Another Chandler Lions Club parade is scheduled for the city’s Pow-Wow in October. Last year, about 5,000 turned out for the day-long event. File Photo CHANDLER — Several vendors have already reserved space for the city’s 22nd Pow-Wow in October, and several features will return to the event --- except for one.

“We won’t have a circus this time,” Chandler Brownsboro Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Bertha Pritchard said. “It was just too much. But we will have a talent show.”

More than three inches of rain were recorded in Chandler for a week prior to Pow Wow last October, prompting the city and the chamber to move the Culpepper and Merriweather Circus from one of Winchester Park’s four ballfields to a parking lot on the south side of Winchester.

More than 200 attended the circus.

Overall, about 5,000 turned out for Pow-Wow, despite misting rain and cool temperatures.

Crowds gather for the Chandler Pow-Wow on Oct 10, 2002. About 58 vendors were at the event. File Photo “We hope to make it better this year,” Pritchard said.

Fifty-eight vendors reserved space last year, and some of the same businesses asked during CityFest July 10 to sign up again.

“I have already rented nine booths, and I have mailed applications. When we had CityFest, people were asking me about Pow- Wow.”

As it did in 2009, the Chandler Lions Club will kick off festivities with a parade.

About 120 entries participated last year.

Food vendors will be allowed to serve one item each, such as catfish, barbeque, fried turkey legs, egg rolls, sausage, hamburgers, hot dogs, cakes, pies, and baked potatoes. In last year’s event, other ven- dors offered crafts, jewelry, apparel, candles, birdhouses and feeders, and other products.

A chili cook-off is also being planned, and children’s activities will be available.

The chamber awards four or five scholarships worth $500 apiece to Brownsboro High School students each year. Winners are chosen by school faculty based on grades, college acceptance, and other criteria.

For information on the 2010 Pow Wow, call the chamber at 903-849-5930.