Tickets are on sale for the annual Firemen’s Festival grand prize drawing

Festival president Cody Smith shows the prize—a 2023 Chevrolet Silverado 4X4.

Tickets are on sale for the annual Kilmarnock Volunteer Fire Department Firemen’s Festival grand prize drawing. Festival president Cody Smith shows the prize—a 2023 Chevrolet Silverado 4X4—on display at the KVFD Firehouse, 71 School Street, Kilmarnock.

The winning ticket will be drawn on the final night of the festival, which runs nightly from July 27-August 5, except Sunday, at the KVFD Carnival Grounds, 200 Waverly Avenue, Kilmarnock. Raffle tickets are $10 and available from any KVFD member, or from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturdays through July 22 at the firehouse.

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