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Purchase a Perfect Mother's Day Gift!
May 4, 2008
Give Mom an experience of a lifetime, with reserved seat tickets for the
KeyBank Grand Floral Parade on Saturday, June 7! Guarantee a prime seating location and save BIG on tickets for reserved indoor or outdoor seats with our special Mother's Day discount offer.
Through May 16 you can save 20% off reserved tickets with our specail promo code.
CLICK HERE and enter the code word MOM to save on tickets today!
Please visit our Merchandise page for more great Mother's Day gift ideas, which includes items such as a box of our Commemorative See's Candies chocolate truffles, or our Commenorative Centennial Cookbook! CLICK HERE for more info!
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Dress Rehearsal for Parade Day!
May 2, 2008
Watch "Out & About" with Drew Carney on Tuesday morning, May 6, and see a 'dress rehearsal' for the biggest event day in the Northwest!
The Rose Festival Court, the Character Clown Corps, members of the Battle Ground High School marching band and a host of festival dignitaries and special guests will prepare for the big events inside Portland's historic Memorial Coliseum.
Rose Festival President Mark McGirr will join employees of Regence BlueCross BlueShield to limber up for the new Regence Grand Floral Walk, while the Rose Festival Court practices their waves for the KeyBank Grand Floral parade. Watch to see if Drew can learn the basics of playing in a parade band! Catch all the action from 5:00 - 7:00 a.m. on KGW NewsChannel 8.
Message from the President
Mark McGirr
The Rose Festival just celebrated a milestone anniversary, and it was one for the record books! We made this community a promise that we'd offer up the festival of a century, and we kept that promise. The International Festivals & Events Association agreed and named us Best Festival in the World for 2007.
Yes, most of the world knows we have a great festival. But do they know we also have the Best Community Outreach program in the world in our Rose Festival Court? Or the Best Educational Program in the World for our Student Film Project? Or the Best Children's Programming in the World at the WaMu Waterfront Village?
How about the fact that for ten years now we've had the Best Environmental Program in the world of festivals and events?
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