Watermelon Festival Seed Spiting Contest

HOPE- Dave Phillips headed the seed spitting contest at the 43rd Annual Hope Watermelon Festival. Although it was hot, contestants tried their best to spit the watermelon seeds from one end of Farmers Bank and Trust Stage to the other. The competition was broken into three age divisions. The contestants winning from the youngest division and oldest division then competed to see who got spit the furthest, with the younger contestants spitting from a closer distant. Terra Newsome of Hope was the overall seed spitting campion.