants why they competed and what they gained by competing.

The first young lady to respond is Sydnee Brown.

I competed because I lacked confidence speaking in front of large crowds and I wanted to put myself out of my comfort zone. After competing I felt more confident in speaking in front of people, and I also got the privilege of forming relationships with all of the girls. A benefit of competing is that you will gain self confidence and self discipline while also having so much fun!

The information meeting for this year’s pageant is this Sunday at 4:30 in the Griggsville Park. If you are a Griggsville-Perry resident and freshman through senior aged please join us.