CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - The Evangelical United Church of Christ will be holding an Apple Butter Festival on October 6.

The church is located at 33 S. Ellis Street in Cape Girardeau.

The theme is "A Country Church in the City!"

The festival will take place on Saturday, October 6, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

For more than 40 years, the congregation of the Evangelical United Church of Christ has celebrated the fall season by making apple butter in the yard behind the church.

They make apple butter the old fashioned way with apples, sugar, and cinnamon, cooked in copper kettles.

The event will feature live gospel music in the morning, live music and street dancing featuring "Bob Dolle and Friends" a western swing band in the afternoon, apple butter making demonstrations, homemade apple butter for sale, homemade chicken and dumplings for sale, hot dogs and drinks for sale, free crafts for kids, and a Red Cross blood drive.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - A Franklin Elementary student's work is hanging at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. this month.

Eight-year-old Tramia Lockridge's art will also be featured on the cover of "ShowMe Art" magazine, a publication of the Missouri Art Education Association. 

Submitted to a national contest called "All Kids Can Create" by her Franklin Elementary art teacher, “The Rainforest” was selected from 3,000 entries from all 50 states. Only two students from each state were selected to exhibit.

Tramia, a second-grader when she created “The Rainforest," is pictured with her water-color-on-canvas piece.  She is the daughter of Lydia Lockridge.

“We are absolutely thrilled for Tramia," Franklin Art teacher Kim Holman said. "She is a great kid and she is going to go far in whatever she chooses to do.”