By FRED KRONER
fred@mahometnews.com
The Homer Soda Fest is being revived.
In Mahomet.
An event which began in 2012, but is on hiatus this year, will resume in 2020 at the Mahomet-Seymour High School parking lot on the south side of the building.
A committee of about 10 persons will start meeting later this month to work out details and plan for the event, which Mahomet Area Chamber of Commerce Director Walter Pierce expects to happen on a Saturday in June, 2020.
The exact name of the event has yet to be determined.
There will be no charge for admission when the soda festival relocates to Mahomet.
Besides booths to taste a variety of sodas – as well as areas to make purchases – Pierce said the committee will seek different activities for the event.
“Unique things that will bring people out,” Pierce said.
One confirmed event is a pie-eating contest which will be sponsored by Lucky Moon Pies.
Pierce also anticipates kids’ games, bounce houses, musical guests and others.
“It will be a full-day event,” Pierce said.
Volunteers will be sought to work at the various tasting booths.
Parking will be available at Lincoln Trail, the M-S Junior High School and at the high school, both on the north and west sides.
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Pierce also announced that the Mahomet Farmer’s Market, which was scheduled to end on Friday, Sept. 6, will move inside Sangamon on Main thereafter and will continue throughout the fall, and perhaps longer.
It will be known as the Mahomet Market and will keep the same Friday hours as the Farmer’s Market has had in its second year of operation, 3-6 p.m.
“It will be a place for Mahomet home-based businesses to have a presence,” Pierce said.
He hopes at least eight to 10 vendors will set up on a weekly basis.
There will not be a Farmer’s Market on Aug. 23, which is the first day of the annual Mahomet Music Festival.
