Rick Bellinger, owner of Riverside Grocery in Benton, weighs crawfish before the Benton Area Chamber of Commerce’s Cajun Feast crawfish-eating contest Thursday. The event was held at the First United Methodist Church’s Christian Life Center. The crawfish competition was sponsored by Riverside Grocery and included contestants Larry Lagande, Chase Shelnutt, Lisa Toms, Daniel Robinson, Michael Perkins, Travis Hester, Chris Williams and Denny Dyer, owner of Denny Dyer Plumbing Co., was sponsored by Bo’s Bar-B-Q in Benton. Dyer won the crawfish-eating contest and received the first crawfish-eating trophy. (Courier photo by Matt Burks)