(Holtville Carrot Festival is underway).....It officially started last Friday with the Coronation/Citizen of the Year Banquet.

Festival activities began Wednesday with the Cookery contest. Today they kick it up a notch. The Cookery Contest continues with the Adult Chef Division at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. The contests are hosted by the Women's Club of Holtville. But, also today is the first day of the Carrot Carnival Medway on Holt and 6th Streets. It starts this afternoon and continues until 10 tonight. The midway continues Friday, along with the Carrot Festival Kick-off concert featuring the Table 5 Band on Holt Avenue from 7 to 9:30. There will be live music, beer garden, great tacos and entrance is free to the public.