{"id":33379,"date":"2019-06-03T18:29:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T02:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=33379"},"modified":"2023-12-20T21:44:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T05:44:11","slug":"western-weekend-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=33379","title":{"rendered":"Western Weekend 2019 ’twas a colorful celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Junior grand marshal.<\/strong> Heidi Gonzalez, a junior at Tomales High, was named junior grand marshal of Sunday’s Western Weekend parade. She earned the title in competition with two other young women by selling the most raffle tickets; half the proceeds were allocated to nonprofits and the other half to furthering their education.<\/p>\n

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The bagpipers in Sunday’s parade carried placards that read: “What’s on Our Streets Flows into Our Creeks” and “Please Pick It Up, Every Little Bit Helps.”<\/p>\n

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Dancing down the parade route was a group from Esfor\u00e7o Carnival, San Francisco.<\/p>\n

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Also dancing in the street were Aztec dancers, a highlight of every parade.<\/p>\n

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At the head of the parade was a procession of fire engines, as is also traditional.<\/p>\n

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The parade entry of KWMR FM won first place in the adult-float category of the parade. Four baby goats owned by truck owner John Roche Services, which uses goats to trim grass, were in the cage at right. In the center clapping is my wife, Lynn, a member of the community-owned radio station’s board of directors.<\/p>\n

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Coco McMorrow, 14, of Inverness was one of two deputy junior grand marshals of the parade.<\/p>\n

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Deputy junior grand marshal Hana Cassel.<\/p>\n

The weekend was so packed with public events that I’ll spend a moment now showing snapshots of the main ones.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Point Reyes-Olema 4-H Club members get training Saturday for the rabbit-show competition in Toby’s Feed Barn where most of the festivities were centered. Back in the 1970s and 80s when there was more ranching in West Marin, horses and livestock were a major part of the “4-H Junior Livestock Show,” as the celebration was then called. No more.<\/p>\n

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Inside the Feed Barn’s gallery was a display of children’s arts and crafts. The caption on this display explains, “DeeLynn Armstrong’s 1st grade class at Inverness School, alongside Esther Underwood’s 5th grade class at West Marin School, created a rainbow mosaic using recycled plastic bottle caps.”<\/p>\n

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“Melissa Reilly’s kindergarten class at Inverness School studied animal habitat and made snakes from felted wool. The process starts with raw, unspun wool which is wetted with soapy water,” explained the caption. “The snakes are shaped by hand and once dry, the wood fibers contract and become felted. This project was facilitated by Jillian Moffett.”<\/p>\n

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A Saturday evening barn dance was held in, appropriately enough, Toby’s Feed Barn. With a band and a caller setting the pace, children and adults took part in a variety of line dances.<\/p>\n

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Angelo Sacheli (center) describes the low-cost-housing accomplishments by Mark Switzer (left) in naming him grand marshal of Sunday’s parade. Avito Miranda prepares to translate the remarks into Spanish.<\/p>\n

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Competitors in the junior grand marshal ticket-selling competition were (from left): Coco McMorrow, Heidi Gonzalez, and Hana Cassel. Miss Gonzalez ended up junior grand marshal while Ms. McMorrow and Ms. Cassel were named deputy junior grand marshals. Last year’s junior grand marshal, Mollie Donaldson (in back), hung the sashes on the three.<\/p>\n

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Ms. Gonzalez’s junior grand marshal recognition came with both flowers and a trophy.<\/p>\n

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After the awards ceremony, the dancing resumed.<\/p>\n

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Waiting for Sunday’s parade proved tiring for at least one youngster.<\/p>\n

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Mainstreet Moms, political activists who meet weekly at St. Columba’s Church in Inverness, carried placards urging people to vote.<\/p>\n

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Straus Dairy’s entry is always a hit because it gives out free cartons of ice cream. Dairyman Albert Straus is at left.<\/p>\n

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Petaluma dairy princess Amanda King and first alternate Camilla Taylor.<\/p>\n

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Bill Barrett leads the parade entry of the Coastal Marin Fund, which benefits local nonprofit organizations by selling artistic brass coins to use for local purchases and for tourists to take home.<\/p>\n

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West Marin Community Services, which runs the food bank and the thrift store in Point Reyes Station while also providing many other forms of assistance to low-income people.<\/p>\n

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Vern Abrams, who has been living in his car in Point Reyes Station, used a musical parade entry to remind parade goers of the needs of West Marin’s homeless residents.<\/p>\n

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The Inverness Garden Club, which maintains several public flowerbeds in Inverness and Point Reyes Station, handed out flowers as it proceeded down the street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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