More than $7,000 raised in sponsorships, T-shirt, raffle, and drink sales.
More than 30 Vendors, 16 pie contest entries, More than 55 volunteers
More than 600 attended the festival
Kristen Dickerson from News Channel 8 and Greg Kocsak from
104.5 the Edge emceed.
Jay Falkner from South 40 and Travis Kidd played
We could not have done it
without our many supporters
and our wonderful community!!!
The inaugural Down
On Main Street
festival was a
great success!
Cooks Corner
By Linda Jordan
Reprinted from Tulsa County News August 12th , 2009         
         
What fun was had at the pie contest held last Saturday at the Down on
Main Street festival! With a total of 16 pie entries our esteemed judges,
Bud Craft, Joan Hoar, Greg Kocsak, Gary Percefull and Jeff Stark were
truly challenged to select winners in the four categories of berry, cream,
fruit and nut.
Winners in the berry category were Sandi Dittmann, first place with a
delicious strawberry/rhubarb combination, and Anna F. Brown, second
place with a blackberry pie.  In the cream category, Saundra Ford won
first place with a Wedding Cake Pie and Mayor Kathy Taylor took second
place with a chocolate cream pie.
Gail Ball won first place in the fruit category with an apple pie entitled
“The Yankee Apple in Red Fork’s Court” and Carol Keeley took second
place with her apple pie. First place winner in the nut category was Eva
Oliver with a southern pecan pie. Dena Engle took second place with her
pecan pie.
Saundra Ford’s Wedding Cake Pie took “Best of Show.”
All winners will receive ribbons and cash prizes courtesy of RedFork
Main Street and Tulsa County News.
Wedding Cake Pie
Crust: Crush 25 vanilla wafers in a bowl, add 1/4 cup butter and press
firmly into a pie tin. Store in freezer.
Chiffon cake topper: Sift one cup flour with one tablespoon baking
powder and a dash of salt, set aside. Whip one cup sugar with 1/4 cup
butter and 1/4 cup shortening until light. Add a dash of vanilla and one cup
whole milk, whip two minutes.  Slowly add flour mixture into sugar mixture
until smooth. Fold in five stiffly whipped egg whites.
Bake at 375 degrees in a pre-greased and floured nine-inch cake pan for
approximately 20 minutes. Set aside to cool.
Cheesecake filling: Beat three eggs in a small bowl, set aside. Mix 1/4
cup cornstarch with one cup of sugar in medium sauce pan.  Add one cup of
milk and stir on medium high until thick and bubbling. Remove from heat
and put a large spoonful of filling into beaten eggs, stir. Add egg mixture to
filling, return to heat, until mixture bubbles again. Add one eight-ounce
package of cream cheese, stir until smooth for approximately one minute.
Pour immediately into prepared crust. Let cool slightly. Add vanilla wafers
around the rim of pie tin. Set aside.
Fresh blueberry layer: Place one pint of fresh blueberries in small sauce
pan and boil with 1/2 cup of sugar until thick. Pour and spread over the
cream cheese filling. Take cooled cake and slice through center, making
the cake less then an inch high, place the top of cake on blueberry layer.
Refrigerate.
Buttercream frosting: Whip one tablespoon butter with one tablespoon
milk and one tablespoon vanilla. Add one cup powdered sugar to whipped
mixture. Continue whipping to form a light frosting. Layer a thin coat of
frosting over cake topper.
Reprinted from Tulsa County News August 12th , 2009

A Red Fork tradition began on America’s Main
Street last Saturday, as hundreds of people
gathered for Southwest Tulsa’s new “signature
event.”
Down on Main Street … a RedFork Tradition was
organized by RedFork Main Street, Inc. And
supported by dozens of local businesses and
organizations. Organizers labeled the festival a
success and estimated more than 700 people
attended the four-hour event on Southwest
Boulevard near West 41st Street.
“More than anything, it was a celebration of what
RedFork Main Street has done in two years, and
a chance to reach people who hadn’t heard of the
project,” said Katy Davis, RedFork Main Street
executive director.
The festival was staged in front of Ollie’s Station
Restaurant, closing a short stretch of Southwest
Boulevard – which also is designated Historic
Route 66. Traffic was rerouted around the festival.
The event included a pie-baking contest, Global
Gardens Kid Zone, OSU mobile health clinic, and
dozens of exhibitors and vendors. Ollie’s was the
event’s food vendor, offering a Blue Plate Special
chicken-fried steak dinner. Recording artists
Travis Kidd and Jay Faulkner provided a musical
backdrop from a stage in the center of America’s
Main Street.
Working the crowd were several political
candidates and their supporters. Mayor Kathy
Taylor and District 2 Councilor Rick Westcott
both mingled with the festival crowd, along with
entering the pie contest.
The pie judging drew 16 entries in four categories
– nut, fruit, berry and cream. Saundra Ford’s
entry, “Wedding Cake Pie”, was honored as Best
of Show.
RedFork Main Street’s Davis announced to the
crowd “You helped our community make
memories and you helped RedFork Main Street
reach another milestone.”
Afterward, she said planning for a repeat of the
festival next year would begin soon. Persons
interested in getting involved should call RedFork
Main Street at 445-4457.
Thanks to all   
       of our        
   Sponsors
Down on main street
a success
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