Come the first Saturday of every month, Ringgold Mexican restaurant La Adelita takes on a festival flair. It's not the gauchos and twirling skirts of the native culture that enliven the atmosphere, but something uniquely American.
The restaurant is the site of a new Rockabilly Hotrod & Bike Fiesta, and the next is being held Sept. 10 from 3-9 p.m.
The event features Heels for Combat Boots models raising funding for military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. The models sell calendars, dog tags, books, coloring books and T-shirts.
Moo2 Photos & Events Magazine owners Chuck Welch, of Lookout Mountain, Ga., and his girlfriend, Tina Garnica, of Ringgold, sponsor the fiesta which is, in part, an homage to one of the driving forces in Welch's life.
"I was raised by my Uncle Gus," Welch said. "He was a boilermaker and built race cars midgets and hardtops in the late '50s and early '60s.
Email Katie Ward at kward@timesfreepress.com.