Neponset’s annual Picnic Day celebration will be held Saturday, June 11, in Scott Park

A full schedule of activities is planned for Saturday beginning with a pancake breakfast

sponsored by the Neponset Fire Department from 7-11 a.m. at the Community Building on West Commercial Street. A donation is asked for each breakfast.

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After breakfast, visitors can browse the vendors’ stands in the park or take a pony or mechanical horse ride for $10 provided by TriCo Equestrian Center. Vendors include Crafty As A Fox featuring custom cups, koozies, and other gift items, All About The Kitchen featuring cups, cutting boards, dish towels, etc., and Little Valley Crafts with signs, crafts, decor, and painted fence panels. Other vendors are bringing flea market items and birdhouse gourds. All vendors are welcome to set up in Scott Park with no fee. Vendors can include crafts, farmer’s markets, garage sale items, antiques, etc.

A Kids Fun Run begins at 7:45 a.m. at Scott Park followed by the ninth annual 5K Run at

8 a.m. The entry fee is $15 for the Fun Run and $20 for the 5K. The price includes a T-shirt and pancake breakfast ticket.

At 10 a.m., the parade will begin at the former high school heading south on Harlan

Street, west on Main Street, north on First Street, then continuing west on Commercial Street.

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Bicyclists of all ages are invited to decorate their bikes and lead off the parade. The Neponset Legion will provide the color guard, and Annie Pickering and Chief will be Grand Marshals. All entries are welcomed and can include business entries, politicians, antique cars, all tractors and implements, kids and their pets, walking entries, floats, motorcyclists, golf carts, ATVS, and horses. All entries except the tractors and implements will line up at the old high school at 109 North Harlan Street at 9 a.m. Farm machinery will line up at the former Bluechip Factory on North Harlan Street, also at 9.

The Kewanee High School Marching Boilermakers will participate in the parade.

Immediately after the parade, the band will perform a concert in Scott Park at the pavilion.

Attendees should bring chairs or blankets to sit on.

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A Truck and Tractor show sponsored by the Neponset American Legion will occur on

Commercial Street after the parade. Music will be provided by DJ AMC Sound. There is a $5 entry fee, and a 50/50 drawing. Trophies will be awarded at 2. The Legion will also be selling lunch in the Community Building from 11:00-2:00. For more information about the Truck and Tractor Show, contact Rodney Bennett at 309-530-8147.

A book-stacking contest will take place at the library from 11-12:30. At 1, BINGO

At 5, the Neponset Fire Department will cook and serve pork chops at the annual

potluck dinner in Scott Park. Attendees should bring a dish to share, as well as their own

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The Neponset Historical Society will hold a pie auction at 6:30 at the park pavilion.

Live music will be provided by The Jack Watson Quartet from 8:00-10:30 in Scott Park.

All are invited to attend this free concert and should bring chairs or blankets and their own refreshments.

For more information call Barb at 309-883-1164 or Karen at the Village Hall at