May 3, 2011

EMERALD CITY CAR CLUB TO HOST CAR SHOW

The Emerald city Car Club will once again host the 2011 Marysville Strawberry Festival Car Show on Saturday, June 18th from 10am to 3pm at Asbery Field. This event is free to spectators and if you would like to enter your vehicle there's a $10 registration fee. For more information about this event, please click here.

May 1, 2011

ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE & ARTISTS SET  

The Entertainment Committee is pleased to announce the entertainment acts for the 2011 Strawberry Festival. Free entertainment is provided for on Friday evening, Saturday day and Sunday day. To look at the schedule and to see who is performing, please click here.

May 1, 2011

TRAVELING FLOAT SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED  

The Traveling Float will not disappoint Festival goers throughout the Pacific Northwest as the Festival will make two trips into Canada, three trips into Eastern Washington and two trips into Oregon. All told, there are 27 community parades scheduled for our float to make an appearance and to show off our "Marysville Hospitality"! If you would like to volunteer/help the traveling float committee, please contact the Festival Office. To review the Traveling Float schedule, please click here.

May 1, 2011

APPLICATIONS FOR CONCESSIONAIRES ARE NOW CLOSED  

The Market in the Park Committee has met their goal for the number of Food Concessionaires that they will accept into this year's event. We appreciate everyone who has applied and if you were not accepted, please try again for next year. The Market in the Park runs from Friday, June 17th through Sunday, June 19th this year. For more information regarding this event, please refer to the appropriate website pages or contact the Festival Office (360-659-7664).

April 24, 2011

TALENT SHOW DATES SET...APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE!  

The Talent Show Committee has set the Talent Show Finals for Thursday, June 16th this year at 6:30pm. This is a great venue to showcase your amateur talent during Marysville's most celebrated community festival week! For information regarding this event, please click here. Deadlines for entry are Friday, May 13th. Tickets to this event are $5 at the door, $4 if purchased in advance from the Festival Office - call 659-7664 for information.

November 21, 2010

2011 MARKET IN THE PARK APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE

The Market in the Park Committee has finalized changes for their 2011 event. The applications are available by clicking onto this link and reading the Market home page.

New for 2011 - a Non-Profit Organization category. To qualify, the organization must be able to prove their non-profit status.

Deadlines for most categories is June 1st, concessionaires - May 1st. We greatly appreciate the contribution our vendor partners make to the success of our Festival!

October 21, 2010

MARYFEST SPONSORS HOLIDAY LIGHTING CONTEST

The Board of Directors at the last meeting approved a new event for the Strawberry Festival.... a holiday lighting contest!

Entries must be submitted no later than by Wednesday, December 8th to the Strawberry Festival office.

Winners get a chance to win, for more information please click here.

October 20, 2010

2010 - 2012 BOARD AND OFFICERS INSTALLED!

The newly elected members of the Executive Board and for the General Board for 2010-2012 were installed at the annual BBQ held on Saturday, September 11th. Angie Miller was selected as the President, Debbie Libbing will be Vice President, Bobbi Young is the Vice President Elect, Joan Holmes is the Treasurer and Karen Hume fills out the Executive Board as the Secretary. Elected to serve on the Board for a two year term are: Greg Edwards, Janie Fox, Frank Michal, Arvin Van Beek and Jeri Welch. For more on the Board, click here.

September 29, 2010

ROYALTY APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE

The Royalty Pageant committee has now made available all of the information and applications for the 2011-2012 April Friesner Royalty Scholarship Pageant.

Entry deadline for the Seniors is Sunday, October 31st, while entries for the Junior Royalty are due Friday, December 17th.

This year's pageant will be held in February so as for the Festival to avoid potential scheduling conflicts with usage of the High School facility.

If you are interested in becoming part of the the Senior Court, please click here.

If you are interested in becoming part of the Junior Court, please click here.

August 15, 2010

CANDIDATE BIOS FOR 2010 ELECTIONS AVAILABLE

Candidates for the Executive Board and for the General Board for 2010-2012 have submitted their biographies for members to view. If you would like to learn more about a candidate and the position that they are running for, please click here.

Ballots have been mailed to all of the members and should be received shortly. If you did not receive a ballot - please contact our office at 360-659-7664 and ask for one.

They are due back to Maryfest on August 25th at 5 pm - either mailed or brought to the office.

July 7, 2010

GRAND PARADE RESULTS FINALIZED!  

The Grand Parade Committee has finalized the results from this year's Grand Parade and they are now available for viewing, here. Congratulations to the Capital Lakefair Festival (Olympia) for winning the Community Grand Sweepstakes Award AND the Illumination Award! The Tulalip Resort Casino won the Commercial Grand Sweepstakes Award. The Grand Parade Committee would like to thank everyone for participating in this year's parade and we look forward to the competition and pageantry next year!

July 1, 2010

ADULT TRIKE RACES & SHORTCAKE EATING CONTEST RESULTS  

Results from the Adult Trike Races (Friday, June 18th) and the Strawberry Shortcake Eating Contest (Saturday, June 19th) have now been made available and can be viewed here. Tulalip Bay Fire Department took First Place in the Competition Division of the Adult Trike Races and Ricky Hinton, of Tacoma, won the Adult Open-Aged Division of the Strawberry Shortcake Eating Contest. The Strawberry Festival congratulates all participants for their performances!

June 14, 2010

BERRY RUN RESULTS ARE IN! 

Results from our first event, the Summertime Fun Berry Run are now available for viewing. Race Directors Jon Murray and Jeff Sowards report that the overall winners of the One Mile Run/Walk were Rebecca Hulse for the women and Jason Henderson for the men. In the 5K Run - overall winners were Lacey Nation for the women and Kris Mugrage for the men. The Strawberry Festival congratulates all participants for their efforts!

The Berry Run is sponsored by Haggen Food & Drug, The Plant Farm at Smokey Point, Marysville Foot & Ankle and proceeds from the event goes to supporting the Lakewood Sports Booster Club for Cross Country. To see the complete results click here.

June 12, 2010

GRAND PARADE LINE-UP SET! 

The Grand Parade Committee has completed the lineup for the 2010 Strawberry Festival Grand Parade. With over 120 entries, the Committee feels that this year's parade will be of great quality and very entertaining for the spectators. So remember - State Avenue - Saturday, June 19th - at 7:45 PM! BE THERE!

To view the 2010 Marysville Strawberry Festival Grand Parade lineup, please click here.

June 11, 2010

GRAND PARADE APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED! 

The Grand Parade Committee has decided to close down applications for the 2010 Strawberry Festival Grand Parade. The Committee states that this year's parade will have well over 100 entertaining entrants with new participants such as the Penticton Community float and the Wilbur Community float making their first trips to our City. We hope to see you on State Avenue, Saturday, June 19th!

June 8, 2010

FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES STREET CLOSURE INFORMATION 

You know that State avenue will be CLOSED during the Grand Parade....but did you wonder what streets will be closed off (and when) when you want to go to the Festival or where "not to park"? The Festival has published a list of "street closures" for residents, businesses and Festival goers that will occur during Strawberry Festival week. To see the list, please click here.

June 7, 2010

ALL APPLICATIONS FOR THE MARKET ARE NOW CLOSED! 

The Market-in-the-Park Committee has closed off applications for the 2010 Strawberry Festival as they have met their goal for vendors. We'd like to thank everyone that is participating and if you didn't get a chance to be in the show this year, please try back again next year.

June 3, 2010

GRAND PARADE TO BE STREAMED "LIVE" AGAIN! 

Can't make it to the Grand Parade? Or maybe you live outside of the TV coverage (King, Snohomish & Skagit) area? Well, after our successful streamed event last year, the Strawberry Festival and MPHS TV3 are working again with the Highwinds Company from Phoenix to deliver this year's Grand Parade "live" via the internet on this website. Just click onto the "Grand Parade Live" link at the top of the navigation tabs and it will take you to the viewing page.

Highwinds is a content, network and hosted IP services business that offers a comprehensive suite of services including CDN, IP transit, content storage and IP software.  Since 2002, they have provided for the advancement of a wide range of technologies - including messaging bus architecture, network management, distributed file systems and advanced routing methods.

June 2, 2010

"OFFICIAL" STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL PROGRAM TO BE DISTRIBUTED NEXT WEEK 

The Strawberry Festival in conjunction with media partner - the North County Outlook - are excited to announce that the 2010 "Official" Strawberry Festival Program will be distributed "FREE" next week to homes in the greater Marysville area. Inside the program you will find everything that you will need to know to enjoy your Strawberry Festival experience.

We also would like to heartily thank all of the advertisers who participated in the program - it is with your support that we are able to have such a quality program produced! Thank you, Marysville!

To see the cover of this year's program (full size), click here.   

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