SEQUIM — More than 100 marching groups, bands, vintage cars and floats paraded along Washington Street in Sequim on Saturday during the grand finale of the 115th annual Irrigation Festival.
A high point of the Grand Parade was the Irrigation Festival royalty on the float that will participate in festivals all over the Northwest: Queen Fallon Schneider and Princesses Sarah Berkes, Ashley Fuentes and Sierra Shelden.
Other royalty also graced the parade, including those waving from Port Townsend’s Rhododendron Festival float.
The grand marshals were Bob Caldwell, co-founder of the Friends of the Fields farmland preservation coalition, and his wife, Elaine Caldwell, a tireless promoter of Olympic Theatre Arts.
Joining them at the front of the procession were grand pioneers Dick Shaw, 78, and Irene Zeman Danforth, 86, and honorary grand pioneers Thomas Art Boyd, 96, and Virginia Duncan Brownfield Dickinson, 89.
More than three dozen events made up the two-week irrigation festival, with everything from a special Kids Day to the Logging Show, the Strongman Competition, a carnival, a special Loggers Ball, arts and crafts, and of course, fireworks.
Those who missed Sequim Arts’ juried show and sale can see it today.
It will be on display from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in St. Luke’s Parish Hall, 525 N. Fifth Ave.
Like most of the Irrigation Festival events, admission is free.
