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  • Festivals Association float travels to parades

    Brooke Pichette, Distinguished Young Woman finalist|Updated Aug 9, 2012

    Well with three weeks off it was back on the road to parades. On July 14, we ventured to Chewelah for their parade. Brandn drove the float up there and we got everything unloaded and ready to go.  The weather started off like it was going to storm but within an hour it was nice and hot. The parade was nice and afterwards they had food in the park along with an awards banquet.  The adventure for this parade was the Esser family pickup was acting up so they headed home, as Aaron was getting... Full story

  • Float captures first award at Lilac parade

    Brooke Pichette, Distinguished Young Women finalist|Updated May 24, 2012

    The 2012 “Girls ‘n Pearls” float made their first parade this past Saturday in Spokane for the Lilac Parade. It was a long day filled with lots of laughter, fun, waiting patiently and meeting new people. The day started with John and Jan Marshall, and Aaron Esser hauling the float up to Spokane at 5 a.m. and then after hearing the other floats sound systems they decided ours wasn’t good enough so they called “Car Toys” and had a new sound system/speakers installed on the floa...