Throughout the years, the town of Wayne City has held a special event that everybody looks forward to every year. Bean days has been a tradition for the past 58 years. Every year they start the day with a parade and then there are a lot of other very fun events to attend. They have a car show, a quilt show, a tractor show, and all up and down the streets they have many different vendors lined up waiting to serve the townspeople.

To finish the day off every year, they have a rodeo. Many people come from all over southern Illinois to participate and watch this fun and amazing event. They have bull-riding, barrel-racing, mutton-busting, and team-roping. Many students from Wayne city high-school even participate in the rodeo. Risten Kell is a junior at Wayne City High School who rode a bull in this year’s rodeo.

I asked Kell how different it was this year then the past years he has attended the rodeo, and he said, “It was very different than any of the other years I’ve been. A lot of my friends couldn’t be there, because they are in quarantine. I wish things could have been normal just like every other year, but I guess you get what you get and you don’t throw a fit.”

Many students, rodeo participants, and Bean Days attendees are  looking forward to all of this being over so they can get everything back to normal for next year’s Bean Days.