Each year the town of Turin gets together to celebrate being a community.

Residents celebrate by dancing in the streets with entertainment

and refreshments Friday night and then having an old-fashioned tractor

pull Saturday. This will be the sixth year of the event.

Friday night's events begin at 8:30 p.m. in the Turin Town

Square with a dance in the streets. The Bill Cabes Band will provide

the music for most of the evening, and the gospel act The Wings

will play during the intermission of the set from The Bill Cabes

Band. The dance will last until 11:30 p.m.

Saturday starts with a parade of tractors down Ga. Highway 16. The

Coweta County Mule Club will lead the way for the 125 tractors that

will either be on display or will be part of the pull competition.

The parade route goes down Ga. Highway 16 and back to the fire station.

The competition, which begins at 11 a.m., will take place behind

the fire station.

Some of the events featured at this year's tractor pull are

the Ladies Powder Puff Pull; the Slow Race, which consists of tractors

trying to go as slow as possible without stopping the engine; the

Hand Start race, which has two racers starting seated on the tractors,

then jumping off to crank the tractor up and then jumping back on

the tractor to race; and a children's pedal race with toy John

Deere tractors.

The weight class competition will begin at 3 p.m. and will feature

tractors pulling anywhere from 3,000 to 12,000 pounds. The tractors

will hook up to a weight sled and pull in heats until a winner is

crowned.

Food will be provided by the tractor pull organizers. Each year

the group handles the food duties in order to raise money for next

year's event. Proceeds from last year's pull paid for

a tent and the frame of a weight sled. Pull organizers are hoping

this year's pull will help them complete their own weight sled.

This year's menu will include homemade barbecue sandwiches,

hamburgers, hot dogs and soda. Turin Methodist Church will provide

the sweets.

Admission is free and t-shirts depicting the farm and antique tractors

will be available.