BY KADIE VICK
THE LAFAYETTE SUN
LAFAYETTE —The next LaFayette Main Street Downtown Food Truck Festival is Aug. 8 from 5 to 9 p.m. and will be located at the LaFayette Courthouse Square.
“We do Food Truck Festivals quarterly downtown,” said LaFayette Main Street Director DeAnna Hand. “They have been very successful, and something we’re really proud to have as our signature event.”
Hand said she wants to encourage community members to volunteer at LaFayette Main Street events.
“Volunteers help us to welcome and greet people, get the food trucks lined up and make sure they have all the supplies and things that they may need,” she said. “The volunteers help let the public, visitors and attendees know where restrooms and different food trucks are located. They also help share our vision and our mission at LaFayette Main Street.”
There are many ways that volunteers can serve their community with LaFayette Main Street, and Hand said she encourages locals to share their passions and ideas.
“We embrace their ideas and we love to see their passion and creativity to try to make it come to fruition,” she said. “Volunteers are welcome to serve in any role that they feel particularly interested in.”
Hand said that the LaFayette Food Truck Festival is popular and that the trucks have better business at the LaFayette events than at similar events in other towns.
“There are thousands of people who come out for our Food Truck Festivals, and the food trucks often sell out due to the demand and the response,” she said. “They don’t sell out too early, but the food trucks do better here in LaFayette than they do at other festivals that they go to in other towns.”
At the upcoming Food Truck Festival, Hand said that the local football teams will be introduced to kick off the football season.
“I encourage people to bring a lawn chair and stay a while,” she said. “The streets will shut down at noon to allow for food trucks to set up, and us to set up some tables and chairs, but it really starts at 5 p.m. We’ll be introducing the football teams between 5 and 5:30, and the band will come after the football teams.”
Hand said many people throughout the community enjoy the LaFayette Food Truck Festivals, and that she particularly enjoys watching younger locals enjoy time together in their community.
“I love that the young people have embraced the Food Truck Festivals,” she said. “You’ll see the teenagers come out and they’ve got all their sacks of food, and they’re sitting on the Courthouse Square at the musician stage and listening to entertainment. They are eating the different foods that are available and having a fun time.”
