Downtown Porterville to transform into vision of 'old west' at this event

PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Imagine a metropolis being transformed backmost into the "old west" - Porterville's Pioneer Days successful October gives visitors a imaginativeness of conscionable that.

According to Porterville's Park and Recreation Department, the Zalud House Museum Pioneer Days and Rib Cook-Off began successful 2012 arsenic a fundraiser for the museum.

Organizers accidental that Downtown Porterville is transformed into the imaginativeness of the aged westbound during the event, implicit with a unrecorded shoot-out successful the street. Historical and acquisition displays and reenactments are conscionable a fewer of the attractions that are featured astatine the lawsuit each year.

Anyone is capable to enactment and vie successful the Rib Cook-Off for currency prizes, the People's Choice Award, and the Best Decorated Booth Trophy, according to organizers. The nationalist tin bargain tickets to illustration the ribs from an array of flavors and fashions of rib styles.

According to organizers, 100% of the proceeds volition beryllium going straight to the extortion and preservation of the Zalud House Museum.

The lawsuit volition beryllium connected Oct. 5 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with the Rib Cook-Off contention starting astatine 7 a.m. For much information, click here.