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YouTube stars The Peterson Farm Brothers to perform at Heritage Days
McCOOK, Neb. — Only about a week remains for vendors to sign up for a spot in Norris Park or for organizations to sign up to participate in the parade for Heritage Days 2022. The deadline is September 30 for those two items. Heritage Days begins Wednesday, Oct 5.
Chamber President Molly Smith is organizing the last-minute details for the community-wide celebration which is promising to be five days full of opportunities to connect with friends, families, and associates. As usual, the opening ceremony will be the MNB Bank Mixer on Wednesday, where Heritage Days Royalty will be announced.
Thursday night will bring a Sehnert Challenge Community Celebration hosted by McCook Community Foundation Fund and the Norris Institute from 6 to 9 p.m. at Norris Alley. At 6:15 p.m., the chamber will have a ribbon cutting to formally recognize the Norris Alley space.
Bright and early at 7 a.m. on Friday morning, the Norris Institute Breakfast will take place at McCook Christian Church. Tickets for breakfast will be available at the chamber office.
Saturday’s parade will begin at 10 a.m. The vendor show and bandshell entertainment will take place throughout the day at Norris Park. Bandshell masters of ceremonies will be Ginger ten Bensel and NTV News’ Chris Wagner.
There will be special entertainment in the bandshell at 3 p.m. on Saturday.
The Peterson Farm Brothers are three brothers from central Kansas who create social media content to promote agriculture. Their YouTube videos have received over 50 million total views, and they have a large online following. The brothers grew up and still work on a family farm near Assaria, Kan. with their parents and sister. All three brothers attended Kansas State University. Greg graduated in 2013, majoring in Agricultural Communications and Journalism. Nathan graduated in 2016, majoring in Agriculture Technology Management. Kendal graduated in 2018, majoring in Agribusiness.
The Peterson Farm Brothers' online content consists of music and video parodies of popular tunes such as AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long” and Walker Hayes’ “Fancy Like,” but with a definite agricultural twist.
At 4 p.m., Kinship Pointe is sponsoring an “I’m a Little Cutie” baby contest. The contest is open to all area babies, and there will be three age groups with prizes awarded for three categories in each age division. Pre-registration is required by October 5 at 4 p.m. For more information, contact Judy McCune at judy@kinshippointe.com.
Other Saturday events include the Bison Alumni Golf Tournament, Elevate Wellness 5k & Kids Fun Run, George Norris Historic Site Presentation, and Heritage Acres’ and The Coppermill’s “Beer, Brats & Burgers.”
Just completed last week, the chamber’s first quarterly meeting was deemed a success with 52 members in attendance for a taco bar provided by Taco John’s. Tyler McCarty, the owner of Mac’s Drive-In and chamber board member, spoke to the group about the importance of working together as a team to build the community. He emphasized the importance of taking a long-range view, versus short-term thinking. Chamber Chairwoman and owner of Citta’ Deli, Jade Lesko provided a “state of the chamber” update.