Button designer follows family tradition for festival

By Matthew Nash • May 2, 2018 1:30 am
Sara German won this year’s Sequim Irrigation Festival button design contest and the chance to ride in a limo with friends to lunch on May 1. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash
Sara German won this year’s Sequim Irrigation Festival button design contest and the chance to ride in a limo with friends to lunch on May 1. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

Following in the footsteps of her sister Jessica, Helen Haller Elementary fifth-grader Sara German, 11, won the Sequim Irrigation Festival’s button design contest, too. She’s been trying to win since second grade, and this year she won over 418 entries, said Shawnna Rigg, festival products chairman.

As tradition, Sara rode with friends in a limo provided by 7 Cedars Casino and ate chocolate chip pancakes at Oak Table Cafe courtesy of Liz Parks, owner/broker of RE/MAX Prime. Sara, who enjoys art, will later ride in the Grand Parade on May 12 for her accomplishment, and she received a free bracelet for the carnival.

Her sister Jessica, now a freshmen, won the contest in 2014. Students sold Sara’s button design as a fundraiser for the festival for a chance at prizes.

For more information on the Sequim Irrigation Festival May 4-13, visit www. irrigationfestival.com.

Button designer follows family tradition for festival