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Festival Schedule The 76th Annual Azalea Festival — “Go Wild at the Coast” — is a long-standing community event that continues to be led by the Brookings-Harbor Chamber of Commerce as it has been for 76 years. The city of Brookings and other community partners contribute to the event’s success. The fun begins with an exciting parade. Announcements, introductions and entertainment follow at the beautiful Azalea Park, including the traditional shrimp feed. The Street Fair, located in Downtown Brookings, hosts vendors, a petting zoo, large inflatables and other family-friendly entertainment. Carnival rides are a short stroll from the action with your favorite rides and games. More festivities include the Party at the Port, an Art Show, Car Show, Quilt Show, Flower and Plant Sale, delicious barbecue, Pie Sale, and more!
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A bugler plays during the Vietnam Veterans Roll Call, scheduled this year at 6 p.m. Friday.
Thursday, May 21
•10 a.m.-4 p.m.: AZALEA FESTIVAL BOOK SALE. Chetco Community Public Library, 104 Alder St., Brookings.
Friday, May 22
•9 a.m.-5 p.m.: FLOWER SHOW AND PLANT SALE. Chetco Grange Hall, Shopping Center Avenue, Harbor. With a variety of beautiful flowers and plants to view and smell, you will want to buy something for your garden. •10 a.m.-4 p.m.: AZALEA FESTIVAL BOOK SALE. Chetco Community Public Library, 104 Alder St., Brookings. •1 p.m.-until the fun ends: AZALEA FESTIVAL CARNIVAL. Enjoy safe, family fun at the Azalea Festival Carnival on Railroad Street, next to US Bank. Four days of fun right here on the Wild Rivers Coast. Your favorite rides will be featured: Ferris Wheel, Zipper, Sooper Jets, Carousel, Dizzy Dragons and many more. •2 p.m.: GRAND MARSHAL RECEPTION/ICE CREAM SOCIAL. Come and celebrate Betty Jean Waite, the 76th Annual Azalea Festival Grand Marshal and enjoy a scoop of delicious ice cream. Sea View Senior Living, 98059 Gerlach Lane, Harbor. •4-9 p.m.: PARTY AT THE PORT. Vendors, live music, kids’ fun, rides, entertainment, food, car show. Continued on Page 4
• Enjoy the Parade • Visit the Street Fair and Party at the Port • Bring the Kids to the Petting Zoo • Save some money at the many different sales • See the quilts, art, flowers and cars • Ride the carnival rides ... and more
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Festival Schedule
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Thousands line up on Chetco Avenue to cheer on the particiants in the Azalea Festival parade on Saturday morning.
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•6-7:30 p.m. VIETNAM VETERANS ROLL CALL. Please bring a chair, City Hall Flag Pole, 898 Elk Drive, Brookings. •DOWNTOWN SIDEWALK SALES. Downtown Brookings and Harbor. Watch for sales and specials.
Saturday, May 23
•10 a.m.: AZALEA FESTIVAL PARADE. Find a seat along Chetco Avenue between Fifth and Oak streets; cheer on your favorite floats. Dozens of floats, classic cars, fire trucks and much more are represented at the annual parade. •10 a.m.-4 p.m.: AZALEA FESTIVAL BOOK SALE. Chetco Community Public Library, 104 Alder St., Brookings. •10 a.m.-5 p.m.: 32nd ANNUAL QUILT SHOW. Beautifully designed handmade quilts are showcased for
your viewing pleasure. Vote for your favorite quilt at the Kalmiopsis Elementary School, 650 Easy St., Brookings. •10 a.m.-until the fun ends: AZALEA FESTIVAL CARNIVAL. Enjoy safe, family fun at the Azalea Festival Carnival on Railroad Street, next to US Bank. Four days of fun right here on the Wild Rivers Coast. Your favorite rides will be featured: Ferris Wheel, Zipper, Sooper Jets, Carousel, Dizzy Dragons and many more. •11 a.m.-10 p.m.: PARTY AT THE PORT. Vendors, live music, kids’ fun, rides, entertainment, food, car show. Dunk a port employee starts at 1 p.m. A demonstration by South Coast Fitness Center is at 1 p.m. The Cardboard Boat Regatta begins at 3 p.m. Port of Brookings Harbor. •11 a.m.-2 p.m.: AZALEA PARK PROGRAM AND SHRIMP FEED: The Azalea Queen and her Court, Pioneer Citizen, and Grand Marshal will be honored. Music and a deli-
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Fire Chief John Brazil, left, and members of the Harbor Fire Department cruise the parade in an antique fire truck.
cious shrimp dish will be served, Azalea Park. •10 a.m.-7 p.m.: AZALEA FESTIVAL STREET FAIR. Downtown Brookings festivities include vendors, face painting, crafts, food and drinks, giant inflatables, petting zoo and live music with Jazz Sounds by Allison and Victor Martin’s, Rhythm and Blues by George Johnson and the Spence Brothers and more. •11 a.m.-7 p.m.: 76th ANNUAL AZALEA ART SHOW. Art work from youths and adults along the Wild Rivers Coast are displayed for your viewing pleasure. Vote for the People’s
Choice award and stick around for live demonstrations, all at the Azalea Middle School gym, 505 Pacific Ave., Brookings. •11 a.m.-2 p.m.: ANNUAL PIE SALE. St. Elizabeth’s Guild homemade pies; you will have your choice for only $3 a slice or $12 for a whole pie, 401 Fir St., Brookings. •11 a.m.-4 p.m.: AZALEA FESTIVAL CAR SHOW. Come out and view these beautiful cars, Show ‘N Shine, Raffle, live entertainment, Best of Show, beer garden and more, at the Port of Brookings Harbor. Continued on Page 6
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•10 a.m.-closing: AZALEA FESTIVAL CARNIVAL. Enjoy fun, safe, family fun at the Azalea Festival Carnival on Railroad Street, next to US Bank. Four days of fun right here on the Wild Rivers Coast. Your favorite rides will be featured: Ferris Wheel, Zipper, Sooper Jets, Carousel, Dizzy Dragons and many more. •12 p.m.-5 p.m.: FLOWER SHOW AND PLANT SALE. Chetco Grange Hall, Shopping Center Avenue, Harbor. With a variety of beautiful flowers and plants to view and smell, you will want to buy something for your garden. •4 p.m.: PIONEER RECEPTION. Chetco Valley Historical Society Museum. Meet the Pioneer Citizens, Grand Marshal and the Azalea Queen and her Court. Museum open for Memorial Day weekend. •7:30 p.m.: Mary Poppins Family Musical, Brookings-Harbor Community Theater, 97900 Shopping Center Ave., Harbor. 541-469-4700. •DOWNTOWN SIDEWALK SALES. Downtown Brookings and Harbor. Watch for sales and specials. •9 p.m.-closing: BACKSTREET BAR LIVE MUSIC. Kick back with friends and enjoy the blues rock/uptempo sounds of the Spence Brothers, 777 Cottage St., Brookings. 541-412-1444.
•8 a.m.-1 p.m.: ANNUAL ALL YOU CAN EAT BREAKFAST. $7 donation, 5 years old and younger free, Sidney Croft Lodge, 415 Azalea Park Road, Brookings,. •10 a.m.-until the fun ends: AZALEA FESTIVAL CARNIVAL. Enjoy safe, family fun at the Azalea Festival Carnival on Railroad Street, next to US Bank. Four days of fun right here on the Wild Rivers Coast. Your favorite rides will be featured: Ferris Wheel, Zipper, Sooper Jets, Carousel, Dizzy Dragons and many more. •10 a.m.-7 p.m.: AZALEA FESTIVAL STREET FAIR. Downtown Brookings festivities include vendors, face painting, crafts, food and drinks, giant inflatables, petting zoo and live music with Jazz Sounds by Allison and Victor Martin’s, Rhythm and Blues by George Johnson and the Spence Brothers and more. •10 a.m.-4 p.m.: 32nd ANNUAL QUILT SHOW. Beautifully designed, handmade quilts are showcased for your viewing pleasure. Vote for your favorite quilt at the Kalmiopsis Elementary School, 650 Easy St., Brookings. •10 a.m.-4 p.m.: 76th ANNUAL AZALEA ART SHOW. Art work from youths and adults along the Wild Rivers Coast are displayed at the Azalea Middle School Gym, 505 Pacific Ave., Brookings. Continued on Page 7
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•10 a.m.-3 p.m.: FLOWER SHOW AND PLANT SALE. Chetco Grange Hall, Shopping Center Avenue, Harbor. With a variety of beautiful flowers and plants to view and smell, you will want to buy something for your garden. •11 a.m.-6 p.m.: PARTY AT THE PORT. Vendors, live music, rides, entertainment, slug races, car show and more, Port of Brookings Harbor. •1-2:30 p.m.: ANNUAL SLUG RACES. Register at 12 p.m. at Slugs ’n Stones ’n Ice Cream Cones at the Port of Brookings Harbor. 541-469SLUG. $2 fee to bring your own slug or $3 to rent a slug from the famous Slug Ranch. The race benefits South Coast Humane Society. •12 p.m.-3 p.m.: AZALEA FESTIVAL BOOK SALE. Chetco Community Public Library, 104 Alder St., Brookings. $2 bag on Sunday. •12 p.m.-4 p.m.: ANNUAL DEEP PIT BARBECUE. Adults, $12; children 11 years and younger, $6. Enjoy a delicious barbecue and sides provided by Elks Lodge 1934, 800 Elk Drive, Brookings. •2 p.m.: Mary Poppins family musical, Brookings-Harbor Community Theater, 97900 Shopping Center Ave., Harbor. 541-469-4700. •DOWNTOWN SIDEWALK SALES. Downtown Brookings and
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Monday, May 25
•10 a.m.-3 p.m.: AZALEA FESTIVAL STREET FAIR. Downtown Brookings festivities include vendors, face painting, crafts, food and drinks, giant inflatables, petting zoo and live music with Jazz Sounds by Allison and Victor Martin’s, Rhythm and Blues by George Johnson and the Spence Brothers and more. •11 a.m.: MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY ON THE BOARDWALK. Please bring blankets, chairs, Port of Brookings Harbor, 1640 Lower Harbor Road, Port of Brookings Harbor. •DOWNTOWN SIDEWALK SALES. Downtown Brookings and Harbor. Watch for sales and specials.
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Festival queen and court By Bill Schlichting Pilot staff writer
Adelaide Fitzgerald, daughter of Ted and Sharon Fitzgerald, was crowned Azalea Festival queen at the Azalea Scholarship Pageant May 8 at Brookings Church of the Nazarene. Presenting the crown and red cape was 2014 queen Michaela George. Master of Ceremonies Les Cohen, retired Brookings-Harbor Chamber of Commerce executive director, announced the winner. Serving as first runner-up is Courtney Watwood, daughter of Skip and Becky Watwood. Fitzgerald was also chosen by the judges as winner of the talent competition. Watwood won the award for most tickets sold and was chosen Miss Congeniality by her peers. Judges were Roger Meader, Becky Ross, Sheralee Couch and Carol Byers. Judges scores were tabulated by Clar Byers. The event opened with a dance presentation by princesses Fitzgerald, Watwood, Kimberly Medina, Iva Hart and Brittney Lamar. Medina is the daughter of Fabiola Medina and Juan Ruiz, Hart is the daughter of Chris and Nicole Hart and Lamar is the daughter of Jason and Paddi Lamar. Each princess then presented their talent, beginning with Medina performing a lyrical dance with Camarea Freeman, who performed all of Medina’s movements as though an image in a mirror.
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2014 Azalea Queen Michaela George, right, congratulates 2015 Queen Adelaide Fitzgerald.
Hart sang a medley of three songs accompanied by her 8-year-old sister, Alana, on piano; Lamar performed on cello accompanied by Brookings-Harbor High School staff pianist Virginia Riddle; Watwood performed a slow country song dedicated to her family; and finally, Fitzgerald presented an original song titled “Ghost Town,� which she sang while playing piano. When the princesses donned street attire, Cohen introduced the names of their parents, their future plans and career goals. When the evening gown attire was presented, each princess was asked a question that required an impromptu answer. During this phase of the competition, the princesses showed
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Azalea Queen Adelaide Fitzgerald, middle, is surrounded by her court: Courtney Watwood, Kimberly Medina, Iva Hart and Brittney Lamar.
a curtsy and were escorted by members of the U.S. Coast Guard Station Chetco River — Anthony Cisneros, Benjamin Martin, Edward Collins, Travis Hooper and Joseph Bonanno.
Between presentations, entertainment was provided by Brookings-Harbor High School’s Grace Notes and Sea Breeze. Following the pageant, a reception was held in the church fellowship hall.
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Festival Art Show The Pelican Bay Arts Association continues its history of sponsoring the Azalea Festival Art Show. This year’s show will include 218 pieces of art from 57 adult and 69 youth artists. Students of Sheryl Tuttle, the art teacher at Brookings-Harbor High School, will be competing for awards. In addition, younger students who have studied with Brookings artist Janeen Vick will be displaying their art. Monetary awards totaling $465 will be awarded to winners in each classification, Best of Show and the People’s Choice awards for students and adults. Award money has been donated by Coos Curry Electric Co-op, Signatures Gallery, and Dr. Jay Patel. Those attending the show will choose the winners of the People’s Choice awards.  The show will be held in the Azalea Middle School gym from 11 a.m. to 7
p.m. Saturday, May 25, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, May, 26. Azalea Middle School is on Pacific Avenue, between Oak Street and Fern Avenue. Admission is free. “We are staying open late on Saturday evening to give people who aren’t able to attend the art show during the day an opportunity to enjoy the art,� said Cilde Grover, art association board member. “Art is a vital part of our lives and we want to share that with the community.� The event will include art for sale and demonstrations by member artists, in various mediums including, watercolor, pastel, clay and ink. Buzz Stewart, Jay Mosby and Claudia Mach will be drawing portraits from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday afternoon and calligrapher Arline Saul will be doing artistic renderings of attendees’ names both days at 1 p.m.
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Festival history The year 1939 was a happening time in the Brookings-Harbor area with the formation of the BrookingsHarbor Chamber of Commerce and the dedication of Azalea State Park. The chamber’s first president, William Crissey, along with the board of
directors, proclaimed that when Samuel H. Boardman, state parks superintendent, was to come to Brookings to dedicate the park, there should be a big celebration to go with it. The annual Azalea Festival was born.
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in September 1942 by Japanese fighter pilot Nobuo Fujita), travel was restricted, and the festival was suspended until World War II came to an end. When the nation was at peace, the Azalea Festival was revived, a queen was to be crowned, a Wild Hog Barbecue again held, and dances at the Grange Hall were planned. The fledgling Pilot newspaper, which began publication two months before the 1946 festival, announced plans for the return of the festival, which was advertised in both Sunset and Holiday magazines as “a ‘must’ on itineraries for May.� Looking back at the success of the three festivals before the war, Pilot editor and publisher Dewey Akers published an article asking for people who may have room for guests, because of a shortage of motel rooms, to contact him as he was making a list of accommodations. The 1946 festival, referred to in the newspaper as the eighth, was planned and ready to go. Rain didn’t dampen festivities. Queen-elect June Schrader was to be crowned at the park, but the event was moved to the high school gymnasium because of rain, according to Schrader, who is now June Hart and served with her husband, Cecil, as pioneer citizens at the 2014 Azalea Continued on Page 13
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According to the book, “Then till Now,� a history of Brookings-Harbor, organizers went all out in planning the first festival, which took place in May of that year: It included a festival queen and a Wild Hog Barbecue, dances and a banquet. The wild hog, provided by Herbert and Henry Payne, was displayed in a pen. A domestic cousin was barbecued and later the wild hog was returned to the wilderness, according to the book. Marshall Dana, president of the Portland Chamber of Commerce and editor of the Oregon Journal newspaper in Portland, was the keynote speaker at the banquet. Reigning as queen over the festival was Martha Hassett, who was chosen by a community vote and was crowned immediately before Boardman dedicated the park. The success of the festival brought organizers together earlier to begin planning for the 1940 event. Fundraisers began in February with a dance. The festival was planned with many of the same events. The second event was more successful, with an estimated 2,000 people attending from as far away as Portland and Los Angeles. A festival took place in 1941, but later that year, invasion by Japanese forces seemed possible (and the mountains east of Brookings were bombed
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Festival. The Wild Hog Barbecue continued in the park as the rain subsided, and 1,500 people were served. It was estimated that 2,000 people attended the festival, according to the Pilot. New for the 1946 Azalea Festival was the first flower show at the Grange Hall, which was hosted by the Azalea Garden Club. Capping the day’s activities that year was a dinner beginning at 11:30 p.m. following a dance. Festivities ended at 1 a.m., according to a festival program in the history book “Chetco.� Once again, earlier planning made the festival bigger in 1947. For the first time, the festival was held for more than one day, a softball game was added between teams from Brookings and Crescent City, and a street fair and carnival took place on Azalea Park Road, stretching the event from the high school to the park. That year, lily growers in Harbor saw the success of the Azalea Festival
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In 1950, Brookings residents line Chetco Avenue to watch participants in the Azalea Festival Parade.
and decided a similar event could be used to promote the industry. Lily Blossom Time took place in July and introduced a parade to Brookings. Although the general public preferred the Azalea Festival over the lily festival, the rivalry continued, even though there was talk of de-empha-
sizing the Azalea Festival because of the importance of the lily industry. Through hard work and much effort the Azalea Garden Club has convinced people of southwest Oregon and northern California that the festival flower show is an institution of note. This area is famous for its
flowers. To pick one flower for exploiting over all others will not do the community justice as far as Oregon and other states are concerned. ... The Azalea Festival is not tainted with commercialism — it is a display of nature as only this community knows, according to “Then till Now.� By 1954 the Azalea Festival had become a major event, and residents were beginning to feel that staging the Azalea and the Lily festivals was too large a burden for a small community to carry any longer. Following a community vote, the Lily Blossom Festival was shifted to Smith River, where it was staged until its demise in the 1980s. The last weekend in May was fixed as a permanent date for the Azalea Festival and from that point, the festival became the main event for Brookings-Harbor, with an annual parade added and events taking place throughout the community. In 1972, the Chetco Valley Historical Society added the selection of a pioneer citizen.
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Festival pioneer citizens By Bill Schlichting Pilot staff writer
In the Chetco Valley Museum and reprinted in other sources is a photo of what is now the Port of Brookings Harbor. There are two barns in the photo as well as the remains of the railroad trestle crossing the mouth of the Chetco River. Across Lower Harbor Road from the barn in the foreground is a little house. In 1933, this was the house where Bev Stoller was born. Stoller and her husband Gradie “Dee” Sanders have been chosen by the Chetco Valley Historical Society as the Pioneer Citizens for the 76th Azalea Festival. Bev Sanders, who was born to Clarence and Diva (Fitzhugh) Stoller, lived in the little house, where Blue Water Cafe now sits, with her mother and father until she was a teenager. She recalls a swamp between the house and the ocean, the Chetco River cutting a new mouth anywhere between where it exists now and where Best Western Beachfront Inn now stands. When the river became bar-bound, she remembers several people, including Bud McVay’s son, Archie, with hand tools, digging through the sand to drain the lagoon formed by the blocked river. The family did business with neighbor Bud McVay, whose family donated much of the property which the Port of Brookings Harbor now occupies, and knew the pioneer Van Pelt family. Bev could also walk to the only store in Harbor — which was then known as Chetco — Hanscam’s Center. The Sanders family moved upriver for awhile, but when the bridge over the North Fork washed out, they had to move back into town into an apartment above the Nook Cafe. Bev worked at the Nook Cafe. It was here she met Dee Sanders, who
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Gradie “Dee” Sanders and his wife Bev have been selected as this year’s pioneer citizens. Look for them during the parade.
moved to Brookings from Klamath Falls. They got married when she was 17, but the union only lasted four years. Single again, Bev worked at many restaurants while her father purchased and operated Ken’s Tavern for many years. In addition to working in restaurants, Bev worked at bulb farms, peeled chittum, picked berries and eventually did many jobs for her cousin, Jess Fitzhugh, one of three co-founders of Tidewater Contractors.
Meanwhile, Dee returned to Klamath Falls where he worked as a railroad engineer, operating a locomotive on a short line to Bly. Dee remained close to Bev’s parents. In 1971 Dee and Bev married for the second time and it stuck. The couple lived in Klamath Falls until he retired in 1980. They moved back to Brookings. The Sanderses never had children themselves, but have children from previous marriages. Bev has four children, one in Klamath Falls, the other three in Alaska. Dee has
two children, both of whom live in Arizona. The couple also have seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The couple will be riding in a float during the Azalea Festival parade beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 23, will be introduced at the park program at 1 p.m., will be presenting awards and festival shows and will be available for the public to meet them during a Pioneer Citizen’s reception at 4 p.m. at the Chetco Valley Museum.
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