SEQUIM — Organizers of the Sequim Irrigation Festival plan to host the Grand Finale Weekend in spectacular fashion for the event’s 130th year.
Set through Sunday are the historic walking tour from the Sequim Museum and Arts, Boys & Girls Clubs’ golf tournament, Classic Car Show, 1-mile/5K run series, Grand Parade and the final weekend of the “Oklahoma!” operetta.
Running adjacent to the festival as a separate nonprofit will be the Sequim Logging Show at the Blake Property, 200 S. Blake Ave., south of Carrie Blake Community Park.
In its 37th year, the Logging Show will run Friday and Saturday with a Loggers’ Ball, fireworks show and logging show.
Events include:
Grand Parade
At least 110 entries are set to stroll from Dunlap Avenue along Washington Street to right before Seventh Avenue. Thousands of residents and visitors line both sides of the street for the event that will start at noon on Saturday.
Set to appear are the festival’s royalty, distinguished pioneers, grand marshal Mike Dashiell, the former Sequim Gazette editor, school bands, community organizations and plenty of costumes and floats.
Classic Car Show
The Classic Car Show will return Saturday to 250 Center Park Way in Sequim off East Washington Street at Security Services Northwest.
Pre-registration is available at the festival’s website, irrigationfestival.com, and costs $15 in advance or $20 at the show.
Entry at the show will take place from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., and the show will start at 11 a.m. with judging from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. There will be dozens of awards for participants at 4 p.m.
The show also features food, entertainment and merchandise.
Run Series
The 1-mile and 5-kilometer run series moved to the festival’s second weekend so runners and walkers could go along the parade route on Washington Street prior to the parade.
Events will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, starting at the future home of the Shipley Center, 651 W. Washington St. The 5K will go to Shipley Center’s current location, 921 E. Hammond St., and back. A half-marathon will not be offered this year.
To sign up for a 1-mile or 5K race, visit irrigationfestival.com.
Operetta
Sequim High School will present “Oklahoma!” at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are available at the door or at sequimschools.org.
Walking Tour
The Heritage Walking Tour will start at 11 a.m. today at Sequim Museum and Arts, 544 N. Sequim Ave., and if there are enough people a second tour, it will start at 1 p.m. The event takes about 45 minutes and goes to downtown Sequim and back for a suggested $5 donation.
Golf tournament
The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula’s 35th annual golf tournament will take place Friday at Cedars at Dungeness, 1965 Woodcock Road.
The tournament will get underway at 1 p.m. with a shotgun start with a relaxed scramble format that allows participants of all levels to participate. Funds contribute to programs offered at the Boys & Girls Clubs in Port Angeles and Sequim.
Individuals and businesses can register as players or sponsors. For more information on how to register or to learn more about sponsorship opportunities, call 360-683-8095 or visit bgc-op.org.
Logging Show
At the Blake Property off North Blake Avenue and East Washington Street, the Sequim Logging Show will feature events Friday and Saturday.
On Friday, tractor and truck pulls will go from noon to 6 p.m. and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The Loggers’ Ball is set for 7 p.m. Friday with fireworks at dusk.
On Saturday, the Logging Show will be from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and a live auction will be conducted from 3 p.m. until items are sold. See a more detailed schedule at sequimloggingshow.com.
History
The Irrigation Festival started in May 1, 1896, celebrating the first Dungeness River headgate being lifted a year prior. D.R. “Crazy” Callen, James R. Grant, H. Hucksford and Captain Thomas Jones conceptualized and built ditches to bring water from the Dungeness River to farmland.
The Sequim Irrigation Festival remains Washington’s longest running festival in the state.
For a full schedule, registration and more about the festival, visit irrigationfestival.com.
Parade lineup
The Sequim Irrigation Festival’s Grand Parade will begin at noon on Saturday. It will begin at Dunlap Avenue and end right before Seventh Avenue.
Here is the projected lineup:
1) Sequim Police Chief Mike Hill
2) Sequim Sunrise Rotary Club and Boy Scouts
3) Sequim Middle and High School Band
4) Sequim High Wolves Cheerleaders
5) Grand Marshal Mike Dashiell
6) 2025 Honored Pioneer Hazel Messenger Lowe
7) 2025 Honored Pioneer Tim Wheeler
8) 2025 Honored Pioneer Janet Duncan
9) 2025 Honored Pioneer Betty Kettel
10) 2025 Citizen of the Year Ron Stecker
11) Junior Royalty Princess Madelyn Davis and Princess Savannah Fuller
12) Junior Royalty Princess Briella Gleason and Princess Stella Good
13) 2024 Past Royalty Queen Ariya Goettling and Princess Kailah Blake
14) 2024 Past Royalty Princess Sophia Treece and Princess Ashlynn Northhaven
15) Kids Parade Winner Gabby Laboy
16) Button Designer Sonja Karabotsos
17) Sequim Mayor Brandon Janisse
18) Humanitarian Award George Brown
19) Sequim Dungeness Hospital Guild
20) Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT)
21) Clallam Ready People
22-26) Clallam County Fire District 3
27) Sequim Irrigation Festival Float
28) Sequim Irrigation Festival Truck and Trailer
29) Sound Community Bank, Grand Parade Sponsor
30) Sound Community Bank
31) Navy Band Northwest
32) Marine Corps League Detachment #897
33) USS BONEFISH SS-223
34) Veterans of Foreign Wars, VFW Post 4760
35) Nile Shriners
36) Sequim Log Show Honorary Logger Roger Addleman
37) Roger Addleman’s 1926 Model T
38) Sequim Log Show
39) Hoquiam High Marching Band
40) 2025 Miss Poulsbo, Miss Kitsap, Miss Silverdale
41) Olympic Peninsula Boys & Girls Club
Youth of the Year Jazzman Murray
42) Olympic Peninsula Boys and Girls Club
43) Miss Liberty Adrienne Runya
44) Glass Odyssey Corvette Club
45) 2025 Clallam County Fair Royalty
46) Girl Scouts of Sequim
47) WAG
48) Sequim HS Robotics
49) Sequim Acrobatics
50) Chimacum High School Band
51) Sequim Picklers
52) Pet Emergency Group
53) Dream Vacations
54) Olympic Peninsula Humane Society
55) White Crane Martial Arts
56) Soroptimists of Sequim
57) Dungeness Valley Health and Wellness Clinic
58) Empowered Equestrians
59) Miniature Horse (Drama)
60) Interstate Champions
61) Back Country Horsemen of Washington Peninsula Chapter
62) Peninsula Junior Rodeo
63) Sequim High School FFA
64) Sequim High School Equestrians
65) Sequim Sunshine Festival
66) Mason County Forest Festival
67) KSQM
68) 4H Rascals
69) Rocket transport
70) Sequim Food Bank
71) Hoquiam Loggers Play Day
72) Sequim Wheelers
73) First Fed Bank
74) Border Line Dance Team
75) Ms Senior Universe America 2025
76) Sequim Bike Alliance
77) Dungeness Courte Memory Care
78) The Daffodil Festival
79) Lincoln Park BMX
80) Port Scandalous Roller Derby
81) Women on Wheels (WOW)
82) Rhododendron Festival
83) Peninsula Party Booth
84) North Olympic Library System
85) TBD
86) Straight Arrow Hauling, Sequim Little League
87) Sequim Elks Lodge
88) Jays Home solutions
89) Forks Timber Museum Calliope
90) Washburn Services
91) Clallam County PUD
92) Opus Junk removal
93) Sequim Pressure Washing
94) Hoquiam Middle School Marching Band & Color Guard
95) Olympic Peninsula YMCA
96) WA Department of Natural Resources’ Wildfire Division
97) Diamond Construction
98) Adams Roofing 2.0
99) NW Gutter Pros
100) Sequim Log Show
101-102) Bekkevar Logging & Trucking
103) Olympic Disposal
104) Interfor
105) Rogers Carpet Cleaning
106) Cornwell Tools
107-108) Ellis Trucking
109) Robust Rentals
110-111) Alaska Pacific Trucking
112) Oakes Logging
113-114) Hermann Brothers
115) Nicholas Worley Trucking
116) Pedro Nolasco
117) Sequim Valley Funeral Chapel
