HayFest YC

10/14/2025

🌾🎉 HayFest 2025 Has Come to an End! 🎉🌾

What an incredible weekend in Historic Downtown Yates Center! 💛

A huge thank you to all our amazing sponsors, volunteers, and vendors who helped make this year’s event such a success — we couldn’t have done it without you! 🙌

Your support, hard work, and community spirit brought our town to life and made HayFest truly special. 💫

📸 We’d love to see your favorite memories!
Share your best HayFest photos in the comments below and help us relive the fun! 💕

Join us next year -- HayFest 2026 -- Friday, October 9th & Saturday, October 10th

Thank you sponsors:
Friends for Life
G&W Foods
Superior Building Supply, Inc.
Community National Bank & Trust
Toronto Lumber
Weber Seed Services LLC
The Yates Center News
Hibbard Realty Service
Hairbenders
4 Rivers Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Amber Hines - American Family Insurance Agent
Ace Refrigeration
Mardelle Pringle
The Abernathy Room
Silverado's
110 Lounge & Event Center
Wicked Witch Welding
Ash Grove Cement
GNBank
C&H Hay & Cattle
Personal Service Insurance
Bank of Commerce
Gilead Lodge #144
Golden Rod Chapter #163 OES
Woodson Chamber
Woodson County Tourism Board
Iola Radio - 101.5 KIKS & 1370 KIOL

10/13/2025

🎨🏆 The Votes Are In! 🏆🎨
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 Hay Bale Art Contest! 🌾✨

🥇 1st Place: Rover by the Holloway Family
🥈 2nd Place: Sunflower by Woodson USD #366's 4th Graders
🥉 3rd Place: Harlie's Birthday Cake by Jace Collins
🏅 4th Place: Clock by Piqua 4-H Club
🏅 5th Place: Gumball Machine by Woodson County Title

Each display brought creativity, color, and fall spirit to our community — thank you to everyone who participated and voted! 💛

🏆 Winners: Please claim your prize at the Woodson Chamber Office during business hours.

Your creativity helped make HayFest 2025 a true community celebration! 🌻

10/12/2025

🎀🌟 The Winners Are! 🌟🎀

We’re excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Pole Decorating Competition, sponsored by GNBank! 💜

🏆 1st Place: Yates Center Dental
🥈 2nd Place: Kays Club
🥉 3rd Place: Main Street Dance Company

Each design beautifully represented this year’s theme and added color and community spirit to Historic Downtown Yates Center! 🌈✨

A huge thank you to everyone who participated — your creativity made our town shine! 💛

🎁 Winners: Please claim your prizes at GN Bank.

10/11/2025

The quest for the 2025 Hayfest Medallion has come to an end. Many searched late into the night, and it was not found and turned until 3:00 today. We hoped it was a fun journey into the history of the founding of our hometown.
It was found after many hours of searching and researching by Lisa and Jarrod Zellner

Clue #1 Mary Street…the wife of Abner Yates
Clue #2 Madison, Lincoln and Washington Streets
Clue #3 Hilda Street
Clue #4 Main Street
Clue #5 Chellis Street
Clue #6 Wilson Street
Clue #7 Rutledge Street

And It borders the building with a tall white crown

Also where the medallion most likely will be found!

The Medallion was found on the window sill on the south side of the Courthouse, that is facing Rutledge Street.

10/10/2025

🌟 Thank You to Our Level 3 HayFest Sponsors! 🌟

We’re sending a huge thank-you to our Level 3 Sponsors for their outstanding support of HayFest 2025! 🎉
Your contributions help bring exciting activities, family fun, and community spirit to Historic Downtown Yates Center! 🍂💛

👏 Level 3 Sponsors:

Bank of Commerce
Gilead Lodge #144 & Golden Rod Chapter #163
Woodson Chamber
Woodson County Tourism Board
Iola Radio - KiOL & KiKS

These sponsors make it possible to host a weekend full of live entertainment, local vendors, kids’ activities, and all the fall fun HayFest is known for! 🌾

🎪 HayFest Highlights:
🎶 Live DJ & Music
🎈 Free Kids’ Inflatables & Games
🎨 Fall Crafts & Pumpkin Decorating
🐎 Barrel Racing
🍔 Food Trucks & Local Vendors
🎲 BINGO & Community Events
🍺 Beer Garden
…and so much more!

📅 October 10th & 11th
📍 Historic Downtown – Yates Center, KS
🔗 Learn more: www.HayFestYC.com

Thank you, Level 3 Sponsors, for helping make HayFest a celebration our whole community can enjoy! 🙌

10/10/2025

🎉 Congratulations to our HayFest YC Coloring Contest winners! 🖍️

A big thank you to Casey's for sponsoring the event and treating our winners to free cookie coupons! 🍪👏

Congrats to our Hayfest coloring contest winners!

10/10/2025

🎉🌟 Tonight’s the Night — HayFest 2025 Kicks Off! 🌟🎉

The wait is over! Grab your friends and family and head to Historic Downtown Yates Center as we kick off a weekend full of fun, food, and community spirit! 🎶✨

Check out our Schedule of Events and browse the event fliers below to plan your weekend.

For full details on all the exciting activities, visit 👉 HayFestYC.com

Let’s make this year’s HayFest YC one to remember — see you there! 🌾💛

10/10/2025

👑 New Vendor Alert – Rural Roots Retail! ✨

We’re excited to welcome Royal Roots Retail to HayFest 2025! 🎉
Stop by their booth to check out a fun variety of freshies, western jewelry, keychains, and much more — perfect for gifts, decor, or treating yourself! 💎🌸

Don’t miss their unique handmade items while you explore all the amazing vendors at Historic Downtown Yates Center this weekend! 🌾

📅 October 10th & 11th
📍 Downtown Yates Center, KS
🔗 Learn more: www.HayFestYC.com

10/09/2025

🏁 HayFest 2025 Medallion Hunt – Clue #7!
The moment of truth! Solve the location clue, find the medallion, and submit your answers to claim the $200 Grand Prize!

📅 Clue Release: Thursday, October 9 at 5 PM
📍 HayFest YC

📅 Event Dates: Friday, October 10 & Saturday, October 11, 2025
📍 Yates Center Historic Town Square

Good luck, hunters! Who will uncover the treasure first? 🏆

10/09/2025

🥤🍪 Vendor Spotlight – Frosted Joy ! 🍪🥤

Cool off and treat yourself at HayFest 2025 with the Dirty Soda Shoppe, brought to you by Frosted Joy! 🎉

They’ll be serving up:
🥤 Refreshing dirty sodas with fun flavors & mix-ins
🍪 Delicious cookies and baked goods

📅 Friday, October 10th & Saturday, October 11th
📍 Historic Downtown – Yates Center, KS

Stop by their booth, grab a sweet treat, and sip your way through the festival fun! 🍁

10/09/2025

📣 HayFest Announcement Cards Are Here! 🎉
Sponsored by Bank of Commerce 💙

Keep an eye out — Announcement Cards are being delivered to local and neighboring schools this week to help spread the word about 2025 ! 🌾

🎟️ Bring your card to the Event Registration Table during HayFest and earn a fun prize! 🏅

A big thank-you to Bank of Commerce for helping us share the excitement and invite families from near and far to join in the fun! 🙌

10/09/2025

🐮✨ Newest Vendor Alert – Cattle & Kin Encounters, LLC! 📸

We’re excited to welcome Cattle & Kin Encounters to HayFest 2025 ! Get ready for a truly unique experience — snap a photo and interact up close with an adorable Highland cow against a beautiful fall backdrop! 🍂🐂

📷 Photos delivered within 24 hours, so you’ll have a lasting memory from this year’s festival. Perfect for families, friends, and anyone who loves a good photo op! 💛

📅 October 11th
📍 Historic Downtown – Yates Center, KS
🔗 Details at www.HayFestYC.com