The Cedar Springs Lions Club has hosted the Lumberjack Supper prior to the Queen’s pageant every year since 1941. The supper consists of ham, fresh side pork, boiled potatoes, and all the trimmings. Dinner served on Saturday, September 29, from 5-7 p.m. at the Cedar Springs High School cafeteria.

PreK-8th Graders can earn two tickets to ride the carnival rides during the Red Flannel Festival by reading books.

The rules are simple. Pick up a log at the Cedar Springs Public Library on the corner of Cherry and Second St. Read 3 hours and get your parent or teacher to initial and get a coupon for a free carnival ride or a bag of popcorn during Red Flannel Days. Read 6 hours and get 2 coupons.

Cash in your log during open hours at the CS Library until Red Flannel Day. Logs are redeemable on Red Flannel Day from 10am-2pm at the Friends Book Sale on Main Street across from the Kent Theatre.

It’s Red Flannel time! Yes, the 73rd Red Flannel Festival—Deeply Rooted in Tradition—will take place on Saturday, October 6, 2012, and these young ladies began practice this week, to be crowned the next Red Flannel Festival Queen and Court. The scholarship pageant takes place Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. in the Cedar Springs High School Auditorium. Advance tickets are $10 at the Cedar Springs Library, $13 at the door.

The contestants for this year’s pageant are:  Front row:  (L to R) Kendra Coons, Jordyn Nichols, Nicole Matzke, Aiyana Plank, Elizabeth Bullen, and Cynthia Karaba.  Back row: (L to R) Elizabeth Moore, Alysha Chaney, Kendra Weidenfeller, Brittney Robinson, Michaela Burnett, Dani George, Hannah Ringler, and Kellie Spahr.

Contributions are now being accepted for 2012 Red Flannel Queen and Court Scholarship Fund. Donations can be made by sending a check, payable to the RF Queen Scholarship Fund, to PO Box 43, Cedar Springs, MI, 49319. Or, use the new on-line donation feature via PayPal at www.redflannelfestival.org, under the Queen’s Pageant Tab! The pageant will feature an opening eclectic number with professional dancers from Sleeping Dog Yoga, as well as entertainment from traditional Irish dancers of the Claddagh Clan Performing Dance Group.

Pictured are last year’s prince and princess: Prince Diego Caballero and Princess Penelope Belk.

The annual Red Flannel Prince and Princess contest will take place next Wednesday, September 26, at the historic Kent Theatre in downtown Cedar Springs at 6:30 p.m. Come on out and see the littlest Red Flannel royalty get crowned! Free admission and free refreshments. The prince and princess are chosen through a random drawing of ticket entries.