Click here to download the 2010 Lip Sync Entry Form

**Pre Registration is required. All participants must audition in costume. Auditions and pre registration are held prior to Apple Festival. Check back summer 2010 for registration form. Lip Sync event is held on Sunday at 1pm.

Open to young ladies in the Four Flags Community. The Jr. Miss Apple Festival Pageant is for young ladies age 13-15. The Miss Apple Festival Pageant is for young ladies age 16-21. Both pageants offer scholarships to further their education and help with school related events. Pre registration is required.

The Four Flags Area Apple Festival Miss Apple Festival Pageant has been chosen as a recruiter for the 2011 Miss Michigan Teen USA pageant and Miss Michian USA pageant. This pagent then leads the young lady to the Miss USA or Miss Teen USA Pageant. Depending on the age of our 2009 Miss Apple Festival that will determine what pageant she will partipate in September 2010 for the Miss Michigan/ Teen Pageant. They will still compete with the same criteria at the Apple Festival Pageant but will be judged knowing that they will compete in evening gown, interview and swimsuit at the Miss Michigan USA/ Teen Pageant the following year. The entry fees and registration fees will be paid by the Apple Festival as a part of here prize package and we will hold fundraisers over the next year to help us achieve these additonal fees. This is a great honor to the Four Flags Apple Festival to be asked to be a recruiter pageant and this is a great opportunity for the young ladies in the Four Flags Area.

Sponsored by Greater Niles Community Federal Credit Union. Games sponsored by McDonald's Restaurant of Niles and the Niles Service League. Past activities have included a petting zoo, magic show, and a rope bridge built by area boy scouts. Curious Kids Museum was there with hands on activities; Ronald McDonald had a magic show. Free balloons, prizes for the games, free hot dogs, sno cones, cotton candy, chips, and drinks are handed out to the are kids.

Held Saturday September 25th at the Ring Lardner Middle School parking lot. Ages 2-7 Registration is 8:30am - 9am. Race at 9am. Sponsored by hardee's Family Restaurant of Niles & Honor Credit Union.

Click here to download the 2010 Parade Entry Form

Held Saturday September 25th. This 6 block parade features area youth in various activities, schools/home school, groups, costumes, decorated bikes, floats, strollers and wagons.

Entries will be judged on
* Best Use of Theme
* Most Creative Entry
For each of the following categories:
Decorated Bikes, Motorized Vehicles, Wagons and Costumes.

Trophies are given to largest group and the judge’s favorite overall entry.

All Children welcome when accompained by a parent, No animals please.

The parade starts at Eastside Park and ends at the Apple Festival grounds where kids can enjoy free food and games at Youth Day.

Pop the apple seeds to see who can get the seeds the farthest. Can you be the next winner with your name in the paper? Each person has to stand behind the line and flip their seed to see how far they can get it on the mat that measures the length. Wow some of them little seeds can go pretty far...

**Pre registration is required.

Boys and girls must be ages 5-8. This event is held the morning of Youth Day and the winner is chosen by a random drawing at the Apple Festival site. The chosen Prince and Princess will ride the Apple Festival Float in the Youth Parade at 1pm.

Build a Scarecrow, bring it in and let many people see what artistic people can do with some clothes and other items. Each person puts their own imagination into the scarecrows; some are funny, scary, and all are unique. The scarecrows are displayed on site during the Apple Festival.

Saturday and Sunday morning starts out the right way with Breakfast from the Miss Cass St Joseph County Scholarship Pageant Committee while you get to see them busy at work. They make a fantastic breakfast!!

The golf tournament is held at Plym park golf course the Sunday after youth day. It is a scramble format with one drive needed from each member of the team for each nine holes. There is a longest drive and closest to the pin for men and women. Lunch is served after the golf is over with prizes paid at that time. Sign up sheet will be at the golf course. Entry is open to the first 16 teams.

This event welcomes over 200 crafters from the Four Flags Area and all around the country. Come out and enjoy homemade crafts and goods on both Saturday and Sunday the weekend of festival.

In the early days of festival different ways to get the communities involved on a personal level were being thought up by way of friendly competitions, one such competition was the Beard & Mustache Contest. In this contest you can compete against your friends, neighbors & and even family members. This contest has several different categories such as Longest Beard, Longest Mustache, Greyest, Darkest, Lightest and Most Unusual. Overall it’s a contest that’s as much fun to participate in as it is to watch. Prizes have included trophies, t-shirts, gift cards, hats, combs and hair care products from a local salon. This contest takes place Saturday afternoon during the Festival in the Entertainment Tent.

This is an event that started more than ten years ago. The downtown merchants decorate their windows following the theme of the Apple Festival. The merchant with the best design wins a traveling trophy, which can be displayed in their store for the next year. This event has been hosted for several years by Karen Alexander of Coldwell Banker.

The Grand Parade is one of our largest events. It starts at 1:30 pm Saturday in downtown Niles on Second Street. The parade route is about 5 miles long through town, ending at Niles High School. Our community goes all out when it comes time for the Apple Festival Grand Parade. **Pre registration is required. Check back summer 2010 for entry forms.

One of the more competitive events we have at the Apple Festival! This is where you can partner up with your pal and find out just what you’re made of. In this event your on one end of the saw and your partner is on the other, the logs range in size from 4” to 8” around and your jobs are to saw it in a give and take motion in the quickest time the team with the fastest time is declared the winner and has bragging rights for the year cash prizes are awarded and you can even have the piece of the log inked with the time it took to cut it, it yours for the asking. There are several teams in this event; boys & girls, men & women as well as seniors. There’s something for everyone. This is boasted as a Good Old Fashion Contest.

The Biggest Apple Contest is just that. The entrants are from area orchards and devote time to a special tree in their orchard where they have discovered a large apple growing. They will keep an eye on this tree and give it just a little more attention. They will water this tree maybe a little more often all the while watching this one particular apple. Once it gets to just the right size, they carefully pick it and hand deliver it to the Apple Festival where it will be displayed until the time of the judging of the Biggest Apple Contest.

The apples are measured from the stem around the bottom and then back to the stem, as well as around the middle of the apple. Then after the measurements have been taken the Biggest Apple is chosen and the Award goes to the winner.

11th Annual Custom Car Show!

Date: Sunday, October 3rd
Registration: 9:00 - noon
Cost: $10.00
Awards at 3:00 pm
Contact: Sandy Jackson at 269-684-5564.

The Custom Car Show is a big draw during the Festival with over 200 cars to see. This event is held all day Sunday. Trophies are handed out around 5pm. Come enjoy the cars, music and concessions throughout the day. This is a fun, family friendly event. So come on out and reminisce about a car that you once drove or always wanted to.

This contest is just what the name says it is, a Horse Shoe Tournament. It starts with 2 person teams and goes through several elimination rounds where the best keeps advancing to the next round, the winner is declared when the last team is standing defeating all other opponents. Next are the 4 person teams the same thing for them the last team in contention is declared the winner. Then it’s on to singles, person against person right up to the very end this makes for a long day and a lot of shoe throwing. This is fun to watch and even more fun to participate! So don’t miss it, Sunday during the Apple Festival.

This is by far one of the most fun Contests to WATCH. It sometimes gets a little messy! The contest has different age groups that will participate. Boys compete against each other to see who can eat their pie the fastest in the 1 minute allotted time. The pies are all weighed before the start and after the clock is stopped, the difference is… well you guessed it the amount that was eaten then the person with the most pie eaten is declared the winner for that category. Then it the girls turn to compete against each other. This gets pretty competitive to say the least. Next the same goes for the men. Wow you should see these guys eat! Next up is the women. These gals are very competitive. Some nibble at their pie and some just devour it! Sometimes it takes longer to cleanup than it does to hold the contest. After all of the contestants are finished, we invite our Festival Royalty to give it a try and words just can’t describe it. You have to see it for yourself. So come out Sunday afternoon and enter the Apple Pie Eating Contest. Registration is just prior to the contest.

Whoever peels the apple the fastest is declared the winner. Contestants also are judged on the longest continuing peel. Sounds easy right? Wrong! Give it a try Sunday afternoon during the Apple Festival.