Honey at last year's festival.

Our focus is on promoting our schools and giving back to the community.”

Lenora Kendrick, CBEF

ROBERTSDALE, Alabama — Get an education about honeybees while supporting education for local schools at the annual Honeybee 5K and 1-mile run/walk, followed by the Honeybee Festival Saturday at Honeybee Park in Robertsdale.

For the fifth straight year the festival will be a fundraiser for the Central Baldwin Education Foundation, which will run its Honeybee 5K and 1-mile run/walk for the sixth straight year.

“Our focus is on promoting our schools and giving back to the community,” said Lenora Kendrick with CBEF.

You can register online until 4 a.m. Sept. 30 at events.com. Registration forms are also available at cbef.com. Registration and early packet pickup for the run will be from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday and from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the George P. Thames Senior Center, 22651 E. Chicago St. Packet and event T-shirt pick-up will begin at 7:30 with race time set for 8 a.m., followed immediately by the 1-mile walk/run.

Awards will be handed out for first, second and third place, overall male and female finishers, along with overall awards for male and female juniors, masters, grand masters and senior masters. Awards will also be given in 14 age groups for the one-mile run/walk beginning with 0-7 and running through 71-plus.

Race day registration costs $20 for adults (19 and over), $15 for students (19 and under). Honey Bee T-shirts are guaranteed for the first 200 registrants. If you do not want a T-shirt, you can register for a discount of $3.

This year’s festival will also include a single-elimination, two-person team corn hole tournament beginning at 11 a.m. on Saturday. Entries cost $20 per team and can be in any combination (two males, two females or one male and one female). Non-members are welcome.

Cash prizes of $50 for first place, $30 for second and $20 for third will be awarded. The number of teams will be determined by the number of entrants but will be limited to 32 teams.

Registration forms are available at cbef.org.

This year’s Honeybee Festival will begin at 8 a.m., continuing until 3 p.m. and will include about 30 food and craft vendors, along with a petting zoo and pony rides. There will also be a kid’s craft area set up with face painting, bounce houses and a variety of entertainment. There will also be an art contest for high school students and an art show for elementary school students.

Entertainment for this year’s festival will include The Three Chords of Truth from the Robertsdale First Baptist Church, The Loxley Elementary School Glee Club, Image Band from the Robertsdale Assembly of God and Dare 2 Dance will host an afternoon performance.

Local vendors will also be available at this year’s festival, selling honey and giving demonstrations of the craft.

Again this year, in addition to professional arts and crafts vendors selling their wares, the festival is open to all local schools and school organizations. Little Miss Honeybee and her court will also be introduced at the festival.

The Central Baldwin Education Foundation was formed in 2008 with the help of the Central Baldwin Chamber of Commerce, as a way to support Robertsdale High School and its feeder schools, including the South Baldwin Center for Technology, Central Baldwin Middle School and the area’s six elementary schools, Robertsdale, Loxley, Silverhill, Summerdale, Elsanor and Rosinton schools.

In 2009, the CBEF began giving out grants to qualifying teachers at the various schools. Grants have also been given to fund tutoring programs for local schools and the organization has also given scholarships to local students.

For more information visit the Central Baldwin Education Foundation’s page on Facebook or visit cbef.org.