Button designer wins burgers from festival

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, March 2, 2022

A limousine ride may be out, but plenty of burgers are in for this year’s Sequim Irrigation Festival button designer winner.

Kendall Adolphe received a certificate and $100 to Shadowline Burgers and Brews for her design work highlighting the festival’s 127th year.

Liz Parks, president of RE/MAX Prime, presented Kendall, an 11-and-a-half-year-old fifth grader at Helen Haller Elementary, with the prizes. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Parks would take the winner and a group of friends to lunch in a limo ride courtesy of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe.

“It’s one of my favorite things to do,” Parks said. “I love the children. I’m disappointed we weren’t able to go on a limo ride for the third year. It’s always a lot of fun.”

For her design which features lavender, mountains, water and more, Kendall, also a Clallam County 4-H Junior Royalty, said she was inspired “by the things around her all her life in Sequim.”

Michelle and Emma Rhodes, co-directors of the festival’s button sales, said the buttons will be first available at the festival’s Kickoff Dinner on March 19 at 7 Cedars Casino, and soon thereafter at local businesses through mid-May and the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce through the summer.

Locations will be posted at facebook.com/SequimIrrigationFestival.

The Rhodes’ said there were more than 250 entries from children in first-fifth grades in Sequim School District boundaries.

“We are so thankful for the support given by the staff at Greywolf Elementary, Helen Haller Elementary, and Olympic Peninsula Academy,” the mother-daughter team said.

Students did not have to attend a Sequim School District school to enter, organizers said.

Students will not sell buttons for a chance at prizes because of COVID-19 precautions, the Rhodes’ said.

For more about the Sequim Irrigation Festival, visit irrigation festival.com.