Chickn Festival, Cruisin Ride coming to Claxton

Cooking, cars, bicycling and footrace make busy Saturday

Wing Eating Contest winner Evelyn Carpenter basks in applause during the 2010 Evans County Chick'n Pick'n Festival. Carpenter, from Mount Vernon, is expected to return Saturday to defend her title. The only woman competing with 11 men last year, she consumed just one ounce more chicken than the runner-up. - photo by LINDA BLALOCK/Special

Web Wing Eating Winner — Wing Eating Contest winner Evelyn Carpenter basks in applause during the 2010 Evans County Chick'n Pick'n Festival. Carpenter, from Mount Vernon, is expected to return Saturday to defend her title. The only woman competing with 11 men last year, she consumed just one ounce more chicken than the runner-up. - photo by LINDA BLALOCK/Special

If you cook or eat chicken, enjoy car shows, run or ride a bicycle, folks in Claxton have something planned for you Saturday. The Evans County Chick’n Pick’n Festival & Classic Car show is one event, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. on the Evans County Wildlife Club festival grounds. That is in the Claxton-Evans Industrial Park at Hagan, the town adjacent to Claxton, westward on U.S. Highway 280.

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