Aptos Fourth of July Parade 2022

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Aptos Chamber President’s Letter

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2022 Grand Marshals: 2002 Little League Champions Biographies

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Local Businesses Map

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They Put Aptos on the Map 16 & 18 ...

World’s Shortest Parade

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TABLE OF 24 ...

Chamber Parade Sponsors/ CONTENTS Commemorative T-shirt A Look at Past Parades

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Aptos 4th of July

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Party in the Park 30 ...

Parade Participation Info.

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Letter from the

Aptos Chamber President

Dear Aptos Community – Happy Fourth of July! This year celebrates the 61st Anniversary of the infamous Aptos World’s Shortest Parade.

To celebrate this Independence Day we are honoring the Champion Aptos Little League All Stars Team making them the Grand Marshals of the parade. 20 years ago this Aptos team was one of 16 teams competing Worldwide. It was through their determination, oneness and optimism which solidified them and drove them to success in winning the Little League Championship. Lessons still relevant to this day in our personal and professional lives as well as sports.

Following the parade is the Party in the Park from 12pm to 4pm featuring the Lost Boys band and James Durbin.

There will be fabulous vendors, scrumptious food and a fun event for the entire family. I hope to see you there!

I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge all of the Healthcare professionals who have kept us healthy as well as our public service Sheriffs, Fire Department, Highway Patrol and State Parks for keeping everyone safe for the holidays.

My wife Robin along with our 2 boys moved to Aptos 7 years ago and this is by far our most favorite place to live, to thrive, it’s what we call paradise.

It is heartfelt with much gratitude to be part of and contribute to this community that we all call home. It’s all about the people, local business, and our organizations which support this vibrant community.

Sincerely, Rick Bar President, Aptos Chamber of Commerce Central Coast Area Director, Kaiser Permanente

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It was 20 years ago that Aptos Little Leaguers made history by becoming the first team from Santa Cruz County to reach the heights of youth baseball, endearing themselves forever to baseball fans throughout Northern California.

Andrew Biancardi Andrew went on to play baseball at Aptos High School before playing another 4 years at Santa Clara University.

He sells Cyber Security to the State of California, and lives in Folsom, CA with his wife, Kristen and their 2 kids, Michael, 3 and Charley, 1.5. He and Kyle have remained very close friends, messaging each other daily. He’s become an avid golfer and plays regularly.

Brian Godoy Brian attended Aptos High school where he played baseball, basketball, and football. He went on to study culinary arts at Cabrillo College. He worked for a decade in local restaurants, moved to corporate catering in the Bay Area and private catering in Monterey.

He started as a cook and moved his way up to his dream position as Chef de Cuisine at 1440 Multiversity.

He met and married his high school sweetheart, Mikayla Glaum, and together they now have 3 children - Maysie, Rhowan, and Daphni. Since 2020 he has been a stay at home father and is loving every minute of it. Life has been full of opportunities and new adventures and he is grateful for it all. Go Giants!

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Curtis Worden Curtis played quarterback on the Aptos High football team and was an outfielder on the baseball team. He went on to attend UC Santa Barbara, where he played on the college Ultimate Frisbee Team.

After college, Curtis taught English abroad for 4 years in Spain, living in Madrid, Cádiz, Canary Islands, and the Basque Country. His summers in Spain consisted of working at hostels, traveling and playing music (guitar, singing, harmonica). Curtis currently resides in Santa Barbara with a career in tech sales, playing music and ultimate frisbee in his free time.

Drew McCauley Drew went on to Aptos High, where he competed on the golf team. He then went on to San Diego State, graduating with a degree in Finance.

He works for Vulcan Materials in Sales. He’s happily married to Heather, living in Pasadena, CA. He enjoys golfing, traveling and rooting for the Bay Area sports teams.

Jarred Bachan Jarred attended Aptos High and completed on the golf team. He graduated from Loyola Marymount University and went in to commercial insurance sales.

Jarred resides in Soquel and loves golfing in his spare time.

Justin Burns Justin “JB” Burns went on to play baseball at Monte Vista in Watsonville, the College of San Mateo, where he was named to the Junior College All-America team, before transferring to play at UC San Diego.

He currently lives in New York City with his girlfriend, Taylor, and works at Barclays Investment Bank covering the biopharmaceutical industry.

His favorite place to spend time is and always will be back in Santa Cruz County, where most of his family still resides; including a niece and nephew, whom he loves to load up with sugar before sending back to his brother and sister-in-law.

Kevin Eichhorn Kevin went on to play baseball at Aptos High School with several of the Aptos Little League World series players. He then went on to play professionally with the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Detroit Tigers for 7 years.

Kevin and his wife Janelle reside in Aptos with their 2 year old daughter Emma. Kevin is currently the Director of Baseball Operations at Paradigm Sport in Santa Cruz, CA and enjoys spending time with family, playing music and surfing.

Kevin Farmer Kevin attended Aptos High where he continued his baseball career and started his love for football. Kevin played 1 season on the Washington State football team. He then decided to move out to Honolulu, HI to start up a Restaurant Delivery service with his brother David. After 8 years of owning Aloha 2 Go Restaurant Delivery, the Farmer brothers sold their company to one of the much larger, emerging services that we all use today.

Currently, Kevin runs Operations for Sales and Business Development for a Property Management Software company, AppFolio.

Kevin moved back home and lives in Soquel with his beautiful wife Taylor. They now have a beautiful baby girl named Logan with another one on the way. Kevin is still an avid baseball lover and is very much looking forward to coaching his kids for another run at a Little League World Series title in 2032.

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Kyle Anderson Kyle went on to play baseball at Aptos High School with Little League Teammates, Kevin Eichhorn, Brian Godoy, Curtis Worden and Andrew Biancardi (who he stays in contact with daily). Kyle then went on to play baseball at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, before playing 6 years professionally with the Toronto Blue Jays, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Winnipeg Goldeyes.

He met his amazing wife, Stephanie, in Winnipeg Manitoba.

They now live in Woodinville, Washington with their 1 year old son, Julian. Kyle is currently a Technical Recruiter in the Seattle area, and enjoys cooking, watching sports and playing golf in his free time.

Tyler Raymond Tyler went on to play baseball at Aptos High School. After graduating, he moved to Eugene to attend the University of Oregon where he studied Kinesiology.

After living in Eugene for 8 years, he decided to change things up and enrolled in the World Brewing Academy, which took him to Chicago and then on to Munich, Germany.

He returned from Germany to become a brewer at Discretion Brewing in Santa Cruz, where he worked for 3 years until moving back to Oregon. He is currently living in Bend with his wife Tori, their son TJ and their 2 dogs. He is working as a brewer at 10 Barrel Brewing and enjoys hiking, biking and golfing on his days off.

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They put Aptos on the Map

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This 4th of July, Aptos will celebrate our freedoms with T-shirts, a great parade and a party in Aptos Village Park. This year’s parade Grand Marshals are the 2002 Aptos Little League AllStars. This is a 20-year reunion of the group of 11 and 12 year old boys who won the Little League West Regional Championship becoming the first team from Santa Cruz County to go on to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

It was also the first team from California to make it to the Little League World Series since 1991.

Amazingly, The Center for New American Media in Brooklyn, New York picked the Aptos All Stars team to film as a documentary and they captured the adventure on video from day one, culminating in the movie, “SMALL BALL: A Little League Story,” an hour and a half film that was shown nationally on PBS. The Aptos All Stars were eliminated in their quest to win the Little League World Series but that does not diminish what they were able to achieve. As a result, the California State Legislature proclaimed Oct. 26, 2002, as Aptos Little League Day. They really put Aptos on the map.

The Aptos “World’s Shortest Parade” started in 1961 as a celebration. Aptos’ main industry had been apple and fruit processing but that had closed down and a cement batching plant was proposed in the center of the small village. A group of women called the Aptos Ladies Tuesday Evening Society fought against the required zoning change. Their efforts were successful. To celebrate their victory, a barbecue was held on Memorial Day, 1961, in the field next to the railroad track. The event was so popular that a parade and potluck were planned to follow on the fourth of July.

Everyone turned out in old fashioned clothes and the Monterey Bay Antique Car Club brought 18 vintage cars. The parade route was from the Driftwood Gas Station at Trout Gulch Road (where O’Neill is now located) to the Pop Inn restaurant, (now the Parish Publick House). The parade only lasted ten minutes and that is how the “World’s Shortest Parade” got its name.

The once tiny parade has grown into a huge event for Aptos.

The “World’s Shortest Parade” has gained national recognition as one of only seven Fourth of July parades recommended in 2013 as the “Best” by prestigious Condé Nast Traveler, and in 2017, our parade was listed as one of “America’s Most Unique July Fourth Celebrations” by Land’s End Journal.

The Aptos Chamber is asking the community to be the judges for this year’s parade. Send photos of your favorite floats, groups, pets, cars, and bands to chamberaptos@gmail.com.

This year’s T-shirt is a Golden Retriever named Milo wearing a Little League Baseball cap. They are available at the Aptos Chamber of Commerce, Aptos Feed, Deluxe Foods and Santa Cruz County Bank in Aptos.

What better way to celebrate Independence Day than to either watch the parade or be in it, and finally to have lunch and dance the afternoon away, with the band “James Durbin and The Lost Boys” in Aptos Village Park? You can celebrate freedom from cooking and doing the dishes, you will have a great day and also help to support the parade that gives Aptos a little slice of fame and a big slice of “home town” feeling.

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Parade Founder: Lucile Aldrich (on right) The Fourth of July is America’s birthday and many communities have parades to celebrate that fact. The freedom to determine our own future was at the center of the founding of our country. The “World’s Shortest Parade” in Aptos is also about self-determination but it was not originally about America’s birthday.

The Granite Rock Company, founded in 1900, has been an important part of the history of Santa Cruz County. The great construction boom in houses and highways in the late 1950s and ‘60s meant that Granite had to build new cement batching plants to supply the need for concrete throughout the region.

Cement, sand, and aggregate are stored at the batching plant and mixed to order, then sent out in giant “cement mixer” trucks to the construction sites.

In 1959, the last remnants of the apple industry in Aptos Village closed down. Aptos was an industrial town with no industry. Granite Rock Company purchased land in the Village and applied to the county for a zoning change to build a batching plant. That is why the street across from the Post Office is named Granite Way. There is nothing wrong with a concrete plant but no one in Aptos Village wanted it in their back yard. Locals rose up against the proposal. Concerned women formed the “Aptos Ladies Tuesday Evening Society” and organized themselves to defeat the zoning change. The group included Lucille Aldrich, Anne Isaacs, Babe Toney, Peggy Marceron, Jessie Elliott, Birdie Jacobs, Beverly Palmer, Nola Gales, Pat Thompson, Joyce West, Peggy Hunter, Mrs. Harrison Smith, Dee Small, Betty Jo Jensen, and Nita Jellison.

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Their efforts were successful. To celebrate their victory, a barbecue was held on Memorial Day, 1961, in the field next to the railroad track. The event was so popular that a parade and pot luck were planned to follow on the fourth of July.

Everyone turned out in old fashioned clothes and the Monterey Bay Antique Car Club brought 18 vintage cars. The parade route was from the Driftwood Gas Station at Trout Gulch Road (where O’Neill Surf Shop is now located) to the Pop Inn restaurant, (formerly Little OWL Italian Kitchen and now the Parish Publick House). The parade only lasted ten minutes and that is how the “World’s Shortest Parade” got its name.

The second year, the “Sun Tan Special,” the train that once transported visitors from the San Francisco Peninsula to Santa Cruz, was in its final year of service. The Aptos Ladies had planted red, white and blue petunias along the railroad track from the Bay View Hotel to the Pop Inn. When the train reached Aptos on July 4th, the engineer stopped the train so that the passengers could get off and enjoy the festivities. “It was a happy coincidence that the parade coincided with the train passing through,” recalled Lucile Aldrich.

Games were also held in the field including sack races, a watermelon eating contest, horseshoes, kick the can, peanut runs, shoe kicking, and foot races.

The third year, the American Legion post was the first to set up a food booth with chili, coffee and pies. The following year, the Pop Inn offered hot dogs and soft drinks. Santa Cruz Dairy Farms wanted to sell ice cream so Lucile asked them to bring a cow for a milking contest. They brought two cows for five or six years but eventually the herd was moved away which ended the contest. In the mid-1970s the games and food booths were moved to Aptos Village Park which had just been completed.

The pancake breakfast was added in 1987, as a cooperative venture between the Aptos Chamber of Commerce and the Aptos Lions Club and is currently organized by the Chamber and the Search and Rescue Team.

In 1992, after thirty years of successful parade organization, the Aptos Ladies Tuesday Evening Society retired from the job and turned the parade over to the Aptos Chamber of Commerce. The once tiny parade has grown into a huge event for Aptos. The “World’s Shortest Parade” has gained national recognition as one of only seven Fourth of July parades recommended in 2013 as the “Best” by prestigious Condé Nast Traveler.

This year the community gets to be the judge. Send us photos of your favorite entry to chamberaptos@gmail.com. ★ 18

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The 4th of July The last couple of years have been a challenge, Aptos has adjusted and done their best. We’ve had to forgo the parade and activities are slowly we are bringing them back.

This year in 2022 the parade is back and so is the Party in the Park!

The “World’s Shortest Parade” in Aptos began in self-determination, it was not originally about America’s birthday.

In 1959, a zoning change was proposed to allow a concrete batching plant in Aptos Village. The community organized to defeat the zoning change and the first “World’s Shortest Parade” was held for the first time.

The parade route is one-half mile long, hence the name, “World’s Shortest Parade”. It begins at the intersection of State Park Drive and Soquel Drive and ends at the Trout Gulch and Soquel Drive intersection. It might be the world’s shortest parade distance wise, but our community loves it so much that it usually goes more than an hour and a half! People start setting their chairs out the night before so they can view it from their favorite spot. Some people also set up barbecues and make it a day! This year we are not going to have the pancake breakfast but the Party in the Park in going strong!

This year there is a commemorative T-shirt for sale.

Shirts are available at Deluxe Foods, Aptos Feed and Pet Supply, Santa Cruz County Bank, and The Aptos Chamber.

Join us on July Fourth for the “World’s Shortest Parade”, don’t forget your chairs! ★

We are Aptos strong!

Together, let’s celebrate our Fourth of July!

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Party in the park will be a community celebration again this year with James Durbin and the Lost Boys playing danceable music. We will have games for children, fabulous food, and craft vendors ... Capitola Aptos Rotary will host the Beer Booth and the community will come together for another great 4th of July celebration Please come down to the park once our parade ends and continue the celebration for the 4th of July.

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Please comply with the following rules for the safety of all: ★ DO NOT THROW OR HAND OUT ANYTHING ALONG PARADE ROUTE

This includes candy, fliers, balloons, etc., and is for the safety of all children who run out into the street. The child you save from injury may be your own.

★ DO NOT RETURN ALONG PARADE ROUTE UNTIL PARADE IS OVER

There are designated areas for floats and cars at the end of the parade route. Once your vehicles are parked, you are welcome to watch the parade or go down into Aptos Village Park for the parade winner’s announcement and the afternoon activities. Please disperse from the end of the parade route promptly to help keep congestion to a minimum.

★ NO FIREWORKS OF ANY KIND ★ NO MOTORCYCLES OF ANY KIND ★ NO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN PARADE OR IN THE FORMATION AREA ★ DO NOT SPRAY OR THROW WATER ALONG THE PARADE ROUTE ★ NO CARS ALLOWED ON SOQUEL DRIVE UNTIL THE HIGHWAY PATROL RE-OPENS THE ROAD TO TRAFFIC

Please be considerate of Parade Participants and Attendants!

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