“Wherever you go, no matter the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
~Anthony J. D'Angelo
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Spokane Woman's Club
Vintage Fashion Show & Tea
LAST CHANCE FOR TICKETS!
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We are honored to be a part of the Spokane Woman's Club Vintage Fashion Show & Tea. Our 19 Royalty Candidates will be honored guests and this annual event is always a lot of fun to see them shine.
If you would like to go, click the link below. Tickets are close to selling out, so make sure you purchase your tickets as soon as possible!
If you have any questions or would like to purchase your tickets over the phone, please contact the phone number in the above flyer.
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AUDITIONS NOW OPEN FOR OUR
2nd Annual
"Lilac City's Got Talent" Show
Submission Deadline: Feb. 28th
Show:
Wednesday, March 27th
6:30pm
The Bing Theater
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Do you know any talented High School Seniors? Would they like the opportunity to perform in one of Spokane's premier stages? Could they use some extra money to go towards their continued success? If you do, then let them know auditions are now open for our 2nd Annual "Lilac City's Got Talent" Show!
We are teaming up with BECU and Lewis & Clark High School's Leadership class to find the most talented High School Senior(s) in the Lilac City. We were blown away with the amount of talent we saw last year, we can not wait to see what the class of 2019 has in store.
Click below for more information and to sign up! Audition submission deadline is February 28th. The show is on Wednesday, March 27th at The Bing Theater. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, February 1st, and can be purchased through Tickets West.
Adults $15 | Military & Students $10
A BIG thank you to BECU, for continuing to support not only the Spokane Lilac Festival but helping us "Empower Our Youth."
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2018 Directors, Volunteers and Royalty at Autumn Leaf Festival in Leavenworth
Photo Courtesy of Kristy Hamby
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Our amazing VP of Area Relations, Shelley Sholl, is busy planning our 2019 Festival season and area Festival information is starting to come in. Below are the parades that are on our calendar so far. We will be adding the full list soon. If you are a Director or Volunteer interested in participating in any of these parades, please contact Shelley as soon as possible. It's amazing that we are well on our way in 2019, it's going to be a fun year!
Saturday, March 16th, Noon
Spokane's St. Patrick's Day Parade
Downtown Spokane
Hosted by The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
Saturday, May 4th, 11am
WA State Apple Blossom Festival
Wenatchee, WA
Saturday, May 11th, 10am
Spokane Junior Lilac Parade
Downtown Spokane
Hosted by Spokane Rotaract Club
Saturday, May 18th, 7:45pm
Spokane Lilac Festival Armed Forces Torchlight Parade
Downtown Spokane
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2019 Royalty Candidates with Project Beauty Share Leaders & Volunteers
Photo Courtesy of Hawkinson Photography
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We can not believe we are in our final weeks with our 19 Candidates, and boy have they been busy! This last weekend, the Candidates volunteered with Project Beauty Share. This organization collects personal hygiene, cosmetic, and beauty products and distributes them through non-profit organizations who serve women and families overcoming hardships. Our Royalty Candidates cleaned and sorted donated items to be packaged in individual boxes. This is a great organization to team up with because it is truly empowering those in our community. For more information on Project Beauty Share,
click here
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Our Candidate training sessions have also been aplenty this last week. Our young ladies received interview & resume training from Sheila Jewell of Kiemle & Hagood, impromptu question answering skills from their Purple Pod leaders and Military Protocol from our VP of Community & Military, Col. (retired) Alan Hart. They were also able to meet with some of our Directors and Volunteers to practice their impromptu questions, participate in team building exercises and get to know Lilac Festival members one on one.
We are so impressed with all of our 19 Candidates and no matter what happens, we know they will take all the skills and lessons learned from the valuable training and community outreach experiences onto their next adventure.
Keep reading this week's Lilac Weekly as we introduce five more of our "We Are Spokane" Candidates.
And don't forget to mark your calendars for
Sunday, March 3rd at 3pm for the 2019 Royalty Coronation
at West Valley High School! Tickets now on sale.
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Top Left:
2019 Royalty Candidate, Madison (Cheney), cleans donated makeup before placing it in the Project Beauty Share kit.
Top Right:
A Project Beauty Share volunteer gives our Candidates instructions before they start.
Middle Left:
Sheila Jewell calls on Candidates to answer the questions in a game of Resume/Interview Jeopardy.
Middle Right:
2019 VP of Community & Military, Alan Hart, gives important information regarding Military interaction and protocol.
Bottom
: Royalty Candidates with Col. Hart
Photo Courtesy of Hawkinson Photography & Cecelia Stephens
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2019 Royal Tea Party
Tickets On Sale & Donations Needed
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Members of the CYT-Christian Youth Theater perform for our 2018 Royal Tea Party guests.
Photo Courtesy of Hawkinson Photography
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Sunday, April 28th
Historic Davenport Hotel
10am & 2pm
Tickets for our 2019 Royal Tea Parties are on sale now! This is a very special Lilac Festival tradition. It is always so wonderful to see the little princesses of our region enjoying sipping tea, learning how to do their best princess wave and walking the purple carpet each year! We have two tea times, 10am & 2pm, click below for more information and to purchase tickets.
Donations Needed:
- We are still looking for Door Prize donations. If you have any questions on what you can donate, please contact our office.
- We are in need of a venue to feed our volunteers in between our tea parties from 11 am to 2 PM. We are looking for a business that has a conference room within a 2 block walking distance of the Historic Davenport hotel. This would be an In-Kind donation that would come with Spokane Lilac Festival sponsor benefits. If you are interested, please contact our office.
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CALLING ALL ARTISTS!
Now Accepting Entries for the
2019 Lilac Festival Juried Art Show & Competition
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2019 Lilac Legacy Art
"Lilac Profusion"
Lindsey Hope Johnstone
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Become our 2020 Lilac Legacy Artist! For Prospectus and Entry form, click the link below.
All entries are due by Friday, April 19, 2019 and the show will be on Monday, May 13th of Festival week.
More details on the event coming soon.
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Royalty Candidate Spotlight
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Over the next few weeks, we will be introducing you to our 19 "We Are Spokane" Royalty Candidates. Once our seven Court members are selected we will get to know them a little better as well.
Missed an Issue? Click below for our past Lilac Weekly's featuring our Candidates:
All of our Royalty Candidates are amazing young leaders and we hope you enjoy getting to know them just as much as we are.
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Myranda Wilsey
Mt. Spokane High School
Myranda is the only girl among her three siblings. Her family doesn't have a pet at the moment but she absolutely loves dogs! She is a talented singer who performs with the Children's Youth Theater. She also plays on her school's tennis team.
After graduation, she will be attending Montana State University to pursue her Masters in Architecture. Myranda hopes to one day become a licensed Architect and open her own firm.
In her spare time, Myranda enjoys singing, reading, watching movies and has been learning to play piano and guitar. She is also a fan of Target and local coffee shops.
Myranda enjoys Spokane's 'big city with a small town feel.' She loves how our community comes together to celebrate our various events, like the Lilac Festival!
We are very excited to get to know Myranda even more and are grateful she has chosen to join the Lilac Family.
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Makayla Juntunen
North Central High School
Makayla, or "Kader" to her friends and family, is the oldest sibling to her sister and brother. The Juntunens have a golden retriever, Koda. and seven fish (names unknown)!
She is a great softball player and has been on North Central's Varsity team for 5 seasons. She truly loves to be outdoors in any type of weather. She likes biking, swimming and skiing. Makayla also enjoys her downtime painting water colors, playing her ukulele and watching movies with her family.
After graduation, Makayla hopes to attend college studying History with an emphasis in Education. Her dream job would be to become a High School teacher so she can inspire and impact students as much as her teachers have for her.
Makayla's favorite part about Spokane is the "big little city" feel it has. She loves that 15 minutes south from her home she is in downtown Spokane and 15 minutes north she is at Riverside State park. She enjoys hanging out at Wake Up Call coffee shops and you can find her at her favorite store, Target, often.
Makayla is a wonderful addition to our Lilac family and we can not wait to see what she will accomplish. Welcome Kader!
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Grace O' Neil
Northwest Christian High School
Grace is the middle child to her two sisters. She has lived in Spokane for almost her entire life and is part of the 4th generation of her family still living alive and well in the Lilac City.
Grace is a cheerleader at her school, volunteers with her church's camps and Vacation Bible School. She loves to volunteer in her community. In her down time, she likes to schedule coffee dates with her friends so she can take the time to catch up. She also loves to draw and paint.
After graduating, she plans to attend Central Washington University to study Education and become an elementary teacher. Grace has a big bucket list that includes traveling to Italy, going scuba diving, and live in Mexico. She has traveled (via car) to Mexico for mission trips four times!
Grace, along with a lot of our Candidates, is a big fan of Target. She enjoys sipping peppermint tea, especially at the local coffee shop, Highway Grind. She also loves the "home" feel Spokane offers and the city yet country feel.
Welcome Grace to the Lilac Festival, we are incredibly proud to have you!
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Elizabeth Welker
On Track Academy
Elizabeth is the youngest member of her family. She has an older sister, Carol. They too have a busy household with four dogs!
She is very involved in her school and community. She is part of her school's advanced leadership program, is on the Superintendent's Advisory Group and the district's safety task force. She was also a member of AFJROTC for two years and competed on the Drill Team.
Elizabeth loves to sing and play guitar. She also finds cooking and baking as a type of therapy. She spends her down time playing with her dogs and reading. Currently she is enjoying the "Shatter Me" series.
Her favorite thing about Spokane is how it is evolving in such a positive way. She feels the renovation of Riverfront Park and Kendall Yards has brought a new and fresh sense of life to the city.
Elizabeth is our very first candidate from On Track Academy, which makes us very honored and excited to have her as part of the Lilac family!
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Hailey Sims
Riverpoint Academy
Hailey has an older brother and two dogs named Sadie and Scout. She is a member of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and the Spokane Area Youth Choir, where she is a mentor and loves all the younger participants she works with.
After graduation, Hailey plans to attend Washington State University to study hearing and speech science and become a Speech Pathologist. Her dream job is to help others in any way possible.
In her downtime, she loves hanging out with her friends and playing piano as much as she can. She is also a big fan of sleep (we are too). Hailey's bucket list item is to travel to as many places as possible, which she is well on her way as she has already traveled to six different countries!
Hailey loves the fact that Spokane is a mix of a big and little city. You can find her ordering her favorite Red Bull Italian Soda drink from Dutch Bros. as well as shopping at her favorite store, TJ Maxx.
We are enjoying getting to know Hailey more and can see the reason she is such a leader at her school.
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2019 Parade
Participant & Vendor Applications Now Open!
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2018 Armed Forces Torchlight Parade Participants - North Central High School Marching Band
Photos by Hawkinson Photography
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The Spokane Lilac Festival wishes our friends with birthdays in January & February
a Happy Birthday!
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January:
- Kathy Kendall 1/4
- Denny Kane 1/13
- Deborah Koch 1/15
- Nancy Cole 1/20
- Deborah Bowen 1/23
- Lisa Lembeck 1/25
- Joyce Tilloston 1/25
February:
- Laurine Logerwell 2/4
- Denny Nichols 2/5
- Bill Phipps 2/7
- Brooke Wayman 2/8
- Cindy Zapotocky 2/19
- Lisa Taylor 2/24
- D'Laine Fields 2/27
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February
- Saturday, February 2nd - Woman's Club Tea - 1pm (1428 West 9th Avenue)
- Saturday, February 2nd - Float Work Day, 10am-4pm, Float Barn
- Tuesday, February 5th - Royalty Committee Meeting, 5:30pm, Lilac Office
- Wednesday, February 6th - Royalty Liaison Meeting, Location TBD
- Thursday, February 7th - Parade Krewe Meeting, 5:30pm, Longhorn BBQ Airway Heights
- Saturday, February 9th - Float Work Day, 10am-4pm, Float Barn
- Saturday, February 9th - Royalty Candidate Interviews
- Monday, February 11th - Hosting Committee Meeting, RTP 5:30pm, Hosting 6pm, Lilac Office
- Monday, February 11th - Royalty Court/Parent Meeting, 6pm, Location TBD
- Tuesday, February 12th - Directors Meeting, 5:30pm, Round Table - South Hill Location (4510 S Regal St, Spokane, WA 99223)
- Saturday, February 16th - Float Work Day, 10am-4pm, Float Barn
- Tuesday, February 19th - Royalty Court/Directors Roundtable Session, Time & Location TBD
- Thursday, February 21st - Parade Krewe Meeting, 5:30pm, Longhorn BBQ Airway Heights
- Saturday, February 23rd - Float Work Day, 10am-4pm, Float Barn
- Tuesday, February 26th - Executive Committee Meeting, 6pm, Lilac Office
- Thursday, February 28th - Royalty Family & Friends Night, 7pm, West Valley High School
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Spokane Lilac Festival
3021 S. Regal, Suite 105
Spokane, WA 99223
509.535.4554
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