Advance orders are being accepted for chicken and noodle dinner sales affiliated with the upcoming Jefferson Elementary School Carnival Oct. 5.
Orders can be placed by calling the “Chicken Noodle Hotline,” 228-0807.
“Just leave a message if you don’t get an answer,” said Mandy Middleton, president of the Jefferson Parent Teacher Organization, which is organizing the carnival.
The chicken and noodles — traditionally the signature attraction for the annual carnival — will sell for $7 a quart.
The carnival will feature an assortment of games and other activities from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at the Recreation Community Building at Riverside Park.
Inflatable attractions will fill the inside of the building, while other games, both indoors and outdoors, are planned, Middleton said.
Wristbands granting access to each of the games will sell for $7 in advance or $10 the night of the carnival. Wristbands are available at the school office.
Scores of local businesses and other patrons have donated items for a series of drawings, featuring such prizes as a laptop computer, tickets to upcoming cultural attractions and sporting events and other assorted goods and services.
Tickets for the drawing are available from Jefferson students.
A second drawing makes participants eligible for a playground pirate ship structure built by maintenance employee Mike Barnes.
Those tickets are available at the weekly Farmers Market held Thursday evenings along Iola’s courthouse square.
Modern Woodmen has pledged to match up to $2,000 from revenues generated from the carnival.
Proceeds from the activities will go toward PTO’s efforts to purchase a new sound system for the Jefferson gymnasium.
