If you tried to cram one more event into this weekend, I don’t know where it would go.

There’s Springfest — Batesville’s signature event held that is at once the community’s music, food and fun celebration that gives us a great excuse to get outside on the Square and visit. Stay there long enough and you will eventually encounter everybody you ever knew and get to meet their kids and grandkids as well.

Friday night, I’m scheduled to work in the Rotary’s barbecue tent.  Barbecue was the original feature of what has grown into Springfest. Today and tomorrow you can choose from a testy array offered by at least five organizations whose sole purpose is to create such a tasty offerings that you can’t resist. Likely I won’t.

Shriners will be cooking crawfish; Lady Civitans have a varied menu that includes smoked sausage and shish kabobs; Men Civitans are cooking chicken on a stick, bloomin’ onions and such.

And on goes the list: Sardis Lake Christian Camp supporters will offer hot dogs, fried pies and such and St. Mary’s Catholic Church offers funnel cakes about which Billy Davis waxes eloquent and salivates on page 1A .

It’s all so ridiculously delicious.

I’ve signed up for Saturday morning’s Racing for Paws 5K which will benefit the Panola County Humane Society. ‘Nuff said.

And later that day — around 1:15 p.m. — two grandsons and their fellows who comprise 5 & 2 will perform on the stage where a generous inclusion of local talent has been interspersed with headliners Friday night, Saturday afternoon and evening. Not to mention colorfully-lit amusement rides, games and carnival fare.

And that’s just Springfest.

In the third section of today’s newspaper, you’ll find ten pages devoted to our local high school graduates.

North Delta holds its graduation Friday in the school’s gymnasium; South Panola will follow on Saturday morning with graduation in the Batesville Civic Center starting at 10 a.m. Many Panola County hearts will be wrapped around the young people who will be marking that grand milestone en route to adulthood.

How much more?

The Panola Playhouse will present its second weekend of “Oliver” with performances Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday afternoon. A glance at the cast listing of hometowns attests the valuable asset this historic community theater has become for people in Panola and surrounding counties.

The list of weekend activities is not exhausted, but my space is. Here’s wishing you, respectively, good weather, good luck and “break a leg.”