Continued next year: Farmington Harvest Festival debuts with donations boost

They ran out of cheese, beer, pie, ice cream and hot dogs. They had 15 hamburger patties left.

The first Farmington Harvest Festival entered the night Saturday with one of the event’s 26 volunteers driving up to Tekoa for 100 hot dogs and cases of beer from C & D’s. The five kegs at the beer garden were dry.

“Our whole goal for a first annual was to break even,” said Chairman Frank Triplett. “We were expecting around 200 people and we’re guessing there was about 400.”

It all added up to a $3,500 donation to the town of Farmington’s parks.

As evening fell, after the band The Intentions finished...