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Festival time is right around the corner! This year the Sequim Irrigation Festival will celebrate 128 years!  We are looking for volunteers to drive our beautiful float and truck and trailer for the upcoming parade season (May through October). The float driver duties include: hauling the float to numerous parades across Washington State, setting up the…

All 1st through 5th grade students within the Sequim School District boundaries are eligible to enter the Button Design Contest for the 128th Sequim Irrigation Festival. Our theme is ‘128 – Out the Gate’. Attached is the information you need to participate in this contest, including the theme and its story, rules and the PRIZES!…

If you are third grader in the Sequim school district we want to know ‘why is water important to Sequim and you?’ The annual essay contest has started. Write an essay by January 18, 2023 so you can be considered for Junior Royalty of the 2023 Sequim Irrigation Festival. Information about this contest is as…

Every year the Sequim Irrigation Festival sets a theme for the upcoming year and we have a logo designed to graphically depict that theme and associated story. The float and the themes for many of the festival events are tied to that logo. Are you interested in helping create the design for future Sequim Irrigation…

They begin their lives in some remote and obscure places.  Tiny, fragile, and unique.  But over their lifetime they find their way with deliberate purpose, the exact destination unknown, but on the course of greatness!  Until one day their moment has come, and they find themselves seemingly shoulder to shoulder and crowded in the headgate…

WE NEED YOUR VOTE! You can now go to https://vote.peninsuladailynews.com/ to vote for the Sequim Irrigation Festival and your favorite local businesses in the Best of the Peninsula 2022 contest. Once you navigate your way through the groups to your category ballot, you can copy the website address and use that link to share with friends and customers.  …

The 2022 Grand Parade will be live streamed, so you can watch the parade from the comfort of your home, on your phone, laptop or other device. The parade starts at noon on Saturday, May 14th.

The Sequim Irrigation Festival Grand Parade is on Saturday, May 14th, and the lineup has been released. You can review this lineup to see where you will be in the parade or where you favorite float, group or band will be. 2022 Grand Parade Lineup The parade starts at noon at Dunlap and Washington Street…

The Sequim Gazette has published the annual Sequim Irrigation Festival section. This section tells you all about the happenings of the festival, which starts Friday, May 6th and continues through Saturday, May 14th. You will find information about the royalty, pioneers, grand marshal, button design winner, logo designer, and logging show honorary logger, as well…