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From Maryfest February 5, 2010 2010 TRAVELING FLOAT SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED The traveling float will make its rounds throughout the Pacific Northwest this year to 26 community parades at press time. We return to Spokane and Portland's Starlite Parade this year as well as going to new cities like Prosser and Odessa. We will also be in British Columbia twice - New Westminster (annually) and Kelowna. To see the rest of the traveling float's schedule, please click here. January 7, 2010 FIRST ANNUAL WINE TASTING EVENT FUND RAISER The Marysville Strawberry Festival is proud to announce its first annual wine tasting event on Thursday, February 4th from 5-8pm at Winestyles (6608 - 64th Street NE #A, phone # 360-658-4850) in Marysville! Please join us at this event to increase community awareness of the Strawberry Festival on the third week of June and to raise money for the royalty scholarships and events! Tickets can be purchased in advance for $25 per person or $45 per couple by contacting Kerri Jorgensen at kerri.jorgensen@gmail.com or (425) 232-6656. Tickets can also be purchased at the door for $25 per person. January 2, 2010 STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS TO BUILD OWN FLOAT THIS YEAR In the December 2009 Board of Director's meeting, it was voted to build our 2010 traveling float in-house. There were several factors that led to this decision. For more on this story, click here. December 29, 2009 SENIOR ROYALTY APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED! The deadline for the 2010-2011 Senior Royalty Court has been extended to Sunday, January 10, 2010. It was discovered that one of the links on our website was directing applicants to last year's applications and possibly causing confusion with potential candidates. That error has been corrected. We apologize for any confusion and encourage any and all students interested in representing the greater Marysville community to please apply! Over $10,000 in scholarship monies will be awarded in our Royalty Pageant this year. To be a part of this exciting event, please click here. December 20, 2009 MEMBERSHIP AND GENERAL PUBLIC NEWSLETTER NOW ON WEBSITE The Berry Patch is a monthly newsletter designed to keep the members and general public informed of projects and decisions made by the Board and committees of the Strawberry Festival in their efforts to produce the annual Strawberry Festival celebration and promote the greater Marysville community area by participating in over 25 community parades throughout the Pacific Northwest. The link for the Berry Patch will be on the left hand navigation bar right below the "Membership" tab. For this month's edition, please click here. November 5, 2009 2010-2011 JUNIOR ROYALTY APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE! Applications for our 2010-2011 Junior Royalty Court are now available. Deadlines for the applications are Saturday, January 30, 2010. If you are ready to have a year full of fun, meet new friends, create memories, develop your speaking skills and enjoy working with people then the Marysville Strawberry Festival Junior Royalty is just for you. The Junior Royalty gets to travel to different parts of Washington State representing the Marysville Strawberry Festival and the Marysville Community. For more information, please click here. December 4, 2009 MARKET IN THE PARK APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE! Jodi Hiatt, Chairperson for the Market Committee reports that the applications for the 2010 Market are now available on our website. Please be sure to read the Committee's Welcome Letter and the Market's rules before filling out the appropriate application. One significant change involves the Concessionaires - the Market will no longer sell ice - leaving the vendors to purchase their ice from local businesses. Deadline for the Concessionaires is May 1st - for everyone else - June 1st. Don't delay! Spots fill up fast! To go to the application page, please click here. November 25, 2009 FESTIVAL BOARD VOTES TO INCREASE SCHOLARSHIP MONIES TO PAGEANT WINNERS During a special Board meeting last night to approve certain line items for the upcoming 2009-2010 fiscal year, one item of note was that the Board felt that scholarship monies for the Royalty Court needed to be in line with that of other festivals of our size. Pageant Chairperson Jodi Hiatt mentioned that our Royalty will typically do over 25 parades per year - more than any other festival on the circuit - and that we should compensate them accordingly. The Board agreed and raised the Queen's scholarship to $5000 from $3000 and each Princess will get $3500 - up from $2000. Also, the Bob Klepper (Miss Congeniality) Award winner prize was doubled to $500 too. Ms. Hiatt was excited by the support from the Board and hopes that this will attract a greater pool of candidates from the greater Marysville area. Also, Ms. Hiatt has extended the application deadline to Sunday, December 20th to give the new prospective candidates additional time to talk to their parents and consider being Marysville Strawberry Festival Royalty in light of these new developments. For additional information, please contact the Festival office at 360-659-7664 or email us at pageant@maryfest.com. November 5, 2009 2010-2011 ROYALTY APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE! Need money for College? Applications for our 2010-2011 Senior Royalty Court are now available. Deadlines for the applications are Thursday, December 10, 2009. Applications for the Junior Royalty will be out in the next couple of weeks. If you think that you would like to represent the Marysville area, make lots of new friends, take a road trip to some pretty cool places all over the Northwest, ride on the one coolest floats in Festival-land AND win some scholarship money for college then please, click here. October 12, 2009 SALMON DAYS PARADE PICTURES NOW AVAILABLE! Our traveling float finished out the regular parade season at Issaquah's Salmon Days Festival Grand Parade and won the Salmbassador's Award with Queen Shelby Hintze aboard. Pictures from this parade (Saturday, October 3rd) are now online and can be seen by clicking here. October 12, 2009 AUTUMN LEAF FESTIVAL PARADE PICTURES POSTED! The Traveling Float committee journeyed over to Leavenworth and brought back the Mayor's Award with Queen Shelby and Junior Princess Sara in the annual Washington State Autumn Leaf Festival Grand Parade. The weather was gorgeous and pictures are now on our site from the parade (Saturday, September 26th) and can be seen by clicking here. September 23, 2009 FESTIVAL BOARD PLANNING RETREAT DATE SET The Annual Planning Retreat date for the 2010-2011 Marysville Strawberry Festival "Summertime Fun" has been set for Saturday, October 17th. It will be held at the new Festival office at 1059-G State Avenue. The morning session is reserved for Board members only. At 1:00pm - the meeting will then be opened up for Event Directors, members, volunteers, vendors, community members and anyone else wishing to participate. For more information, please call 360-659-7664. September 15, 2009 STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL ELECTS NEW OFFICERS AND BOARD The results are in from the membership - and they have selected Angie Miller to lead the Festival in 2009-2010 as President. Angie has served on the Maryfest Board for several years, most recently as Vice President. For more information about the election, click here. September 7, 2009 STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL ATTENDS INAUGURAL TULALIP DAYS COMMUNITY PARADE The Tulalip Tribes held their first ever Tulalip Days Festival this Labor Day Weekend. And their premier event was their Community Parade which we attended. Pictures from the parade can be viewed by clicking here. Our media partners
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