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The Ginger Binger wins contest

photos by Heather Small-Hawley and T. Scott Boatright

Top photo: Caylan “The Ginger Binger” Dowden, left, and Damon “The Destroyer” Serginet, right, gobble peach cobbler during the Louisiana Peach Festival’s first Cobbler Gobbler contest on Saturday. Participants attempted to eat two pounds of professionally baked cobbler in five minutes.

Dowden, middle photo, raises his hands in victory after eating all of his cobbler in less than the allotted time. He won $1,000 and the official Cobbler Gobbler championship belt. The contest was sponsored by Hampton Inn in Ruston.

Bottom photo: Dylan Scott, a country singer from Bastrop, performs at Railroad Park to finish off the festival Saturday evening. Scott sang before a crowd of more than 500 festival goers. Other festival entertainers included Louisiana Swamp Donky, KATALYST and Zack O’Neil.

ART TALK: Production brings magic to Dixie stage

by Jonathan Baines with the Ruston Community Theatre

The magic of Disney is coming to Ruston in RCT’s next production “Beauty and the Beast Jr.” Sponsored by the Ruston Kiwanis Club and directed by Steele Moegle, the show  will run Tuesday through Wednesday at the Dixie Center for the Arts...

There will be two evening shows at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. Tuesday and a 2 p.m. matinee on Wednesday. Tickets for these special performances are $5 per person and are available at the Dixie box office and online at http://mkt.com/rctruston

Calling all peach coblbler lovers: Cobbler Gobbler accepting eating contest challengers 

Here are some samples of Rick Kelley’s kids program from his YouTube page:

Elizabeth Vidos, also known as Lady Chops, will perform at the Lincoln Parish Library at 6 p.m. today for all ages; 10 a.m. Wednesday for children and at 4 p.m. Wednesday for teens.

Read more here.

Shelly Dowdy, children’s specialist for Lincoln Parish Library on Elizabeth “Lady Chops” Vidos

Lady Chops will be performing at the Lincoln Parish Library on May 31 and June 1. For more information read “Lady Chops to Perform at LPL” by Heather Small-Hawley in the 5/23/16 issue of Ruston Daily Leader.