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The Mill: 8/16/07

Posted on August 16, 2007 by Staff

Big pull
A lot of folks just know White Cross as the home of Lloyd’s Grocery, which still has a free air hose, and Fiesta Grill, one of the finest restaurants ever located in a steel building. (Try the enchiladas molé. It’s a little sweet, but it grows on you.)

If you want to spend a pleasant evening in White Cross or if you live there and want to catch up with a couple hundred of your neighbors, they’ll be at the White Cross Recreation Center for the annual tractor pull.

The pull, which is the main way the Rec Center supports itself and its work for the community, is a two-day event. It’s held Friday, Aug. 17 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 18 at 6 p.m. Admission is $7, with kids under 12 free (that’s a lot of kids).

If you’re a big tractor fan, the night to go is Saturday, which can get as loud and roaring and full of whoops as anything at the State Fair.

If you’re looking for an honest old-fashioned night of family fun, let us recommend Friday night, which is one of this area’s finest cultural events. There’s the “powder puff” competition where you’ll see wives and daughters and granddaughters revving up the Farmalls and Deeres. And there’s the pedal pull — a real hoot — that has everyone cheering as the kids pedal their toy tractors in hopes of taking home the trophy.

The night’s capped off by a tractor procession of local farmers.

Of course, there’s ’cue and dogs, but one word of caution — an enormous array of homemade deserts await you at the concession stand.

The center is across from Antioch Baptist Church on the Old Greensboro end of White Cross Road.

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