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FREE 30 minute Infrared Biomat Sessions at Sky Hill Institute
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Cinnabar’s Dinosaurs of Improv - Come Laugh on Monday Night!
7:30 PM
  
FREE 30 minute Infrared Biomat Sessions at Sky Hill Institute
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  
FREE 30 minute Infrared Biomat Sessions at Sky Hill Institute
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  
FREE 30 minute Infrared Biomat Sessions at Sky Hill Institute
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
La Dolce Vita’s Cal Star Cellar Wine Tasting
7:00 PM
  
FREE 30 minute Infrared Biomat Sessions at Sky Hill Institute
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Viva Cocolat's Valentine's Day Chocolate Fondue
11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
  
Viva Cocolat's Valentine's Day Chocolate Fondue
11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
"Love, Life and the Rise of the Pulse"
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Petaluma Museum’s "150 Years of Black History" Speaker Anne Gray Bird
4:00 PM
Dimension Galleria features Javier Montiel
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  
La Dolce Vita’s Valentine’s Day Special
Viva Cocolat's Valentine's Day Chocolate Fondue
11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
  

Good Egg Nomination Form Kids Parade Application Parade Application Click here for an Exhibitor Application Arts & Crafts Click here for an Exhibitor Application Local Business Click here for an Exhibitor Application Local Non Profit Click here for a Food Vendor Application Click here for Parade Volunteer Form

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:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmS81AVLc8g

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

 

 



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