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From Maryfest 2010 STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL - FRIDAY, JUNE 11th - SUNDAY, JUNE 20th March 9, 2010 2010 GRAND PARADE GRAND MARSHALS SELECTED The 2010 Marysville Strawberry Festival Grand Parade Grand Marshals have been selected -and they are Nancy and Jack Bell from Spee Bi Dah, Tulalip. Nancy, the current Treasurer for the Festival is a 26 year volunteer for the Festival and her husband, Jack, has also served in various capacities behind the scenes for the Festival for that amount of time also. Their fifty years of volunteerism will be honored and celebrated at the Grand Parade, Saturday, June 19th at 7:45pm. The Grand Parade will be televised "live" on Comcast Channel 26 and be streamed "live" on this website too. For more information about Nancy and Jack, please click here. February 26, 2010 FESTIVAL MARKETING COMMITTEE ANNOUNCES MEDIA PARTNERS FOR 2010-2011 Genie Brovold, Marketing Committee Chairperson for the Festival announced today that the Festival has come to agreements with the North County Outlook, KRKO 1380 AM Radio and KZOK 102.5 FM Radio for media partnerships in 2010-2011. The North County Outlook (Marysville) will be the "Official" program publisher for the Festival while KRKO 1380 AM Sports Radio (Everett) and KZOK Classic Rock 102.5 FM Radio (Seattle) will market the Festival and do some on site broadcasting. On Saturday, June 19th, legendary radio personality, Spike O'Neill from KZOK will be doing a "live" remote from Asbery Field from 12 noon - 2:00pm. Be sure to visit him! February 25, 2010 GRAND PARADE APPLICATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED! Applications for consideration for acceptance into the 2010 Strawberry Festival Twilight Grand Parade have now been posted online and are available! The deadline for entries is Saturday, May 1st. Maryfest Parade Committee organizers expect over 200 entries for approximately 120 slots in the parade. To read a letter from the parade co-chairs and then move onto the application process, please click here. February 24, 2010 NWFH HOSTING WEEKEND SCHEDULE AND PACKET NOW AVAILABLE TO NWFH MEMBERS The Hospitality Committee has finalized details for the Hosting weekend of our Festival. Our hosting headquarters will be once again at the magnificent Tulalip Resort and Casino - longtime Title Sponsors of our event. To view the schedule and to secure a form to fill out for attending this event, please click here. February 24, 2010 2010-2011 THEME AND FESTIVAL LOGO SELECTED! The Board of Directors have
have selected the theme for the The traveling float will replicate a park setting with a picnic outing and a gathering of various animals and insects. February 23, 2010 PRESIDENT ANGIE MILLER WELCOMES YOU TO STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL 2010-2011! To read Angie's Welcome Letter, please click here. February 16, 2010 2010-2011 PAGEANT CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED! The 2010-2011 April Friesner Memorial Royalty Pageant candidate field has been filled and to see a listing of who will be vying for a spot as this year's representatives for the Festival, please click here. February 16, 2010 2010-2011 PAGEANT DATE SET! The 2010-2011 April Friesner Memorial Royalty Pageant will be held Saturday, March 20th at 7:00 pm at the MPHS Auditorium. Tickets are $10 or $5 for students at the door with a valid school ASB card. We have 9 young ladies running for Senior Royalty and 15 young ladies (all 6th graders) running for the Junior Royalty. For more on this, click here. February 15, 2010 NORTH COUNTY OUTLOOK SELECTED AS OFFICIAL PROGRAM PUBLISHER FOR 2010-2011! President Angie Miller announced today that the North County Outlook was selected as the Official Program publisher for the 2010-2011 Marysville Strawberry Festival. She asks on behalf of the Festival that you please support the North County Outlook when making your advertising decisions during our Festival season. Over 100,000 people will participate in some form in all of the events that we have to offer. You can reach them in the North County Outlook! For Angie's letter announcing the Festival's decision, please click here. 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 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. Our media partners
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79th Annual Strawberry Festival and it will be "Summertime Fun" and the logo for
the "Official" collector pins and T-shirts
are shown here. Please contact the Festival office to purchase a pin or T-shirt.
They will be made available soon. Prices have not been determined at this press
time.
