PIONEER DAYS PARADE
Saturday, August 1, 2009
LAKE CITY
Pictures to come!
by Carol Kapua:
Hi all,
Lake City was our last parade and it was hot. We had Jodi, Debbie, Genie, her
other half - Michael, Chuck, Sara and myself. We got it together but did not get
the dirt blown off so we got second in floats. The judges remarked how dirty it
was. We had to get the trailer to the end of the parade so it did not get blown
off. Sara did her outstanding job and the crowd was nice to us. It was cooler by
the time we go to the end and we put the float away and had our picnic. We then
headed home. Thanks to those who did this parade because it was so hot.
We are leaving for Penticton in the morning and will do their parade on Saturday
morning and from there we will pack up and head for Omak and do their parade
Sunday morning and then pack up and head for home. We have a small crew Tom,
Jodi, Linda H. and myself.
We have been told that Penticton, Horizon Airlines and possibly Omak will join
us next year and also Prosser. We made some very good friends this last year and
connections. We will see.
The next weekend will be Astoria. Those of you that will be going we will be
leaving Thursday morning at 10am. It is a 4-5 hour drive. We take our own food
in order to cut costs and we do have a good time. DC will be wearing his
tutu. Azzlinn won the strawberry eating contest. We are staying at the Dunes
Hotel and it does have an indoor swimming pool so bring your swim suits. Make
sure you bring clothes for any kind of weather. We will be taking the festival
van, The Hintzes are taking their van, the Michals are driving and Walter is
driving the truck and trailer.
We have the following for dinner: hot dogs, hamburgers, sockeye (fresh),
chicken, lasagna, waffles, and pancakes for breakfast, honey, jam, peanut
butter, lunchmeat and cheese for lunch. We need to have salads, and
desserts. Judy is bringing a pasta salad and a potato salad. Cereal for
breakfast, fruit, milk, and whatever else you may want to bring. We will have
some chips and crackers, water and soda. We have a BBQ so we have something to
cook on. If you have an extra toaster you might want to bring that too. All the
rooms have a very small refrigerator in them so some of our stuff that needs to
be in the refrigerator can.
Saturday evening some of you have tickets to go to the show that DC will be
in. You will have front row seats. We will be there Thursday, Friday, Saturday
and come home on Sunday.
If you have any questions please email me or call.
Caboose...... We need to clean all of our stuff out of it and it needs to be
done soon as they want to start repairs soon. We have a new storage locker at
freeway to put the stuff in that we are going to keep and then we need to take
the rest to the dump. If any of you have pickup trucks that would be helpful for
hauling. Angie is in charge of this and just a reminder we need to have an
inventory taken by someone so that we can turn it into our insurance
company. Taking pictures is a good thing - especially of what is going to the
dump. This will take place this Saturday the 8th at 11am. Please contact Angie
in regards to this either by email or phone. You will needs to wear gloves, wear
a mask if you have one and shoes because there is stuff on the floor. Thank you
for all your help.
If anyone needs to get into the storage units I have a set of keys now to all of
the units.
Thanks to all for all that you do to make this a great festival. This is the
time we really need your help.
