Strawberry festival returns to Crestview

CRESTVIEW — Strawberries are coming to downtown Crestview next weekend.

The 2nd annual Strawberry Festival will take place 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 28 on Woodruff Avenue between Main Street and Wilson Street.

“We’re really excited. We have over 30 vendors already,” Sandra Wilson, Main Street Crestview Association program manager, said.

Wilson said they are only taking vendor applications for those who make their products locally, to try to highlight local vendors.

“We have a lot of fun stuff,” Wilson said. “It’s a lot of different things, handmade soaps, birdhouses, jewelry, purses. There’s a big variety.”

There will also be live music and activities for kids such as balloon twisting and face painting. And of course, there will be strawberries.

Wilson said the event serves as a way to get people into the downtown area to check it out.

“We want people to kind of discover downtown at the same time,” Wilson said. “We want them to go to Tom’s Ice Cream Place and to our restaurants downtown and to Main Street Eats, to those food trucks.”

This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: Strawberry festival returns to Crestview