36th annual Buck Fever Festival held in Banks over the weekend

The famous Buck Fever Festival, the annual event put on in the town of Banks in Bradley County, held its 36th consecutive festival this past weekend, November 11-12 during the customary start of Arkansas’s modern-gun deer season.

In these parts, Buck Fever is the unofficial kickoff to the holiday season, and 2022’s festival didn’t disappoint. Featuring food vendors, a dog show, class reunions, fish dinners, and the ever-so-anticipated parade, Banks’s yearly celebration of deer season was once again well attended.

Saline River Chronicle is proud to present the following pageant winners, as well as other pictures from the community-wide event.

Winners Baby Girls 0-12 months
Winner: Serenity Newton
1st: Amelia Bedgood
2nd: Fallon Cate Ashley
Baby Boy winners 0-12 months
Winner: Kolson Towler
1st: Kash Brooks
2nd: Rylen Garcia
Toddler Miss 13-23 months
Winner: Kimber Eryn Mann
1st: Haven May Bauer
2nd: Mary Virginia McClain
Toddler Mr 13-23 months
Winner: Colby Andrew Rice
1st: Remington Pierce
2nd: Hudson Grey Barnett
Tiny Miss 2-4 years
Winner: Haidyn Rae Mann
1st: Kenzlee Gardner
2nd: Emberly Gamble
Little Miss 5-7 years
Winner: Kylie Kendrix
1st: Aubree Knuckes
2nd: Ellisyn Vickers
Petite Miss 8-10 year old
Winner:Josie Elisabeth Miller
1st: Lakin Nelson
2nd: Sadie Grace
Young Miss 11-12 year olds
Winner: Cheyenne Nicole Chapman
1st: Makayleigh Wilkerson
2nd: Bailey Thornton
Jr Miss 13-15 years
Winner: Gracen Lyn White
1st: Courtlyn Taylor Harris
2nd: Brogan Davis
Miss 16-21 years
Winner: Leah Marie Wolfe
1st: Marissa Owen
2nd: Cindy Kaye Wilkerson
Winner 16-21 years – Leah Marie Wolfe – Being awarded $4,000 scholarship
Winner Tiny Mr BuckFever – 2-4 years – Saylor Jones
Baggo Winners – Lee Johnson – Dylan Higgins
Talent show winners

The following photos are by SRC Freelance Contributor Tim Kessler:

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