Grand Finale weekend closes 127th Irrigation Festival
Published 1:30 am Wednesday, May 11, 2022
The second weekend of the Sequim Irrigation Festival brings back a full parade, logging show and more for its Grand Finale. See irrigationfestival.com and facebook.com/SequimIrrigationFestival for last-minute updates.
• Heritage Historic Walking Tour, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Thursday, May 12, gathering at the Sequim Civic Center Plaza, 152 W. Cedar St. Tour guides share information about the Sequim area. Suggested donation $5 to the Sequim Museum and Arts;
• Past Royalty Luncheon (invite only), Friday, May 13;
• The Sequim Pioneer Dinner, Friday, May 13, at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, is restricted to descendants of pioneer families that lived in the Sequim School District prior to 1950. Spouses may attend with their qualified pioneer descendant. Tickets are available Wednesdays-Fridays from noon-2:30 p.m. at the Sequim Museum and Arts, 544 N. Sequim Ave. Tickets are $20 by cash or check;
• Logging Show, noon-dusk, Friday, May 13; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, May 14; multiple events take place throughout the grounds at 200 N. Blake Ave.
Friday: all day, truck and tractor pull; 6 p.m. mini-bike barrel racing, and lawn mower demolition; 7 p.m. Logger’s Ball with Black Diamond Junction; about 9:30 p.m. fireworks;
Saturday: all day, truck and tractor pull; 2 p.m. logging show; 2:30 p.m. live auction of log truckloads.
Some activities include hand bucking, hot saws and power saws, chainsaw races, axe throwing, pole falling, beer garden and vendors, bounce houses, logging equipment displays and more. More info: loggingshow@irrigationfestival.com;
• Sequim High’s Operetta: ‘Emma: A Pop Musical’ continues at 2 p.m. Saturdays, May 14 and 21; 7 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, May 14, 20-21; at the Sequim High School Auditorium, 533 N. Sequim Ave.; Tickets are $15 adults, $10 students at the door with limited seating.
• Fun Run/Walk 1 mile/5K, 11 a.m. Saturday, Sequim Village Center, 651 W. Washington St.; Participants receive a medal, shirt and swag bag. The run goes along Washington Street to The Big Elk and Shipley Center and back. Find registration at the festival’s website, irrigationfestival.com.
• Grand Parade, noon, from Dunlap Avenue to 600 block of Washington Street. Royalty, pioneers, bands and floats return to Washington Street after two years of processions broadcast online due to COVID-19 protocols.
Essential workers are invited to walk in the Grand Parade as part of the Sequim Citizen of the Year honor bestowed on them in 2020 by meeting at KeyBank,120 N Dunlap Ave. or take a shuttle from the Sequim Village Center courtesy of Rocket Transportation between 9:30-11:30 a.m. Participants are asked to wear something associated with the company they work for. There’s no parking at the bank before the parade;
For more information about the festival, see irrigationfestival.com.
2022 Sequim Irrigation Festival Grand Parade line-up
1 Sequim Dungeness Hospital Guild: Leading “Essential Workers”
2 Eastern Clallam County CERT Teams
3 Sequim Sunrise Rotary Flag Program
4 Marine Corps League 897/ Toys for Tots/Marine Corps League 897
5 American Legion, Jack Grennan, Post 62
6 Nile Shriners International
7 Olympic Peninsula District Rainbow Girls
8 Sequim High School Band
9 Sequim Middle School Band
10 Grand Marshals Stephen and Kim Rosales
11 Grand Pioneer Bonnie Hagberg
12 Grand Pioneer Donald Stone
13 Honorary Pioneer Shirley Lehman
14 Honorary Pioneer Roger Petroff
15 Citizen of the Year Jean Wyatt
16 Jr. Royalty, Greywolf Elementary Princess Adeline Slezak and Princess Bianca Lopez
17 Jr. Royalty, Helen Haller Princess Isabel Lawson
18 Past Royalty Queen Hannah Hampton and Princess Allie Gale
19 Past Royalty Princess Zoee Kuperus and Princess Sydney VanProyen
20 Button Designer – Kendall Adolphe
21 Kids Parade Winner Logan Larson
22 Kids Parade Winner Roman Bacchus
22a Boys and Girls Club Youth of the Year
23 City of Sequim mayor Tom Ferrell
24 Representative Derek Kilmer
25 Classy Ladies in a Classy Car
26 Sequim Irrigation Festival Float
27 Sequim Irrigation Festival Truck/Trailer
28 Sound Community Bank
29 Clallam County Fair Royalty
30 Sequim Little League
31 Farmall Tractors From Years Past
32 Storm King FC Soccer
33 WAG Welfare for Animals Guild
34 Sequim Wheelers
35 Sequim Valley Lions Club
36 Bower’s Blue Mountain Belgians
37 Olympic Theatre Arts
38 Sequim High School FFA
39 Mary Jane Apple/Driver 4 Rick Leenstra
40 Rick Leenstra
41 Bekkevar Logging 65’ 2006 T-800 Kenworth
42 Honorary Logger – Del Gott 20 ft 1913 Bulldog Mac Truck
43 Honoring Del Gott / Honorary Logger 3’ 1968 Kenworth Log Truck
44 Sequim High Operetta
45 Clallam County Junior Livestock Auction
46 Sequim Prairie Grange #1108
47 Rob Butcher
48 1947 Cadillac “60 Special”
50 Tenino High School Sound train
51 Hoquiam Loggers Playday
52 Sequim Farmers and Artisans Market
53 Lincoln Park BMX
54 First Federal
55 Dungeness Valley Health and Wellness Clinic Sequim Free Clinic
56 Mason County Forest Festival
57 Marysville Strawberry Festival
58 Sequim Robotics
59 Dream All American
60 Allen Brothers Trucking
61 Capital Lake Fair
62 Miss Kitsap 2022
63 Miss Poulsbo 2022
64 Miss Silverdale 2022
65 White Crane Martial Arts
66 Sequim Acrobatics
67 RODUTV Trail Riders and Tours
68 Hermann Brothers
69 Clallam PUD
70 Max Aria Trucking
71 Riding the Waves – Fathoms of Fun
72 KWA In Home Care
73 Walmart
74 Olympic Disposal
75 Copy Cat Graphics and Signs
76 Borderline Dance Team
77-83 Glass Odyssey Corvette Club
84 Sequim Adventist Church – “All Aboard to Forever Heaven Float”
85 Sequim Masonic Lodge
86 Strait Pumping
87 Eric’s Towing
88 Dungeness Court Memory Care
89 Bills Plumbing and Sanikan Inc.
90 Sequim’s Rockin’ Realtor
91 Little Car Corner
92 Bekkevar/ 65’ 2014 Peterbuilt
93 Bekkevar 16’ Hot Rod Log Truck
