Apr 01

Fall Festival festivities to expand to Reitz Bowl

***Happy April Fools Day!***

Evansville’s legendary Fall Festival will be a little bit larger this year, thanks to a joint venture with Reitz High School. The West Side Nut Club has worked out a deal to move the Kiddie Park area to the Reitz Bowl and the neighboring practice field area.

“As the Fall Festival has continued to grow, space has become more and more limited,” according to Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke. “That’s why today’s announcement is so exciting.”

While it will be the first time in the festival’s 100 years that part of the festivities won’t be on Franklin Street, organizers are hopeful that people won’t mind a short one-mile walk to the Bowl.

“We’re going to have the giant slide actually go down the double dip,” according to Eric Broadway, a spokesman for the Nut Club. “We’ll need to tell the kids to watch out for cars, but it should be a lot of fun.”

For more information, visit nutclub.org.

ReitzFootball.com

Dan Engler's love for Reitz Football goes back a long time. Engler played for the Panthers all four years of high school and graduated in 1996.
That summer, as the popularity of the Internet began to explode, Engler's search for Reitz Football information came up empty, so his father suggested he create a website. Engler taught himself HTML and launched the Unofficial Reitz High School Football Home Page that August.
Since then, Engler, through ReitzFootball.com, has spent the past 25 years chronicling the rich history and tradition of Reitz High School Football.
Engler and his wife, Melissa, have two sons, Logan and Micah, and a daughter, Juliette. Engler has traveled all over the world but is proud to call Evansville his home.

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