14 • July 20, 2011 • Snoqualmie Valley Record
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Dogs get Block Par t y their day in block party
Cathie Linden is expecting at least one Lady Gaga at this weekend’s festivities, and hoping for a Justin Bieber, too. “This year, I’ve asked people to get creative with their costumes,” she said, “so I asked a friend to bring her dog as Lady Gaga.” But dogs dressed up as pop stars are only part of the full day that Linden, owner of U Dirty Dog, is planning for dogs and their owners who come to the North Bend downtown Block Party. There will also be grooming demonstrations give-aways, and the much anticipated doggie olympics, with events like bobbing for hot dogs, and the loudest “speak.” Last year’s loudest will be back this year, too, she says. “It’s a basset hound. He just jumps up on his owner’s shoulder and howls. He’s so loud!” Linden got the idea for the olympics from a friend, who runs the games as part of an annual reunion of her foster
Ready, Set, Banana Boogie Kids of all ages are invited to come play with their food at the children’s area of the North Bend Block Party Saturday, where the Banana Boogie is back for its third year. The event is an exercise in creativity, and a lot of fun, says Boogie coordinator Cindy Walker. “It’s something that clearly doesn’t happen every day, making your own car with a banana.” From 2 p.m. to about 8 p.m., participants can pay their $2 admission, pick a banana, trick it out with toy wheels, stickers, feathers, pipe cleaners and their own original marker art, then race it down a 16-foot ramp. “Some of the kids are in there completely on their own, and some are with their parents, who are saying ‘put this here, move that,’” said Walker. There is a science to making the fastest banana car, but it doesn’t seem to have much to do with the curve. Walker has seen children build cars curve-up and curve-down. “Some of them work, some of them don’t.” Once the creations are ready to roll, children can run them down the ramp all day, if they want to, “or until they get tired of it,” says Walker. Her business, Emerald City Smoothie, has been sponsoring the Boogie every year of the block party. Walker said she got the idea from a similar concept she saw at Pike’s Place Market, the Zucchini 500. “We thought, gosh it would be really fun to do something like that!” Walker said. Deciding what to make the cars out of was easy. Bananas beat zucchini on price, fun, availability and marketability—just try to imagine a zucchini smoothie. Bananas, Walker said, were “a much better tie-in to our product!” Every Banana Boogie participant will receive a $1 coupon at Emerald City Smoothie, and their very own souvenir banana cars.
dogs. She and staff came up with the game ideas themselves, and “by far the most popular is the peanut-butter lick!” In this game, each dog is given a peanut-butter filled paper cup to clean out. “It’s all about fun,” Linden says, including the gold, silver and bronze pawprint medallions that go to the winners. “The dogs are usually the ones walking around wearing the medals.” The doggie olympics will take place in the grassy area across from the U Dirty Dog booth, from 2 to 4 p.m., and the costume contest will be on the Community Stage at 5 p.m. All of the events are free, but participating dogs must be friendly.
A doggie pizza party is going on all day Saturday at the Pet Place Market’s booth for the North Bend downtown Block Party. Shop owner Brenna Scholtz and staff will be baking up the pizzas in the shop and handing them out by the slice to every hungry dog that stops by. “It’s all human grade food, but it’s made specifically for dogs,” Scholtz said. The pizzas, from True Treats Bakery in Kirkland, are topped with cat- and boneshaped crackers, she added, so “it’s going to be funny.”
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Creative costumes win prizes for canines; bobbing nets hot dogs
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