"Cruise Night" is Friday on Holton's Town Square
“Cruise Night” is set for Friday, Aug. 5, and the event will feature cars, a live band and food around the Holton Square.
Sponsored by the Holton/Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, “Cruise Night” will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday. Car enthusiasts with antique or unique cars, trucks and motorcycles are invited to the Square for a nostalgic slow cruise.
There is no registration fee for “Cruise Night,” and participants are invited to just show up that evening.
Throughout the event, The Good Sam Club Band of Shawnee Mission will be performing on the east side of the Courthouse, it was reported.
The band has been performing at outdoor events for 30 years. They describe their sound as “American rock and roll with a little country and blues.”
In the parking lot on the west side of the Courthouse, several “hit and miss engines” will be displayed and demonstrated.
A hit and miss engine is a type of four-stroke internal combustion engine conceived in the late 19th century and produced by various companies from the 1880s to the 1940s.
The name comes from the speed control of the engine. The sound made when the engine is running without a load is a distinctive “pop whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh pop” as the engine fires and then coasts until the speed decreases and it fires again to maintain its average speed.
“Cruise Night” is being held in conjunction with Holton National Bank’s 13th annual community appreciation dinner on the Courthouse lawn. The free dinner will be held rain or shine from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
HNB staff will be serving sandwiches and sides for free.
Members of the Jackson County Historical Society will also be serving root beer floats again this year as a fund-raiser.
Those attending “Cruise Night” are encouraged to bring lawn chairs.
For more information about the event, call the Chamber office at 364-3963.
