On Saturday, August 9 at the Meadowbrook Center in Shawsville, the tomato makes a big boy return to the region with the first annual “EastMont Tomato Festival.” We’ll have contests for best-tasting, biggest and funniest-looking tomatoes, along with best BBQ sauce, pasta sauce, ketchup, salsa, tomato recipe, fried green tomato, and tomato artwork … just to name a few! We’ll also feature a Tomato Queen, tomato juggling, a tomato catapult, The Tomato Opera, and some musical tomato jams. Festival proceeds will go toward supporting The Meadowbrook Market, which opened in June to provide local growers and artists a place to sell their products and help build a more sustainable community.