First Farmers Bank & Trust's Amboy branch puts a lot of effort into the Amboy Fall Festival each year. This year, they chose to go a different route by partnering with the K-ID's BMV Program to offer free ID card to kids. Overall, they had approximately 100 kids sign up for an ID card and were busy for the entire 3 hours that the BMV Program was there.
First Farmers also participated in the parade, the dunk tank, and helped out at the car show. The parade started on Saturday morning and had 36 entries. The Parade Marshal this year was Kori Brown, from the IROK Foundation. This year's car show, the 3rd annual, was a huge success-with more entries than they've had in the past two years. Pam Camden, branch manager of the Amboy branch, watched her granddaughters, Braeleigh, Mariah, and Katy Jo participate in the Little Miss Amboy contest in each age group. Mariah won in the 5-7 year old age group. Melody Ringeisen, FFBT employee from Amboy, participated in the dunk tank.
In addition to these activities, First Farmers and Norris Insurance put on a contest between the two to see who could raise the most money from a quilt raffle. Norris Insurance just edged out FFBT by around $30, but together, they raised almost $1200 for the American Cancer Society. After the fair, the quilt was raffled off and the winner was Sharon Etchison, Owner of Sharon's Beauty Salon. She is pictured below with Cathy Stewart who created the quilt.
