WELLBORN, Fla. — While it isn’t new, the 24th annual Wellborn Blueberry Festival’s parade will be improved this year.

There wasn’t a parade accompanying the festival two years ago and after it returned last year along with the addition of a car show, the Southern Knights Street Rodders volunteered to put on both events this year, according to festival chairman Wendell Snowden.

“This year we should be going out full blast and doing a really great parade,” Snowden said, adding the theme of the parade, which starts at 10:30 a.m., is “Living the Blues.”

“We had a small car show last year, but it was just a test run. This year we’re going to do a full-blown, judged car show. And they already have a bunch of entries.”

That has Snowden extra excited about the Blueberry Festival, which is Saturday in Andrews Square in Wellborn and is scheduled to run from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The annual pancake breakfast will be served at three locations from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. with two serving locations on the fairgrounds with the third spot at the Wellborn Baptist Church. Snowden said visitors parking at the church will be shuttled to and from the festival, which should help alleviate some congestion and parking issues in downtown Wellborn.

“We’re expecting about 900 pancake breakfasts that we’re going to be selling and serving,” Snowden said, adding that’s a little bit more than what has been served in the past. “That thing is so popular we have to have the three breakfast serving stations.

“That works real well.”

There will also be 100 vendor booths at the festival with plenty of food options as well as arts and crafts to peruse. Snowden said the festival’s food vendor spots filled up two weeks after letters were sent out and the rest of the vendor locations have also been completely filled.

“To have a hundred vendors, a hundred arts and crafts vendors and food vendors, is really good,” he said.

“(We have) just about anything imaginable in arts and crafts.”

In addition to the vendor booths, the Country Store will also be open with homemade blueberry pies, cobblers, jams, jellies and syrups on sale from the Wellborn Community Association.