SEQUIM — A limo ride may be out, but plenty of burgers are in for this year’s Sequim Irrigation Festival button designer winner.
Kendall Adolphe received a certificate and $100 to Shadowline Burgers and Brews for her design work in the festival’s 127th year.
Liz Parks, president of RE/MAX Prime, presented Kendall, an 11-and-a-half-year-old fifth grader at Helen Haller Elementary, with the prizes.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Parks would take the winner and a group of friends to lunch in a limo ride courtesy of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe.
“It’s one of my favorite things to do,” Parks said. “I love the children. I’m disappointed we weren’t able to go on a limo ride for the third year. It’s always a lot of fun.”
For her design that features lavender, mountains and water, Kendall, also a member of Clallam County 4H Junior Royalty, said she was inspired “by the things around her all her life in Sequim.”
Michelle and Emma Rhodes, co-directors of the festival’s button sales, said the buttons will be first available at the festival’s Kickoff Dinner on March 19 at 7 Cedars Casin.
Soon thereafter it will offered at local businesses through mid-May and the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce through the summer. Locations will be posted at www.facebook.com/SequimIrrigation Festival/.
The Rhodes said there were more than 250 entries from children in first-fifth grades in Sequim School District boundaries.
“We are so thankful for the support given by the staff at Greywolf Elementary, Helen Haller Elementary, and Olympic Peninsula Academy,” the mother-daughter team said.
Those who entered did not have to attend a Sequim School District school, organizers said.
Students did not sell buttons for a chance at prizes due to COVID-19 precautions, the Rhodes’ said.
For more on the Sequim Irrigation Festival, which will be from May 6-14, visit irrigationfestival.com/.
Kendall Adolphe said that for her Sequim Irrigation Festival button design she used lavender, mountains, water and more because she was inspired “by the things around her all her life in Sequim.”
