2010 Butter & Egg Days Parade & Festival will be taking place on April 24th from 10 am to 5pm. A kids pre parade steps off at 11:30 and the main parade steps off at noon.
We are proud to annouce this year's theme: "Petaluma's Shining Moments". Applications are now available in the links above! Check out a Video of last year's parade:
Time To Honor Someone Who Teaches Us Our History: “Good Egg” Award Nominations Due February 19
Petaluma - Do you know a person who helps us all remember Petaluma’s heritage and how proud we should be of Petaluma and Petalumans’ contributions to our lives? The Butter & Egg Days Parade is looking for a Good Egg who has done just that. This award was started 28 years ago to honor the people who work to keep Petaluma’s history alive for all of us. The Good Egg is introduced at Butter & Egg Days Opening Ceremonies which will be held this year on Saturday, April 17, at Noon at the Petaluma Historical Museum. The Good Egg will also ride in the Butter & Egg Days Parade, on Saturday, April 24th. The Good Egg Award is presented annually to a Petaluma citizen whose ‘egg-ceptional’ effort over time has helped preserve, promote and contribute to the positive promotion of the city of Petaluma, its history and its people. The Good Egg Award is an honor created by The Butter and Egg Days Committee to recognize a legacy of positive promotion begun by booster Bert Kerrigan. Kerrigan worked from 1918 to 1926 to establish international recognition of Petaluma as a center of commerce and agriculture. Mr. Kerrigan’s promotion of Petaluma included the famous National Egg Days celebrations, which inspired the creation of the Butter and Egg Days event. Kerrigan brought Petaluma fame with the phrase “The World’s Egg Basket.” To nominate a “Good Egg”, send a nomination form or letter to: The Good Egg Award Committee, c/o Petaluma Downtown Association, 6 Petaluma Boulevard North, Suite B-6, Petaluma, CA, 94952. All applications must be received by Friday, February 19 at 5 p.m. You can also email the completed form or letter to jenny@petalumadowntown.com or fax to 707-762-4317. Your letter should identify how your prospective Good Egg has helped to preserve Petaluma history, helped others to remember and honor historic Petalumans or Petaluma achievements, or helped to promote Petaluma history within the community or beyond. You can dowload the form below or to have a nomination form mailed to you, call the Butter & Egg Days Parade office at 763-0344. You can also pick up Good Egg Nomination Forms at the Petaluma Downtown Association Office.
PAST GOOD EGGS: 1983 Adair Heig (now Lara), Author of “A History of Petaluma, A River Town” 1984 Bill Soberanes, Argus Courier columnist, Founder of World Championship Wrist Wrestling 1985 Skip Sommer, Historic Great Petaluma Mill Developer 1986 Ron Walters, KTOB radio personality, performer 1987 Debi Riddle, preservationist, Heritage Homes President 1988 Linda Buffo, longtime Butter and Egg Days Steering Committee Chair 1989 Bill Rhodes, River Festival Founder 1990 Bob McLaughlin, longtime Petaluma River advocate 1991 Ed Fratini, local historian and archivist 1992 Ed Mannion, Argus Courier columnist, Petaluma historian & collector (awarded posthumously) 1993 Terri Hohener, founder Miss Petaluma Ambassador Program 1994 Marcie Becker, volunteer, Petaluma tourism activist and promoter 1995 Pennylee Christensen and Karen Nau, River Festival and Adobe Fiesta Organizers 1996 Mike Gerke, downtown businessman, community volunteer 1997 Ross Parkerson, preservationist, noted artist of historic locations 1998 Alice Forsyth, long time event coordinator and co-founder Butter and Egg Days 1999 Mayor M. Patricia Hilligoss, advocate for history of Petaluma, Mayor 1987-1998, Citizen of the year 1978 2000 Kathleen Schmelz, promoter of local history, tireless volunteer, museum docent 2001 Izzie Barlas, poultry industry leader, WWII Veteran, Community Ambassador 2002 Fred Schram, President of Heritage Homes of Petaluma and docent for Petaluma Adobe 2003 Susan Warren Villa, Petaluma Museum Association president, and Petaluma advocate 2004 Katie Watts, Argus-Courier columnist 2005 Bill Hammerman, Petalumans of Yesteryear 2006 Lucy Kortum, local advocate and historian 2007 Katherine Rinehart, local historian and author 2008 Don Bennett, Petaluma promoter, author, and activitist 2009 Kathy Fries, coordinator of the Petaluma Historical Library & Musuem
