On Saturday, Thunder Basin’s FFA chapter, Coal Country FFA, hosted its second annual Fall Festival in the parking lot of Thunder Basin High School, bringing together residents from across Gillette and the Campbell County area for a day of fun.

The festival featured games, music, face painting and a pumpkin patch as well as a number of local vendors, and plenty of people stopped by to celebrate the fall season.

The petting zoo proved to be a crowd pleaser, on top of being a good way to get young kids interested in FFA.

“The goal of the event is to really educate the community on agriculture, so that’s why we have a petting zoo, and then the students who are working there are giving younger kids the opportunity to not only handle animals, but learn why we raise those animals in the first

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