{"id":377,"date":"2007-08-16T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T16:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/08\/16\/the-mill-81607\/"},"modified":"2007-08-16T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T16:17:08","slug":"the-mill-81607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/08\/the-mill-81607\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mill: 8\/16\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Big pull<\/strong><br \/>\nA lot of folks just know White Cross as the home of Lloyd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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 mol\u00c3\u00a9. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little sweet, but it grows on you.)<\/p>\n<p>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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be at the White Cross Recreation Center for the annual tractor pull.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The pull, which is the main way the Rec Center supports itself and its work for the community, is a two-day event. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of kids).<\/p>\n<p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re 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.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re looking for an honest old-fashioned night of family fun, let us recommend Friday night, which is one of this area\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finest cultural events. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153powder puff\u00e2\u20ac\u009d competition where you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see wives and daughters and granddaughters revving up the Farmalls and Deeres. And there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the pedal pull \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a real hoot \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that has everyone cheering as the kids pedal their toy tractors in hopes of taking home the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>The night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s capped off by a tractor procession of local farmers.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u2122cue and dogs, but one word of caution \u00e2\u20ac\u201d an enormous array of homemade deserts await you at the concession stand.<\/p>\n<p>The center is across from Antioch Baptist Church on the Old Greensboro end of White Cross Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big pull A lot of folks just know White Cross as the home of Lloyd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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 mol\u00c3\u00a9. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little sweet, but it grows on you.) If you want to spend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}