Sequim Blog » Irrigation Festival http://sequimblog.com Photos and news about Sequim Washington and the Olympic Peninsula Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:00:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Irrigation festival http://sequimblog.com/2009/04/17/irrigation-festival/ http://sequimblog.com/2009/04/17/irrigation-festival/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:40:44 +0000 sequimblog http://www.sequimblog.com/2009/04/irrigation-festival/ May 2009 will witness the 114th Irrigation Festival in Sequim. The oldest festival in the state of Washington celebrates the creation of the irrigation ditches throughout Sequim by D.R. “Crazy” Callan; without the water these ditches brought to the dry prairie land, Sequim would not have been able to thrive as it has.

Each year the Irrigation Festival brings together the Sequim community and reaches out to neighboring communities of the Olympic Peninsula and Puget Sound. This year, due to the closure of the Hood Canal Bridge on May 1, the local community will come out in force for the Grand Parade, the ultra-adorable Children’s Parade and new Family Picnic. It is always interesting to browse the Crafts Fair, and amazing to see the wide array of skilled artists in the Sequim Arts Juried Art Show. The Strong Man Competition, in honor of Sequim High Graduate and international strongman Jesse Marunda, is always fun: past highlights include the 900-pound tire flip and the arm-over-arm truck pull. The Northwest’s connection to logging is celebrated with the Logging Show, where participants may throw an axe, saw a log, climb a pole and pull a tractor.

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No Irrigation Festival is complete without the arrival of Carnival; children and adults alike delight in the crazy rides and the carnival food. The traveling carnival has deep roots across America, and stirs memories in older folks even as it creates them in young children. The Funtastic Carnival prides itself on being one of the safest and cleanest traveling carnivals in the states. In addition, it is involved with the communities it serves, notifying locals of employment opportunities, and most important, financially contributing to the Irrigation Festival itself.
So don’t sit this one out. Come to the 2009 Irrigation Festival and see why it’s been around for 114 years.
]]> http://sequimblog.com/2009/04/17/irrigation-festival/feed/ 0 New website for the Sequim Irrigation Festival http://sequimblog.com/2008/01/31/new-website-for-the-sequim-irrigation-festival/ http://sequimblog.com/2008/01/31/new-website-for-the-sequim-irrigation-festival/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:10:55 +0000 sequimblog http://www.sequimblog.com/2008/01/31/new-website-for-the-sequim-irrigation-festival/ Sequim Irrigation Festival Website

The venerable Sequim Irrigation Festival launched a new website this week, sporting a new logo, and the banner artwork for this year’s event, May 3rd – 10th, 2008.

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