{"id":353400,"date":"2026-09-22T10:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353400\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T10:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:54:10","slug":"hawkins-oil-festival-to-feature-parade-queens-llamas-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353400\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawkins Oil Festival to feature parade, queens, llamas and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hawkins Oil Festival to feature parade, queens, llamas and more<\/p>\n

Published 5:30 am Tuesday, September 22, 2026<\/p>\n

East Texans are invited to celebrate America 250 during the annual Hawkins Oil Festival on Sept. 26.<\/p>\n

The event takes place 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hawkins City Park pavilion. The park is along Blackbourn Street. There is no admission fee.<\/p>\n

The event will include a parade, live entertainment, local vendors, food trucks, shopping, handmade goods, put-put golf and a llama petting zoo. The day will begin with a pancake breakfast served by local firefighters.<\/p>\n

Several antique vehicles and tractors will be on display during the festival.<\/p>\n

Members of military veteran organizations will participate in the event and ride motorcycles during the parade, said Inez Cedillo, a board member for the Hawkins Chamber of Commerce. Army recruiters and members of the Gilmer ROTC will participate as well.<\/p>\n

Seven queens from area pageants or festivals will participate, Cedillo said.<\/p>\n


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And traditional Hispanic Folkl\u00f3rico dancing, including dancing horses, also will be part of the event.<\/p>\n

People can bring canned food to donate to Hawkins Helping Hands, and a toy drive will take place as well.<\/p>\n

The parade lineup will begin at 9:30 a.m., and the parade will begin at 11 a.m. The parade will start at Paluxy Drive and FM 14 and travel south along FM 14 to Blackbourn Street.<\/p>\n

Cedillo said she hopes people come to celebrate the nation\u2019s military and to build a sense of community.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to support each other,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawkins Oil Festival to feature parade, queens, llamas and more Published 5:30 am Tuesday, September 22, 2026 East…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-353400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}