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RICHMOND – Evans Midland Carnival brought clean, well-maintained rides to the Richmond Mushroom Festival May 5-7. The public responded with enthusiastic crowds lining up to spin, slide, climb and dip at breakneck speeds that thrilled teens, leaving them grinning, and other rides offered comfortable speeds suitable for children accompanied by protective parents..

THE QUESTION: Which plate that Angela Davis holds contains cake? Left? Right? Neither? Both? Both smell delicious. The answer: Neither. Each plate contains a candle she and daughter Elyssa Cervantes, 13, create. The mother-daughter team sells the candles at the Richmond Mushroom Festival.

RICHMOND – Before “Is It Cake?” reached TV screens, Elyssa Cervantes, 13; and her mother, Angela Davis, had people asking the same question. The mother-daughter team creates delicious-looking and aromatically accurate desserts and drinks – a few being cheesecake, sundaes and daiquiris – from wax.

SOME PEOPLE are just lucky sometimes, and Johny Teegarden, Richmond, is one of them. He holds up just two of scores large morel mushrooms he discovers by accident. “I found these going down the highway,” he says, holding them up during the Mushroom Festival. “I picked 200-some mushrooms from under two trees.” As mushroom hunters would agree, that’s really lucky.

AS PART of the performance in downtown Richmond during the annual Mushroom Festival, Taylor Woods does a flip. She is among the dancers with Shapes Dance and Acro in Richmond.

RICHMOND – Singer-guitarist Scott Fletcher entertained the audience at the Richmond Mushroom Festival the afternoon of May 7, and that evening, he provided the opening act for the opening weekend of the Branded Outdoor Theater.

ON THE LAWN of the Ray County Courthouse, Millie O’Dell, 11, sends bubbles scurrying on the wind during the Richmond Mushroom Festival. J.C.

INSTEAD of the traditional face painting children everywhere wear during the Richmond Mushroom Festival on May 7, Layton Meek chooses a more striking way to display his passion by getting a brightly colored tattoo. In answer to the obvious question, his parents are quick to point out the tattoo is a press-on – not permanent – for their 8-yearold boy. Asked “What’s that all about?” Meek answers without hesitation, “Jesus Christ.” Find more coverage of the Mushroom Festival inside this issue on Pages 9-15.