Special Events
Irmo 31st Annual Okra Strut Is Coming in 2004:
SEPTEMBER 24 & 25, 2004
Now! Begin Your Plan To Attend!
Town of Irmo, P.O. Box 406, Irmo, 29063, (803) 781-7050
Click Here Parade and Craft Entry Information!
Arts and Crafts *Okryland * Staged
Entertainment Saturday 9am - 5pm
* Lake Murray Blvd (SC Highway 60)
Fried Okra All Day * Okra Contests
DAM Run To Irmo * Saturday 7am *
Lake Murray Dam
Charity Golf Tournament
Friday, September 24th
12 Noon
Okra Strut Charity Golf Tournament
Seventh Annual St. Andrews Kiwanis charity tournament is four-person Captain's Choice at Coldstream Golf Club.
Fee includes cart, green fees, food, beverages and prizes.
For information call Clyde Jordan at 803.772.8411.
6:00pm-12:30am
Official Opening of
Okra Strut 2003
A street dance will highlight
the evening.
Featured Bands
will be appearing on the
Budweiser/Oldies 103 Concert Stage.
Midlands Public Safety Officers
will compete in Wachovia's Okra-Eating Contest.
Irmo goes shaggin' for the
annual Hemingway's Shaggin' in the Streets competition.
There will be plenty of
food, rides and fried okra.
FIREWORKS! by Sprint PCS
Saturday, September 25th
7:30am
Dam Run to Irmo
The 17th annual run (6.2
miles, 10k)
is scheduled to begin on
the Lexington side of the Lake Murray Dam.
For information call 803.750.9306.
Sponsored by the Rotary
Club of St. Andrews-Columbia.
8:00am
6th Annual Carolina
Cyclers Fall Century Ride
Scheduled to depart from
the parking lot of the Irmo Fire Department.
For information call Mark
Possner at 803.695.5349.
8:00am-12 Noon
The Okra Strut Volkmarch
A non-competitive 10K walk,
will begin with staggered times between 8:00am - 12:00pm.
Walkers will follow a mapped
route, which will begin at the Piggly Wiggly parking lot on Lake Murray
Blvd.
For information call Mike
Williams at 803.754.7275.
9:30am
BellSouth Okra Strut
Parade
The largest festival parade
in South Carolina
More than 100 units participating,
including the famous Irmo Okra Man,
floats, beauty queens, marching
bands and more.
St. Andrews Road, from Irmo
High School to Irmo Village Shopping Center.
10:00am-5:00pm
Festival Site Open
Food, Arts/Crafts, Rides
and Exhibitions.
Three stages with continuous
entertainment all day.
Children's Okra Eating Contest
and The Golden Pod Hunt.
Featured Bands will
play from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
