Mars high school cheerleaders Erin Sweet, left, and Sammy Rumbaugh hold an apple dumpling as apple sauce is poured on it at Mars Applefest in downtown Mars on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011. Butler Eagle File Photo

Cold weather and constant rain didn’t stop hundreds of people from making Mars Applefest the place to be on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011.

Stretching across several streets and bigger than ever, with more than 100 vendors, Applefest had snacks for the hungry, games for the skilled and strong, and even karaoke for the, at times, tone-deaf.

Some of the earliest-arriving guests decided to work up an appetite for apples by taking a sledgehammer to a car.

The car bash benefited the Lighthouse Foundation’s Wheels of Work program, which buys old cars and repairs them into working condition for low income families.