{"id":470343,"date":"2026-10-19T07:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470343\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T07:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:50:13","slug":"texas-ams-century-mens-society-hosts-annual-watermelon-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470343\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M\u2019s Century Men\u2019s Society hosts annual Watermelon Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) &#8211; An annual carnival-style event returned to raise cancer awareness while also having fun. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Texas A&amp;M\u2019s Century Men\u2019s Society hosted its annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tamucenturymen.org\/watermelon-bash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watermelon Bash<\/a>, bringing the community together for a day of activities and fundraising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Watermelon Bash has been held since 2019 as a carnival-style event centered around watermelons. This year\u2019s activities included a watermelon smash, tug-of-war, watermelon eating contests and slip-and-slides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Century Cancer Fund philanthropy logistics officer Cade Fraley said the cause is extra special for him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI was a counselor for Camp Kesem this summer, and we probably have eight of our kids here,\u201d Fraley remarked. \u201cThey, of course, come for free, so it\u2019s really awesome to be able to have like that personal impact and be able to put on an event like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This year\u2019s bash drew in more than 1,000 participants. Dailey Poland said it was his first time attending and that he enjoyed having fun while also giving back to the community. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis feels amazing because I\u2019m having a great time, but I still feel like my contributions are going back towards the community, you know, like paying it forward,\u201d Poland said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">All the proceeds from the Watermelon Bash will go towards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kesem.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Kesem<\/a>, which is a summer camp for kids whose parents have cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KBTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) &#8211; An annual carnival-style event returned to raise cancer awareness while also having fun. Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[159681,159680,159679,27,29,28,159678],"class_list":["post-470343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-camp-kesem","tag-century-cancer-fund","tag-century-mens-society","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-watermelon-bash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}