Pecan Festival Queen’s Scholarship Pageant

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The 2017 Pecan Festival Queen’s Scholarship Pageant will be held Saturday, Sept. 23, in the auditorium at Groves Elementary, 3901 Cleveland Ave., at 7 p.m. Tickets purchased at the Groves Chamber of Commerce office are  $10 for adults and $5 for students through 12th grade. At the door, tickets are $12 and $6.

Contestants in the Queen’s Division compete for scholarships. The Queen wins a $1,000 scholarship, the first runner-up gets a $750 scholarship and second runner-up gets a $500 scholarship.

The date of the 2017 Groves Pecan Festival has been moved back one week and will now fall on the last weekend of October (Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 26-29). 

The 2017 Groves Pecan Festival Parade will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28. Line-up begins at 8:30 a.m.