A chariot ride for the kids is the newest attraction at the 11 th annual Greek Festival at St. Thomas the Apostle Orthodox Church, 4200 South Holiday Avenue in southwest Springfield this weekend. The three-day event is a traditional family-oriented celebration of everything Greek. Jeannie Duffey, a parishioner at the church, visited KSMU again this year to talk up the Festival and its features this year. “We’ve done it so long that we just have it down pat, but we always have other ideas and new things to add. One of our folks in the Greek Festival, Tom Letchworth, last year said, ‘How about a chariot ride for the kids?’ And we said, ‘Whaaat?! Tom, if we do this, we will be the ONLY Greek Festival—and you know there are lots of them all over the country—that’ll have a chariot ride for the kids!’ And darned if he didn’t do it. We’ve got it out there ready to go... and we’ll see.” Weather permitting, of course... “Little umbrellas over the little kids, maybe? We’ll figure it out.” As for
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