The route for Saturday’s 38th annual Adel Sweet Corn Festival parade has been changed due to construction work on the $3.2 million Main Street project to remove the street’s historic bricks and install new water mains and storm and sanitary sewer lines.
This year’s parade will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the intersection of Brickyard Road and S. 18th Street and proceed one block north to Prairie Street. Entrants will then parade eastward on Prairie Street to S. 12th Street, where the parade ends.
The parade will line up on 18th and Greene streets. There is no registration needed to enter the parade.
The Sweet Corn Festival starts the day with a 5K run at 8 a.m., followed by the parade. Food and craft vendors will line the courthouse square all day along with live music and entertainment. The musical group Round-A-Bout will perform from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with local favorites The Sons of Gladys Kravitz taking the stage for the 6 p.m. street party.
Construction work on Main Street between 10th and 15th streets is expected to last about one year, according to Adel city sources. The contractor for the water and sewer work is Crow River Construction from New London, Minn.
