Sequim: Children’s activities help launch 2004 Irrigation Festival this weekend

SEQUIM — Feel like strutting your stuff in a clever costume and parading around the track at Sequim High School?

Give it your best shot Saturday morning at one of the Sequim Irrigation Festival’s most popular events.

One catch: You have to be younger than 18.

But it’s worth it, says Mona Gates — a mom whose children are regulars in the festival’s annual Kids Parade.

“That parade is a priority in our household,” Gates told members of the Sequim-Dungeness Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon this week.

Photo opportunities abound at the Kids Parade, and organizers of the 109th Irrigation Festival — the state’s longest consecutively running community event of its kind — promise another fabulous show.

Kids donning costumes honoring this year’s butterfly theme may come to the high school football field at 10 a.m. Saturday to line up for a spot in the parade.

Judging begins at 10:30, and the parade itself starts at 11.

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