Zonta Club Arts & Craft Festival Coming Oct. 1

Steve Loper, owner of Lounge Lizard in downtown Pascagoula, expects good business at festival.

Event Info:

Who: Zonta Club of Pascagoula

What: 34th Annual Arts & Craft Show

When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 1

Where: Downtown Plaza, Pascagoula
Details: More information at 769-6773

Sales person Janet Smith at Coast Clothing gets ready for Zonta festival.

PASCAGOULA -- A sales employee and business owner said that the annual Zonta Club Arts and Craft Festival means a good retail day for shops and restaurants located in Downtown Plaza on Delmas Avenue.

"It should be real good," said Steve Loper, owner of the Lounge Lizard. "It's probably one of the best business days in the city of Pascagoula. Citizens turn out real well."

He said the sunny weather also would make the festival "real nice."

Loper, a four-year owner of the outdoor furniture shop, estimates that up to 10,000 people attend the arts and craft show, which is in its 34th year. He said business traffic at the Lounge Lizard increases "600 percent, in one day."

Live entertainment, an antique car show and activities for children draw people from all over to the area that stretches along Delmas Avenue and surrounding streets, including Pascagoula and Magnolia streets, and the parking lot of Hancock Bank, where a number entertainers will sing.

Janet Smith, a sales person at Coast Clothing, said that normally she is off on Saturdays, but she will be working this weekend because of the festival. "It's really busines and steady, people coming in and out."

She's not sure about the increase in the business traffic, but she knows it's really busy.

"It's a good day for everybody down here," Smith said.

The festival also includes a number of food vendors and book sale at the Pascagoula Library, where another stage has been positioned at the front entrance on Pascagoula Street. Also, a stage is on Delmas Avenue.

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