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Remember to Bring Canned Foods To Easley's Festival Tonight

Canned food will be given to SHINE (Stopping Hunger in Nearby Easley) and each item of non-perishable food you donate will enter you into a contest!

Remember to bring non-perishable food when you head to Easley's Children's Fall Festival tonight.

The festival starts at 4pm in Old Market Square and will run until 8pm, according to Scott Buckhiester with Dunburk's Premier Events, which plans and manages city events.

“We'll have inflatables, we'll have a magician, and all sorts of games,” Buckhiester said. “There will be a big costume contest with four different age groups, infants to adults.”

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Check out the music in the city's beautiful amphitheater during the event.

There will be a grand prize drawing for a flat screen TV. The drawing will benefit SHINE (Stopping Hunger in Nearby Easley).

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“To enter the drawing, bring a non-perishable food item, which will be given to SHINE,” Buckhiester said. “Each item you bring gets you a ticket for the drawing.”

From 4:30 to 6:30, the Easley Downtown Merchants will be open for trick-or-treating, he said.

The Pickens County Fire Chiefs Association will have their Smokehouse at the festival, and the Greenville Road Warriors ice hockey team will be meeting and greeting fans.

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