Thank You Everyone Who Made Topanga Days A Success!

The Topanga Community Center Board members want to take a moment and send our sincerest THANK YOU to everyone who came out and celebrated Topanga Days and helped to make our fundraiser successful! I’m sure it doesn’t come as a surprise, but this festival is an intense undertaking which the all-volunteer TCC Board takes upon their shoulders.

So a huge shout out goes to the Board: Nonie Shore, who produces this beast. Kelly Rockwell, Franka Diehnelt, Andy Monn, and Rick Provisor: Thank you for giving up so much of your time to make this event memorable. Also, a mammoth Thank You to Christine McGrath, who handled all web related aspects of the event!

Thank you to our coordinators who donated so much of their time! Caitlin Carleton (Operations); Jerry and Henry Simer (TCC Caretakers); Tom Mitchell (Corral Stage); Randy Renner (Main Stage Stage Manager); Tali Whalley (Volunteer Sign in), Sarah Livingston (Volunteer online), Jacques Bleu & Mary Dippel (Wine Bar); Dayna Miller (Food Vendors/ ETC...); Curtis Hein (Merchant Vendors); Randy Just (Maintenance & Signs); Lindsay Zook (Parade); Shannon Thomas (TCC booth/T-shirts); Loren Greenshields, Mike Buckley & Crew (Parking); Brody & Catalina (games); Adam Noble Roberts (MC); Dave Thompson & Sean (Bar); Sierra Friday (Ticket Booth); Angie Winslow (Graphic Design), Damon Ferrara (PR/ Backstage Helper), Stephen Gandee (Backstage Hospitality); Chris Wilson (Backstage Helper); Kelly Constantine (Sign Painting/ ETC…); Sidney Brody (Poster hanging); Zianna Weston (Social Media); Guada and her cleaning crew (Cleaning & Trash).

And… thank you to everyone who stepped up to volunteer for this event in whatever capacity, as we could not do this without each and every one of you!

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…AND THE WINNERS ARE

• Diaper Derby: Andrew Griffes, Billy Simpson, Cap Breese

• Sack Races: 12: Kiley Cazun, 12: Ella Cohen 50: Micaela Chambers

• Sack Race 50+: Micayla Chambers

• Three-Legged Race: Kiley Anaïs; Wakako Takagi; Deb Rivera

• Three-Legged Race 50+: Morgan Runyon, Brendon Ohalloran

• Musical Chairs: Tara and Beatrix Rand

• Water Balloon Basketball: Kanan Lerner and Shane Lerner

• Egg Toss: Sean and Seth Kirkpatrick (2022 winners as well)

• Cherry Seed Spitting: Bradley Schmidt

• Best Beard: Fran McGivern

• Animal Impressions: Lukas Mackey

• Limbo: Michelle Wolzinger

• Dance: Leelah Balloon

• Pie Eating Contest: Brandon Gritters

By TECS News Team

Topanga’s next generation of stars shone brightly in a spectacular performance of Moana Jr. at Topanga Elementary Charter School (TECS).

Local theater arts organization FOCUSfish produced the dazzling musical, their 15th show at TECS, with many of the audience calling it the best elementary school production they had ever seen.

Kristy Beauvais, the show’s producer, director, and executive director of FOCUSfish, said, “Just three days prior to opening night, I thought I was done with directing these school musical. Quite frankly, it looked like a mess and I was panicked.