2017 Okawville Wheat Festival Parade

ABOVE, TINY DANCERS, girls from Sonya’s Gotta Dance Studio of Nashville marched, danced and cheered their way along the parade route Sunday. BELOW, a “Shrek” themed float led the NCHS Marching Hornets through the parade. “Shrek – The Musical” will be a production of the NCHS Drama Department, with 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday show times and 5 p.m. Sunday show times on November 3, 4 and 5, and 10, 11 and 12.

The 69th annual Okawville Wheat Festival and Agricultural Products Fair was held this Weekend, Friday, September 15, Saturday September 16, and Sunday September 17, 2017. There was tons of food, fun, music and merriment to be had, with the event’s climax, the annual parade, happening on Sunday afternoon. While rains had threatened the area earlier in the day, skies remained clear for the parade, with marchers coming from Okawville, the rest of Washington County, and the larger region as a whole.