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115th Irrigation Festival May 1-9, 2010 1st Weekend Arts & Crafts Fair Saturday, May 1st 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.

Sunday, May 2nd 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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Family Festival Picnic Saturday, May 1st 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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2nd Weekend Grand Parade Saturday, May 8th Starts at noon Downtown Sequim

Logging Show Friday, May 7th 5-11:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 8th 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

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Welcome!

We are so proud to be hosting the 115th Irrigation Festival with the citizens of the Sequim and Dungeness Valley, where we celebrate the irrigation water being mixed with the rich soil to produce the crops vital to the success of our large farming area. As citizens of this valley, we all experience the love of this BORDEN paradise. We salute and do this with pride and dedication to maintain our small- town atmosphere.

The great gift of water has pulled us together in celebration during the first full week in May for the past 115 years. No festival of this magnitude could be produced without the year-round hard work of the festival board of directors and the hundred-plus

volunteers, whose helping hands do the real work of producing all of the events that make up this magnificent festival.

We hope you will enjoy your festival. Invite friends and family that may have moved away to come back and enjoy this great community.

My wife, Tawana, and I want to take this time to send out a special “Thank You” to everyone for letting us be a part of this wonderful festival. Please enjoy your festival; it is a true gem to be enjoyed to its fullest.

We encourage you to take home a souvenir pin, button, T-shirt or sweatshirt to remember your time with us. Festival merchandise is available at the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce Visitor Information Center and area stores.

Thank you for sharing time with us.

Joe Borden

2010 Sequim Irrigation Festival Chairman

Welcome to Sequim, “Where water is wealth.” We are a small rural city situated in the arid Dungeness Valley where we are blessed with bushels of sunshine, glacier-melt river water tumbling and meandering through our valley and just enough rain to grow almost anything.

The motto above tells in a few words the story behind the oldest community festival in Washington, Sequim’s Irrigation Festival, now celebrating its 115th year. Join us in celebrating the heritage and HAYS bounty that is Sequim during our annual spring festival: the parade, the street fair, the open air market, the beautiful valley and all the other wonderful opportunities for recreation and casual living that surround and embrace us.

On behalf of the city of Sequim: the city council, the city staff and all the great folks who live and volunteer in our little patch of heaven. Welcome!

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Fun for the Whole Family!

Saturday, May 1, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Carrie Blake Park and Guy Cole Center Children of all ages will enjoy the Kids Day on Saturday, May 1. The day will be jam-packed with dozens of free activities for children to enjoy. More than 3,000 children and their families participated in Kids Day last year and we hope even more children will take part in a day reserved just for them.

The fun will be inside the Guy Cole Center at Carrie Blake Park where children can participate in an array of activities from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Indoor activities include face painting, model making and crafts, Clallam County Literacy Council, Aspire Academy and the Happy Tymer Clowns. Outside, enjoy Touch-A-Truck.

[ Festival Family Picnic Saturday, May 1, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Carrie Blake Park and Guy Cole Center The Festival Family Picnic is an event for the entire family. Activities include softball and baseball games, a dog park doggie walk and doggie games, Bicycle Poker Run, tractor hay ride, Dunk Tank by the Boys & Girls Club, and pie throwing to name a few.

Kids Day is now at Carrie Blake Park and the Guy Cole Center to make this a truly family event.

KSQM 91.5 FM will be serving awardwinning Jeremiah’s BBQ and pizza from the Pizza Factory will be available.

Demonstrations will be presented by Olympic Disc Dogs, the Boy Scouts of America and the Olympic Peninsula Eagles Minor League Football team.

[ Arts & Crafts Street Fair Saturday, May 1, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sunday, May 2, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Bell Street between Second and Sequim avenues Imagine a street lined with dozens of vendors selling one-of-a-kind art, functional and decorative crafts, helpful garden gadgets and delicious food. This is exactly what you will find at the Sequim Irrigation Festival’s 20th annual Arts and Crafts Street Fair.

The Maypole dance will be held at noon on Saturday.

During the street fair, you will have the opportunity to see original works of art from some of the area’s best photographers, painters and craftsmen. Other vendors will offer unique clothing, leather crafts, handmade toys and much more. Some vendors also will demonstrate their craft by continuing to work on their masterpieces during the fair.

To keep you entertained at the fair there will be a cross section of Pacific Northwest entertainers performing.

A sampling of autos provided by the Sequim Valley Car Club, as well as members of the local Gold Wing Motorcycle club will be on display Saturday.

[ Merchants Street Fair Saturday, May 1, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Washington Street between Sequim and Second avenues

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 525 N. Fifth Ave. Sequim Arts, a nonprofit organization of more than 150 artists living on the Olympic Peninsula, is sponsoring its 34th Annual Fine Arts Juried Show. Entries to this exhibit come from all over the United States, as well as Turkey and South Korea.

Festivities begin on Wednesday, May 5, at 6 p.m. with an artists reception where the judge will award more than $1,500 in cash and merchandise prizes.

The exhibit opens to the public on Thursday, May 6, and runs through Sunday, May 9.

[ High School Operetta “Into the Woods” Thursday, May 6, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 7, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 8, 7 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday, May 13-15, 7 p.m.

Sequim High School Auditorium

This year area merchants are joining in the fun by providing a great shopping experience on Washington Street between Sequim and Second avenues. Washington Street will be closed to traffic and tents will line the street with merchants providing specials and information to let you know more about area businesses. As you wander down the Arts and Crafts Fair on Bell Street, continue your shopping along Washington Street.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if all the fairy tales we grew up with got mixed up together? That is exactly what happens in Steven Sondheim’s musical “Into the Woods.” The tickets for opening day are $7. For all other shows, tickets are $10 general admission or $8 for seniors, SHS ABS members and children 12 and under.

Family price is $40.

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[ Funtastic Carnival

Association Drill Team Saturday, May 1, 2 p.m., Sequim Bible Church The Gold Wing Touring Association, as part of the Northwest Wings Motorcycle Drill Team, will be performing its precision maneuvers on May 1. The Northwest Wings Motorcycle Drill Team and the Gold Wing Touring Association ride to promote safety, as well as goodwill for riders and non-riders alike.

[ Sequim Arts Juried Art Show Reception Wednesday, May 5, 6 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday, May 6-8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sunday, May 9, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Thursday-Friday, May 6-7, 5-9 p.m., Saturday, May 8, Noon-5 p.m.

Sequim High School Green Field Rides and games at the Funtastic Carnival provide fun for the entire family.

[ Crazy Daze Breakfast Friday, May 7, 7 a.m., Sequim Elks The irrigation ditches around Sequim were designed and developed by D.R. Callen.

Because the concept was so far out, he was dubbed “Crazy Cal.” Crazy Daze is Sequim’s way of celebrating and honoring Crazy Cal. During the festival, you may see businesses in downtown Sequim dressing crazy or decorating their windows and stores in a crazy manner.

Cost is $10 per person. Businesses and individuals come in costume, perform skits and have a fun time. Awards are given to the best skits. Whether you come in costume or not, or perform a skit or not, you will have a fun time celebrating Crazy Cal.

[ A Family Favorite: The Logging Show!

Friday, May 7, 5-11:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Blake Avenue lot Learn more about the peninsula’s logging heritage at the Sequim Irrigation Festival’s 22nd Annual Logging Show. This year the show will start Friday night, May 7 from 5 p.m.-11:30 p.m., and continue on Saturday, May 8, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. in the field south of Carrie Blake Park off Washington Street.

The idea for the Logging Show came from lifelong Sequim residents Kevin Kennedy and Dave Bekkevar. The men thought having major events consisting of traditional contests played by loggers would be of interest to Irrigation Festival attendees.

They were right — the logging show grows in popularity each year.

Contestants from throughout the Northwest and Canada will participate.

Competitors can register for the event they want to participate in at noon the day of the show.

Friday night’s events will include chain saw carving and lawnmower races. The Logger's Ball presented by KSQM will follow the Strongman Competition, featuring the Washington Old Time Fiddlers and Robbie Walden and the Gunslingers. The fireworks will take place between sets. Competitions on Saturday will include axe throwing, spar pole climbing, pole falling, hot saws and power saws, hand-bucking, lawn mower races and tractor pulls. In addition, an antique saw exhibit and food vendors are available throughout the day.

The entrance fee is by donation at the front gate.

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EVENTS from page 4

[ Strongman Competition Friday, May 7, 6-8 p.m.

Blake Avenue lot The S e quim Irrigation Festiv al’s Strongman Competition will test the boundaries of physical strength with a variety of contests. The public is welcome to witness the competition on Friday, May 7, from 6-8 p.m.. This free event will be held in the logging show area, which is in the field south of Carrie Blake Park off Washington Street.

Each event will test the competitor’s strength. The arm over arm rope pull with a 4x4 is a brutal test of back, arm and grip strength as the athletes attempt to pull a 4x4 truck toward them using an 80-foot length of rope. In the car deadlift, the athlete who can deadlift a car the greatest number of times in 60 seconds will win. In the tire flip and frame carry, athletes first will flip a 900-pound tire four times. These and other amazing events are sure to be real crowd pleasers.

[ Fireworks Friday, May 7, 9:30 p.m., Blake Avenue lot As part of the logging show, we again will have fireworks starting at 9:30 p.m. on Friday, May 7. You don’t want to miss this spectacular display.

[ First Friday Art Walk Friday, May 7, 5-8 p.m., downtown Sequim Join us for a fun and free self-guided tour of local art galleries, artists’ studios, the Museum and Arts Center and alternative art venues in Sequim.

[ Kids Parade Saturday, May 8, 10 a.m., Washington Street between Second and Fourth avenues The Kids Parade for children age 12 and younger now will take place before the Grand Parade on Saturday, May 8. Categories include cartoon character, storybook character and best-dressed pet. No advanced sign-up is required to enter the parade. Families can create mini-floats on a wagon, dress up their

dog or create a kazoo band to join in the fun.

Line-up for the parade starts at 9:30 a.m. on Second Avenue. The parade starts at 10 a.m. and will go from Second to Fourth avenues on Washington Street.

[ Lo-co-Motion Cruzz Show n’ Shine Parade, Saturday, May 8, 11 a.m., Washington Street (starts at Evergreen Collision lot) Show n’ Shine, May 8, noon-5 p.m., Walmart parking lot Make sure you get your spot early for the car show and parade Saturday, May 8, right before the Sequim Irrigation Festival Grand Parade. Take a trip down memory lane to the bygone era of the Model T. Shake, rattle and roll with the classics of the 1950s. Put the “pedal to the metal” with the muscle cars of the 1970s. Last year there were cars from as early as 1927 all the way up to the present day. Cars came from all over the Pacific Northwest, including Canada, and as far away as Arizona.

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through downtown Sequim to the Walmart parking lot, where the Show n’ Shine will begin at noon. We expect this year’s show to be bigger and better than ever. There will be plenty of awards, including “the people’s choice” for the best of show, raffle prizes and shuttle service to the parade. It is sure to be a fun-filled day for car enthusiasts of all ages.

So shine up the chrome on that classic in your garage and we’ll see you at the Lo-coMotion Cruzz Show n’ Shine.

[ Grand Parade Saturday, May 8, Noon, Washington Street (starts at KeyBank) The Irrigation Festival Grand Parade draws entries from Clallam, Jefferson and Kitsap counties and beyond. Entries include festival grand marshal and pioneers, festival float and other floats and bands from around the state, community groups, business, service groups, youth groups and more.

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Queen Proclamation

All aboard! This year’s Irrigation Festival, a celebration of 115 years of pioneers, already is chugging right along. Our Royalty Princesses Ashley Fuentes, Sarah Berkes and Sierra Shelden, as well as I, Queen Fallon Schneider, are having the time of our lives representing Sequim as the 2010 Royalty court.

Sequim has a unique history that can be seen all around — from the remnants of a railroad at Railroad Bridge Park, to all the irrigation ditches winding through our town. The Grand Parade is a long-standing tradition of Sequim and it is an event that people of all ages can be a part of. With the parade comes the arrival of a fantastic carnival to bring even more excitement to our small town. If all that isn’t enough, we even have the logging show, which will be a fun day for the whole family. Sequim’s history and traditions have helped make our little town the friendly, fun and all-around fabulous place that it is today, and we hope that the Irrigation Festival will put a smile on your face as you discover all the wonderful things that Sequim has to offer!

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History in the making Irrigation Festival board honors Sequim pioneers

Grand Pioneer Dick Shaw, 78

Dick Shaw’s pioneer roots date back to 1890 when his great-grandparents William and Margaret Shaw homesteaded on Lost Mountain after the Civil War. Dick was the youngest of three children born to Rollin and Daisy Clawson Shaw.

Growing up during the Great Depression, all the children had chores. Farms were self-contained with chickens, pigs and gardens. Shaw says “there was lots of food but not 10 cents to go to the show.”

His father was in the forest service until 1948. During the winter, they would work on the stump farm and go to school, and in the summer they would all go to one of the ranger stations or lookouts. He remembers going with the whole family during the summer to the Mount Zion Lookout and living in a 14-foot by 14-foot lookout station. The “best part of growing up was living in the middle of nowhere with my family," he said.

Shaw married Sequim native Evelyn Smelling of the Smelling Turkey Farm on Taylor Cutoff Road. Together they ran the family dairy farm west of Sequim.

He and Evelyn have three children, Timothy, Mark

and Valerie, 18 grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren.

After they returned from the Korean War, his two brothers, Bill and Glen, convinced him to sell the cows and go to college. He graduated from Brigham Young University in Utah and they moved to California where he taught mathematics for seven years. When his mother-in-law was ready to retire from teaching mathematics in Sequim, they convinced Shaw to move back and take her job. He taught at Sequim High School for 30 years. He feels that his children got a good education in Sequim and has taught others who were able to compete at the college level. Shaw tutored in his spare time for many years and was active in the teacher associations where he helped to negotiate for teachers.

He continues to live on what is left of the family farm and lives in his grandfather’s home. They have 12 beef cows, raise hay, garden and have fruit trees. His wife has a green thumb and raises prize dahlias.

Shaw rates his relationship with God, family and country in that order of importance. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a big part of his life and he has been Bishop as well as Stake President in past years.

With more than 100 years of family history in the Sequim area, Shaw and his family believe that being named a grand pioneer is a way to honor and celebrate that heritage.

Grand Pioneer Irene Zeman Danforth, 86

Dick Shaw

Irene Zeman Danforth, youngest of five daughters, was born in 1924 to James and Amelia Zeman on the family farm overlooking Sequim Bay. Her sisters are Alpha, Gertrude, Helen Mersedes and Pearl. The three eldest girls were already mature women having families of their own when Irene was born. Her sisters nicknamed her “Little Reenie.”

Happy memories are of growing up on the 40-acre farm her parents cleared themselves. Farm life included dairy cows, gardens and her job “to feed the chickens.”

She would explore the beach and loved when her nieces and nephews visited because they were all the same age.

Irene Danforth

She remembers her father pruning and grafting trees, which still bear fruit today. He tanned hides and made some of the family shoes, as well as doing taxidermy. She has fond memories of her mother’s baked beans and her sewing the sails for the boat her dad built. She loved all the animals. She and her mother would walk through the woods to visit her mother’s parents up in the Palo Alto area. Evenings would include reading, story telling or her father playing his accordion.

She was 14 when her mother died leaving her father to raise her. She says “Pop could do anything.” He was a fisherman, farmer and a pretty good cook, too. She had a special attachment and affection with her father.

He taught her to be independent and thoughtful of her feelings.

She graduated from Sequim High School. She loved going to dances and met her future husband, Dan Danforth, at a USO dance at the Fairview Grange.

He was in the Coast Guard and stationed at the New Dungeness Lighthouse.

They married in 1945. Her father gave them the little house up the road that she and her dad moved to when they left the farm. The young couple fixed it up and remodeled it as their family grew. They lived in that house for more than 60 years, raising their four children there, Sandy, Larry, Vickie and Christine. She has eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Danforth enjoys her flowers, especially daisies, gardening and singing. She used her artistic imagination to create needed household items as well as making costumes for church plays, Halloween and for herself.

Noted for her great cooking, her children would run

Sequim Gazette home from the school bus when they saw their mother having a tea party with her sisters because it meant she probably was serving her delicious cream puffs. The Danforths enjoyed the outdoors and taking their family on many picnics and camping trips.

They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at the Fairview Grange where they met. When her husband retired, they were able to travel to Hawaii and Europe. She really enjoyed the trip to Czechoslovakia, the home of her father’s family, Joseph and Mary Mashek Zeman.

Danforth feels honored to be recognized as a pioneer because she is proud of her heritage and her father’s dedication to his family.

Honorary Grand Pioneer Thomas Art Boyd, 96

Thomas Art Boyd was born in Port Angeles in 1914 to Edward and Ida Hill Boyd. He had two sisters Juanita and Mary Ellen.

After graduating from Roosevelt High School in Port Angeles in 1933, he and his cousin hopped a freight train to Montana where work was more plentiful. He married his employer’s daughter, Eileen Boardman in 1941. They returned with their two children, Sandra and Thomas, to Sequim in 1946 when his father asked him to come back and work with him in his sawmill.

They had two more children after returning to Sequim, Janis and Carl. Boyd has nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Sequim Irrigation Festival 2010 Boyd worked one year at the sawmill and then bought a dairy farm at the east end of Happy Valley Road. To supplement his income he did miscellaneous work for different farmers, worked as a ditchwalker for the Highland Irrigation District, drove truck for Taylor Transportation and worked for the Sequim Dungeness Creamery. He worked at the Chevron gas station that was located at Second Avenue and Washington Street.

In 1970, he sold the farm and became the owner of the Exxon Station that was located on the opposite corner.

Boyd retired in 1976. His wife, Eileen, died in early 1994 after 52 years of marriage.

Boyd spent 16 years (1972-1989) on the Sequim City Council where he worked with five different mayors and cast the deciding vote to build SARC. He also spent eight years on the Transportation Board and belonged to the Sequim Grange for 37 years. He was a founding member of the Sequim-Dungeness Kiwanis in the early 1970s.

Boyd is a veteran of the Irrigation Festival. The Sequim Kiwanis Club was the organizer of the festival in the late 1970s and early 1980s and Boyd used to work on building the float. They would start construction in the winter once the design committee had the plans for the next year’s float. One of his fondest memories is when Gov. Dixie Lee Ray came to Sequim one year and he gave her a ride on the float around town.

After retirement, he continued to work various jobs, including driving school bus. In 1995, he married Delores Avery.

Boyd says he is honored to be named a pioneer and is certain that he will remember it.

Honorary Grand Pioneer Virginia Duncan Brownfield Dickinson, 89

Thomas Boyd

Virginia Duncan Brownfield Dickinson was born in Bellingham in 1921. Her mother, Maude Staggs Callahan, married Frank Duncan in 1926.

Frank Duncan was born on the Dungeness Valley family ranch in 1893 and was a Grand Pioneer in 1977 for the 82nd Irrigation Festival.

Her family moved to Sequim when she was in the fourth grade. At that time, the population was about 350. She remembers having lots of fun as a kid, playing kick the can, run sheep run and more. In those days the Irrigation Festival was a very special occasion and everyone bought new clothes. The school was in charge of the Irrigation Festival and most of the activities were competitions among the schools. She danced with the Maypole and raced in some of the dashes and bike races. She remembers her second Irrigation Festival the best.

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Virginia Dickinson She was about 10 and one of her cousins, who owned the carnival, would give her and her friends free rides. That meant she had money to buy a hot dog and Kewpie doll.

She and Francis “Dizz” Brownfield married in 1938. During their 10-year marriage, they had seven children: Virginia, Francis, Tom, Gerald, Keith, Dennis and Cathleen. Her husband was a mechanic and bush pilot, and in 1949 he died during a hunting trip while they were living in Alaska. In 1950, Brownfield and her children moved back to Dungeness. She bought the “Blake house” sight unseen. It originally was owned by the lighthouse keeper and she still lives in this more than 100-year-old home.

In the following years, she worked at her parents’ resort, the Duncans’ Dungeness Resort, which included a store, restaurant and hunting cabins, where fishermen and duck hunters would stay. She worked for a time at a nursing home and volunteered at the VFW as well.

She and Jack Dickinson married and they had three children: John, George and Larry. He died in 1997.

She has 23 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren and 7 great-great-grandchildren.

She is happy that the area has grown so that young adults don’t have to leave town to get good jobs. She is very proud to be named a pioneer and most of her children are coming home to be here for the festival and to honor her.

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History of the Irrigation Festival When Sequim eighth-grade history teacher Tricia Billes assigned local history research topics this spring, students Lavee Hess, Kendra Richardson and Mariah Riedel chose the Sequim Irrigation Festival. Their nearly monthlong project included primary sources, such as finding old newspapers, photos and books at the Museum and Arts Center and an interview with 89-year-old Zella Speece, whose father was paid 10 cents to deliver drinking water to the ditch diggers.

The girls constructed two trifold information boards on the facts that they had learned.

“Crazy Callen (D.R.) came up with the idea and thought that water could run uphill and could irrigate the Sequim prairie,” said Richardson. “Later he thought he might at least try his plan. It took a lot of men digging and it cost $5,000. Sequim became green and fertile. When the first ditch was completed on May 1, 1896, they had a big party.”

About the ditches, the girls learned: • Not many people wanted to live in Sequim because of its desert climate. Only a few families farmed by the river before 1890.

• Sequim irrigation was not a popular idea until it actually happened.

• Money was hard to find and the surveyor was partly paid in potatoes. It cost $5,000 to build the irrigation system, a lot of money in the 1890s.

• A wooden pipeline was build to a reservoir on a hill above town; the system relies entirely on gravity from its main source, the Dungeness River, to the reservoir into town.

Festival history ~ 1896 ~ On May 1, 1896, Sequim-Dungeness Valley pioneers took their picnic “fixings” to eat at

Eighth-graders, from left, Kendra Richardson, Lavee Hess and Mariah Riedel researched the history of the Sequim Irrigation Festival and show off the display boards they designed.

Gazette photo by Patricia Morrison Coate D.R. “Crazy” Callen’s farm near what is now the intersection of Sequim-Dungeness Way, Old Olympic Highway and Port Williams Road. They had no idea they were initiating a tradition that would become the oldest continuing festival in Washington state.

The year before a group of men had been persuaded that the Dungeness River could be used to irrigate the parched prairie. They incorporated a company to build ditches and sold shares of stock at $5 each.

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to wash clothes and to keep the family clean.

As an added benefit — until screens were put across the head gate — it was possible to go out to the ditch and pick up a handful of fish.

~ 1897-1908 ~ In 1897, the May picnic was repeated — this time near Charlie Fitzgerald’s farm just west of Callen’s. After a few more years, the picnic was moved onto the school grounds closer to town and became more elaborate.

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On May 1, they lifted the head gate to let the water flow. After a few minor problems were solved, waiting women and children saw the dry ditch fill with water. It worked! Water ran uphill from the river to the prairie!

Every man who had invested would benefit from the ditches that soon crossed the valley.

Some anticipated an increased value in their land. Others looked forward to growing more lucrative crops. Women benefited, too. There would be water in the nearby ditches in which

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Teachers worked hard to teach children how to dance around a Maypole. A pretty eightyear-old girl with a blue ribbon in her hair was selected as the first May queen in 1908.

Adults had their own activities. Horseracing always had been popular in Sequim. “Smokers” competed with dances for attention in the evening. Until prohibition, a beer garden was a popular gathering place for men.

~ 1913-1919 ~ In 1913, a carnival — complete with merry-go-round — was hired from Seattle.

Barnstormers landed in nearby fields and offered rides in their flying machines. In 1919, a balloonist was a special feature.

As the festival became more organized, committees were established. Eventually, different service organizations volunteered to make arrangements. Each group tried to outdo the activities of the previous year.

~ 1920 ~ The first two-day festival was held in 1920.

A band led a parade of participants in crepe paper-decorated automobiles from the Hotel Sinclair (at Washington Street and Sequim Avenue) to the athletic fields. A teenage girl was crowned Queen of the May. Carnival games offered prizes. There was dancing in the afternoon on a new concrete slab poured for the festival. That year more than 375 cars were counted in the parking lot. Half of them were Fords.

After trying different dates, it was agreed to hold the festival on the first Saturday in May rather than on May 1. That way farmers could come to town and “play” without feeling guilty about leaving farm chores. On a Saturday, visitors from Port Angeles and Port Townsend could come and enjoy the weekend of festivities.

~ 1935 ~ Opening day began with the arrival of five airplanes and the dedication of the Sequim airport on Bell/Burrowe land behind the old Pioneer Cemetery. The festival queen christened an airplane named City of Port Angeles. The silver crown worn by the queen was made of cardboard covered with foil from gum and cigarette wrappers. She had collected the foil and made her own crown.

~ 1968 ~ The logging festival and a demolition derby were part of the organized festivities.

The logging festival has continued, but the demolition derby was held only for a few years.

Eventually, the Irrigation Festival became a weeklong event. Special activities were

Sequim Irrigation Festival 2010 planned for each day, in addition to the big parade and the carnival. The Pioneer Association began to identify grand pioneers to honor the early settlers whose visions and sacrifices contributed to the history of the valley. Some of the earliest grand pioneers had been children playing in Callen’s fields at that first celebratory picnic.

In its second century, the Irrigation Festival has been extended to 10 days of celebration with children’s activities the first weekend and the grand parade, carnival and adult activities the second weekend.

~ The ditches today ~ The vast majority of the irrigation water still is flowing through open ditches with approximately 170 miles of open irrigation ditches and pipelines in the Dungeness Valley.

Fewer than 60 miles of the total system are in pipes, leaving more than 110 miles in open ditches.

Every May, during the Irrigation Festival, Sequim remembers the men who hand-dug the ditches more than a century ago and the women and children who waited for the miracle of seeing water flowing uphill from the Dungeness River across the parched Sequim prairie.

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Irrigation Fest Royalty Queen Fallon Schneider Sponsor: Tom Plaza Jewelers

Sitting on the curb watching the parade, a young Fallon Schneider was in awe of the princesses and royalty going by. “They were so magical and elegant and they waved right back at you and made you feel special.” She is very excited to have the opportunity to be a role model to young children.

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Kim Schneider. She was born in Sequim and with the exception of one year, has lived here her whole life.

As part of the Shiso City exchange program, Schneider had the opportunity to go to Japan in her freshman year. This adventure “changed her life.” It exposed her to a different culture and gave her the travel bug. Because of those experiences, she is very interested in anthropology and learning about human origins and how people interact. She plans someday to work at the United N Nations, which will allow her to fulfill h goal of working in international her r relations and traveling.

Schneider is very passionate about m music and plays many instruments i including B-flat clarinet, bass c clarinet, contrabass clarinet and th piano. She plays in the Sequim th the H High School’s Wind Ensemble and w chosen to be a member of the was W WMEA All-State Band.

Schneider is an endurance runner a and participates with the cross c country team in the fall. She also e enjoys playing tennis and hiking.

As president of the Interact C Club, an extension of the Sequim R Rotary, she is working this year t raise money for a ShelterBox. to S Schneider is a member of the H Honor Society, which in addition t maintaining a high grade-point to a average, does volunteer work in the c community.

As a member of the W Women in Networking program, s participates with the Soroptimist she C Club to help women of all ages build c confi dence and team-working skills, llo o at nontraditional careers and look w work toward empowering women.

D During the summers, Schneider w works as a program aide for the S Sequim Girl Scout Day Camp, where s she gets involved with teaching

songs, crafts and other skills to the girls at the camp.

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“Sequim is a warm and welcoming place and it is so pretty here,” says Sierra Shelden. She has lived in lots of different places and is happy to be in Sequim. Born in Texas, Shelden is the 16-yearold daughter of Tara and Tony Bush and has two younger brothers, two older sisters, two cats and a fish. She loves children and plans to major in children’s therapy or elementary education at the University of Washington.

Shelden is very excited and is enjoying being a part of the royalty. She is enthusiastic and social, and sees that being a part of the Irrigation Festival royalty is going to give her many opportunities to meet people in other communities and make new friends.

Shelden wasted little time getting involved in school groups. This is her second year of cheerleading and she has enjoyed working with Wolfpups cheerleaders. She is president of the Random Acts of Kindness club, a member of Link Crew, which works to help freshmen be more successful in high school, Honor Society and is with Women in Networking. She is part of the Leadership Class at Sequim High School and enjoys planning what happens at school, including assemblies, blood drives, dances, etc.

When she has some free time, Shelden enjoys shopping and spending time with friends doing fun things. She loves children and likes to be around them as much as possible.

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Princess Sierra Shelden community service is something that Fuentes enjoys and is excited at the prospect of meeting lots of people over the course of the next year.

Fuentes is the 18-year-old daughter of Mary and Milton Fuentes and has lived in Sequim all her life. Fuentes enjoys spending time with her family, which also includes an older brother and their dog, going on hikes, taking trips to the beach and shopping trips to Seattle. When she is not spending time with family, she enjoys hanging out with her friends, going to movies, volunteering at her church and more shopping.

Family is important to Fuentes and she hopes to have a big family of her own one day.

Fuentes is intrigued by the law and plans to major in criminal justice at either the University of Washington or Western Washington University.

She believes that being a prosecutor “will make me want to come to work every day.”

Participating in Random Acts of Kindness is one way that Fuentes has a chance to make everyone’s day a little bit better. She belongs to the Soroptimist Women in Networking program, working to help women of all ages, and has an opportunity to help freshmen become successful

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Princess Ashley Fuentes in high school as a member of Link Crew.

Fuentes is very excited about the year ahead and “can’t wait to be in the festivals and meet people” around Western Washington.

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The opportunity to meet lots of new people excites Sarah Berkes as she begins her journey as an Irrigation Festival princess. Berkes constantly is smiling and hopes to inspire others as she fulfills her role over the coming year.

Berkes is the 17-year-old daughter of Ken and Paula Berkes. She was born in New York, but her family has lived in this area since she was 4 years old. She has an older brother, John, who is a freshman at Gonzaga University.

An opportunity to job shadow Eddie Bauer’s vice president inspired Berkes to make fashion a central element of her future. She plans to go to Pepperdine University or Santa Clara University where she will major in business and minor in journalism. Combined with her love for fashion, Berkes plans to become a fashion

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Princess Sarah Berkes magazine editor.

Community service is a major component of Berkes’ school-related activities, as she is part of the Honor Society and the Interact Club, is a member of the Future Business Leaders of America, Random Acts of Kindness and Women in Networking, as well as secretary of the International Club. Berkes loves to run for fun, as well as bike and walk.

During her summers, she volunteers at the Children’s Montessori School in Port Angeles, and has spent the past five years involved in the Teddy Bear Tea, an Olympic Medical Center function. She has been involved in her church’s efforts to raise money to build wells in Uganda and hopes to travel there in the next couple of years.

Berkes is a dichotomy in that she appears to be a “girly girl” whose clothes and makeup always are perfect, but she also lets her “tomboy” side out when she can be found wakeboarding, sledding and playing X-Box.

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From left, Sarah Berkes, Fallon Schneider, Sierra Shelden and Ashley Fuentes sing and dance to their traveling song at the Sequim Irrigation Festival pageant.

Gazette photo by Patricia Morrison Coate

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Irrigation Festival Junior Royalty Junior Royalty are selected from thirdgraders who enter the contest “Why I like living in Sequim.”

Kelly Meyer Helen Haller Elementary Sponsor: Steven Bacon Family Counseling Kelly is the 9-year-old daughter of Corey and Rachel Meyer. She is a cheerful, bright, caring and energetic girl. She enjoys sports, reading, arts and crafts and playing with her brothers, sisters and her parents.

She loves being outdoors, climbing trees, building things and taking care of her many animals.

Essay: I like living in Sequim because: 1) it is a small town with lots of farms.

There’s lots of farms because we have Irrigation.

2) Because I have lots of family here. I am the 7th generation of my family to live here 3) In Sequim I can go hiking, biking, boating, fishing, hunting, sledding, camping.

And it’s never too hot, too cold or too rainy.

4) In the summer I can go blackberry picking in the woods with my Grampa. We make great blackberry pies!

5) Being part of the Irrigation Festival would be exciting and part of a Sequim tradition.

Elizabeth Sweet Helen Haller Elementary Sponsor: Sunny Farms The daughter of Ronald and Sherrie Sweet, Elizabeth is an intuitive 9-year-old with wide and varying interests. She loves to play sports such as soccer and football with her friends at Helen Haller Elementary.

Elizabeth also loves reading, especially adventure series such as “The Spiderwick Chronicles.” Her favorite subjects in school are math, science and writing. She is learning piano in her spare time.

Essay: When I look around I feel relaxed. Being surrounded by animals and flowers of every type. Even in winter I remember the warm days of summer and the sunshine that fills

He likes to visit his Papa and Grandma, who live across the street, and loves holiday parties at their house where he gets to see his cousins. He also likes to help his Papa with chores outside, especially on the John Deere tractor. Blake loves to vacation with his family. A couple of his favorite vacation spots are Kahneeta, a hot springs in Oregon, and Disneyland.

Essay: I like living in Sequim because I love golf on the golf course. When the sunset goes over the mountains it is very beautiful and all the trees, flowers and animals make Sequim a great place to live. At the spit, the lighthouse shines all over the water. The weather is nice so I can go outside and play with my dog Bolt. I really like my school, Greywolf Elementary, because it’s where I spend time with my friends. I like Sequim most of all because it’s where my Papa and Grandma met and got married. Now my whole family, like my aunts, uncles and cousins live here, and this is where I will stay here in Sequim.

the air. I like having many friends in Sequim that I can count on no matter what happens.

I love being able to see special things in Sequim like eagles flying over me and elk crossing the highway at dawn. Hearing the frogs and owls soft croaks and HOOs in the night. I am glad that the Olympic Mountains provide us water and hills to sled and ski on snowy winter days. That is the reason I like Sequim.

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Essay: I don’t like living in Sequim — I LOVE IT! Why do I LOVE living Sequim? There are so many awesome attractions … like the Lavender Farms and Festivals, the Olympic Theatre Arts, the music in the park, fishing, the Missoula Children’s Theater, and best of all (drum roll please!!) the Irrigation Festival and Kiddies Parade.

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I’d give you more but I’m out of time so I guess this is: Junior Royalty is introduced at the Sequim Irrigation pageant. From left are Kelly Meyer, 2009 Queen Holly Hudson, Blake Wiker, Elizabeth Sweet, THE END!!!!! and Damen Little.

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Grand Marshals Bob and Elaine Caldwell Bob and Elaine Caldwell both grew up in upstate New York. During their time together, they have had the opportunity to live all over the country and in India.

They have two daughters, Margot and Janette, and four grandchildren. Their oldest grandchild is about to graduate from high school.

Elaine started teaching junior high school in 1961.

Bob was a soil and water conservation specialist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They fell in love with the Pacific Northwest many years ago and had an opportunity to move to Portland in 1980. They retired in 1994 and moved to Sequim.

With his agricultural background, Bob was asked to be a part of the county growth management efforts and to help examine options for protecting the county’s rich farmland. Through that work he and his colleagues decided to bring in the power of nonprofits and foundations and thus Friends of the Fields was formed.

It was incorporated in late 1999 and received nonprofit status in 2000. So far they have protected 151 acres of farmland through a perpetual easement so that it will be farmland forever.

Elaine enjoys painting and started painting sets for the theater. When they had to move out of Howard

Wood Theatre, she was instrumental in the purchase of the church that now houses Olympic Theatre Arts.

Elaine did the fundraising to raise the down payment for the building and land. OTA bought the building in 2001 and moved into the building in 2003. The campaign to renovate it started right away. Code conflicts led to a closure in 2006 and it took three years to complete enough of the renovations to be able to move back into the theater in September 2009.

The Caldwells are in awe of the number of people and businesses that came together to make these renovations possible. Elaine feels that a “lot of things have happened over the last few years to keep hope alive and there were many mini-miracles of giving that kept it going.”

Bob stepped in to manage the construction of the theater renovation after the closure and is the chairman of the building committee for OTA. He also got involved in building sets for the theater and likes doing it because “it gives me a chance to create without having to obtain building permits.”

Bob and Friends of the Fields have been instrumental in getting the Community Organic Gardens of Sequim started. It began when two high school students wanted his help to save farmland for an ecology club project.

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Because that is a complicated and lengthy process, they focused instead on helping to create a local organic food supply. The Community Organic Gardens of Sequim project was born from that request.

The Caldwells both have a long list of other accomplishments and causes they support. They include the Sequim Community Foundation, Sequim Humanities and Arts Alliance, First Choice Professionals, Dungeness River Management Team, Dungeness Irrigation Group, Peninsula Evangelical Friends Church and much more. They work tirelessly for the community, the arts, saving farmland and supporting and encouraging a better way of life in Sequim. They were named Citizens of the Year for 2006.

When asked how they feel about being named Grand Marshals for the Sequim Irrigation Festival, they said they are “humbled, honored and having a good time.” As Bob says though, “You may be a peacock today but tomorrow you may be the feather duster.”

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As is tradition, the 2010 Sequim Irrigation Festival royalty pose at the Dungeness River irrigation ditches' head gate.

Gazette photo by Patricia Morrison Coate

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Design Winners Logo winner

Lina Jusell from Port Angeles was the winner for her design for the 2010 theme of “115 Years of Pioneers.”

Jusell was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her background is in graphic design and illustration. She graduated from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, Pa., with a bachelor’s of fine arts degree in graphic design. She worked for Nike for 11 years and then Adidas America for three years. She moved to Port Angeles from Beaverton, Ore., in 1999, and has family in Sequim, Port Angeles and the Portland area.

Jusell has done freelance designing and illustration on and off since moving to Port Angeles. Her theme (“Plenty to See From A-Z”) was selected for the Clallam County Fair in 2009. She has had the pleasure of designing the logos for Healthy Families of Clallam County, the Port Angeles Community Multi-Cultural

Alliance, the Portland Raiders Semi-Pro football team, the 112th Sequim Irrigation Festival Logo and now Sequim’s 115th Irrigation Festival.

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The winner of the Festival Button design contest is Amber Lamb. She is a fifth-grader in Jennifer Lopez’s class at Greywolf Elementary School.

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2010 Schedule of Events Opening Day Ceremony and Boat Parade, John Wayne Marina, Sequim Bay.

Saturday, May 1 10 a.m.-5 p.m. • Arts and Crafts Fair Handcrafted vendors’ booths, live entertainment, classic car show, Bell Street 10 a.m.-5 p.m. • Merchants Street Fair, Sequim businesses have booths along Washington Street between Sequim Avenue and Second Avenue 10 a.m.-4 p.m. • Festival Family Picnic, softball and baseball, dog games and other activities for the family, Carrie Blake Park Guy Cole Center 10 a.m.-3 p.m. • Gold Wing Motorcycle Display, with the Arts and Crafts Fair. People’s Choice Award, Bell Street

2009 Irrigation Festival royalty take part in a tug of war contest at last year's logging show.

Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

the door, Sequim Elks Club 10 a.m.-5 p.m. • 34th Annual Sequim Arts Juried Art Show and Sale, open for public viewing, free, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 525 N. Fifth Ave.

2 p.m. • Gold Wing Touring Association Drill Team, Sequim Bible Church

Sunday May 2 10 a.m.-4 p.m. • Arts and Crafts Fair Handcrafted vendors’ booths, live entertainment, Bell Street

Thursday May 6 10 a.m.-5 p.m. • 34th Annual Sequim Arts Juried Art Show and Sale - Open for public viewing, free, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 525 N. Fifth Ave.

11 a.m.-2 p.m. • Kids Day Touch-A-Truck, Kids Fair, face painting, model making, crafts, entertainment for all ages. Guy Cole Center in Carrie Blake Park

5-9 p.m. • Funtastic Carnival - Sequim High School green field

Noon • Maypole dance with Arts and Crafts Fair, Bell Street 1:30 p.m. • Sequim Bay Yacht Club

Friday, May 7

4 p.m. • Operetta, “Into the Woods,” Sequim High School Auditorium, $7 tickets for opening day 7 a.m. • Crazy Daze Breakfast, $10 at

3-5 p.m. • Past Royalty Luncheon, by invitation only, Oak Table Café, 292 Bell St. 5 p.m. • Annual Pioneer Dinner, by invitation only, Macleay Hall (Sequim Prairie Grange) 5 p.m. Social, 6 p.m.

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7 p.m. • Operetta, “Into the Woods,” Sequim High School Auditorium, Tickets $10 general admission, $8 for seniors, SHS ASB members and children 12 and under.

5-8 p.m. • First Friday Art Walk, Downtown Sequim, Reception at Blue Whole Gallery 9:30 p.m. • Fireworks, Blake lot with the Logging Show

Saturday, May 8 6:30-11 a.m. • Pancake Breakfast, sponsored by Sequim Valley Lions Club, Sequim Senior Activity Center, $5 for adults, children under 5 free.

10-11:30 a.m. • 2010 Irrigation Festival Stamp Cancellation and Cachet Envelope Sales, Sequim Avenue and Washington Street 9 a.m.-noon • VIP Soroptimist Luncheon, all visiting royalty and float personnel, KeyBank, Dunlap Avenue at Cedar Street 9 a.m.-3 p.m. • Sequim Open Aire Market, Cedar Street between Sequim Avenue and Second Street 10 a.m.-5 p.m. • 34th Annual Sequim Arts Juried Art Show and Sale, open for public viewing, free, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 525 N. Fifth Ave.

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10 a.m. • Kids Parade, Fir Street and Sequim Avenue 10 a.m.-5 p.m. • 22nd Annual Logging Show Truck & Tractor Pull, lawnmower races, food, arts and crafts, donation at door, Blake lot next to Carrie Blake Park 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. • Shriner's/KSQM Luncheon, Masonic Lodge, South Fifth Avenue and Pine Street. All-you-can-eat ice cream bar, hot and chili dogs, chips and beverages. Adults $10, children 12 and under $5. Proceeds benefit KSQM 91.5 FM 11 a.m.-6 p.m. • Annual salmon barbecue at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 Blake Ave. Meals are $12 for adults and $4 for children under 13. The church is between the festival’s logging show and Carrie Blake Park.

For information, call at 683-5367 11 a.m. • Lo-co-Motion Cruzz Car Parade, Washington Street from Evergreen Collision Repair to Seventh Avenue Noon • 115th Irrigation Festival Grand Parade, organized by the Rotary Club of Sequim, Washington Street Noon • Funtastic Carnival, Sequim High School green field

Members of the Sequim High School band greet the crowd at the 2009 Irrigation Festival Grand Parade.

Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

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7 p.m. • Operetta, “Into the Woods,” Sequim High School Auditorium, Tickets $10 general admission, $8 for seniors, SHS ASB members and children 12 and under.

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2010 Irrigation Festival Board Two Rotary clubs support parade

Since 1950, the Sequim Rotary Club (noon club) has been responsible for organizing and handling the Grand Parade on the second Saturday of May. Every year Rotary members manage more than 125 parade entries, walking the parade route.

The parade follows Washington Street and starts at noon from 802 E. Washington St. (Les Schwab’s parking lot) and finishes at Seventh Avenue (JCPenney’s parking lot). Come early, bring a seat or rent one from a friendly Rotarian and enjoy community fun at its best.

Kids Day (Saturday, May 2) The Sequim Rotary Sunrise Club supports Kids Day. Four hours of fun, games and big trucks — all free for the entire family at Carrie Blake Park.

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