Elkin, NC – A skeleton group held the Great Pumpkin Weigh-off in 2020 as the primary part of the Pumpkin Festival was dropped yet the current year’s occasion returned solid. In excess of 90 merchants selling food, shirts, handcrafted creates, and more lined Main Street just as Farmers Market merchants on Standard Street. The roads were loaded with people coming to partake in the merriments, welcomed by beautiful fall temperatures, especially during the morning.

“This was the best group we have found in years,” said Misty Matthews with the Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce. “We feel with a couple of changes like the additional Kid Zone that HDK Ranch set up and some food merchants on Standard St., Dunk Tank and Ax Throwing, Greg Hall and his Llama, performers on Main St. it adds some additional life to the occasion. With different celebrations counterbalancing individuals were prepared to get invest some energy and cash.”

Matthews said merchants at the celebration announced they were “exceptionally satisfied with the groups and the items and administrations that sold in a one-day occasion.”

The current year’s new Dunk Tank truly shook things up with celebration participants.

“Our Dunk Tank was a hit. Emilio Lopez of State Farm Insurance, Aaron Wisenheimer of Edward Jones, and Wilkes County Commissioner Eddie Settle of Uline Embroidery, worked everything out such that many diversions for the local area to dunk these local area pioneers,” said Matthews.

The monster pumpkins, gourds, and watermelons didn’t disillusion all things considered. The Yadkin Valley Pumpkin Festival Weigh-Off is a broadly endorsed site such countless cultivators from the East Coast carried their organic products to authoritatively be shown up classifications including pumpkin, watermelon, and bushel gourds.

Helping with the honors introductions during the weigh-off were three sovereigns addressing different spaces of the state. Junior Rhododendron Queen Alyssa Hemphill and Rhododendron Queen Taylor Lloyd, addressing the Rhododendron Festival in Bakersville, and Young Miss Blueberry Perry Kim addressing Pender County partook in Saturday’s festival.

“We began going to the Pumpkin Festival around six years prior,” said Bob Hensley, business chief of the Rhododendron Queens association. “It’s been an extraordinary celebration. I’m happy to see it’s developing and making an extraordinary rebound after the COVID closure. We’re simply tickled to be here.”

Hensley said the Rhododendron Festival held in Bakersville, around two and half hours from Elkin, happens every June and praises the 600-section of land normal rhododendron gardens on Roan Mountain at 6200 feet rise.

“We’re a humble community and little province yet we’re enthusiastic about everything rhododendron,” he said.

Miss Blueberry Perry Kim put in a fitting for her locale of the state in Pender County also, illuminating Pumpkin Festival attendees that N.C. is the 6th biggest blueberry maker in the country.

“I need to urge you to check the mark when you go shopping for food since it must be NC agribusiness,” she said.

The current year’s pumpkin classification incorporated a state record-breaking pumpkin tipping the scales at 1803 pounds.

Chamber President David Steelman assessed that in excess of 10,000 guests partook in the celebration this year. Steelman said that the monetary and advertising for Elkin and the Yadkin Valley were extraordinary. The occasion was initially begun over 20 years prior to assist with bringing individuals downtown that regularly never arrive.

“We insubordinately accomplished that this year,” said Steelman.

Chamber pioneers likewise communicated on account of the board of trustees, volunteers, and backers that made the occasion conceivable.

“We were appreciative for the patrons in light of the fact that without them there were such countless new things and new roads of promoting would not have been conceivable,” said Matthews. Backers of the Yadkin Valley Pumpkin Festival included Cool Springs Meat Processing, Darnell Pressuring Washing, The Mustard Seed Boutique, Emily Barr Andrews Attorney PLLC, Explore Elkin, First National Bank, Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital, GB Energy, Frontier Natural Gas, Surry Communication, Soyworx, Duke Energy, Weyerhaeuser, CMS Insurance, Life Store Insurance, Surrey Bank, Mazzini’s, Basin Creek Realty, Gentry Family Funeral Home, DC4Denistry, Chatham Rehab/Nursing, Garanco, Mountain Valley Hospice, SHAC, and Surry Yadkin Membership Corp.