Letters | Another successful Fall City Days, thanks to you

Published 12:40 pm Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The rain held off until 4:30 on June 16 for our 41st annual Fall City Street Fair. From start to finish, the event was a concerted effort of many hard working volunteers in our community.

I know how grateful I am to them and how much work goes into the event. Cheri and Susan helped check in vendors and troubleshoot for me in the early morning hours. The fun run was expertly led by Sean Sundwall and Kirk Dunckel (results on www.runsnoqualmie.com). Our road/detour crew did a great job with new recruits, thank you to Bud, Dave, Steve, Del, Kevin, Terry and Lee for pulling it off. Don Hastings and his deputies did a fine job keeping the crowds and cars in line throughout the day. Jennifer Vierling and Fall City Arts were able to again garner great performances from local artists for us.

A “Thank you” to Kim for setting up the chairs in the park in Vanessa’s absence. Jane, Laurie and company waited patiently for the winning ducks to cross the finish line, after selling tickets all day. The parade had many floats to ooh and aah over, congrats to Marci and Cedars Montessori for winning the Grand Marshal trophy.  Thanks to Libby and Laurie E. for your teamwork and our awesome parade. “Thank you” to Don Norman and family for being our outstanding Grand Marshal and judges this year.  Melody ran and staffed our merchandise, hats, shirts and mugs are still available at the Hauglies Insurance Agency—Fall City Days HQ.  Thank you to Bill A. and Dan E. for maintaining our electrical and technical systems throughout the day.

Enrique (El Caporal) and Lyle (Raging River Saloon) were kind enough to let the food vendors use their establishments for water and other amenities and fed our crew during the day.  The Boy Scouts of Troop 425 went above and beyond to clean up after thousands of people and some also jumped in to help our road crew; they did a great job as always.  Gordon Construction came through again with use of their dumpster and Rainier Recycling lets us keep our supply shed on their property for easy access.

As you can see, we could not accomplish any of this or donate money back to the youth organizations in the Valley, without the help and support of our community.

Judy Dix

Fall City Days