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Aptos World’s Shortest Parade 2012 Official Program

6 Schedule of Events

Table of Contents

8 Grand Marshals 10 Letter from the Aptos Chamber President 14 Parade Route & Map 16 Parade Participation 18 The World’s Shortest Parade Has Come a Long Way! 22 Lucille’s Dream is Now

World’s Shortest Parade

26 Award Categories 28 2011 Aptos 4th of July

Parade Winners

30 Fire Safety

Thank you to....

Deluxe Foods for selling 4th of July Parade T-Shirts, Pacific Coffee Roasting for donating coffee to the Pancake Breakfast, Britannia Arms for hosting the Pancake Breakfast, Cabrillo Host Lions for co-hosting the Pancake Breakfast, Capitola/Aptos Rotary Club for all they do for the fun at Aptos Park after the parade, Bob Norton for chairing the parade, & Rita Law for being a great organizer of the parade.

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World’s Shortest Parade!

From Wells Fargo to the Bayview Hotel. Hosted by the Capitola/Aptos Rotary and the Aptos Chamber.

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Party in the Park!

Music, Fine Arts & Crafts, Face Painting, Munchies, Games for Kids, Rock Climbing Wall and Plenty of fun including fabulous music by Extra Large from 11:00 to 4:00 p.m.!

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Grand Marshals

Adele Talmadge and Maura Noel

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aura worked on the Amgen Tour of CA in 2009 and 2010 as the Volunteer Director both years, hoping to recruit approximately 400 volunteers to be course marshals, work security, help the media folks, assist in catering etc. She had been organizing the local annual bike race called the Santa Cruz Mountains Challenge for the past two years and so had a local reputation of knowing how to put on (smaller) bike events. By attending the meetings that Tina Shull held on behalf of the city, Maura was able to get an overall idea of what it took to put on the event. She knew what parts of the race the hosting city would have to provide and what services and work the organizers would bring to the table. This meant leveraging and expanding her social network which was greatly enhanced by meeting Adele Talmadge when they both worked on the Seaside start for the Tour in 2011. Abe Lincoln was the overall organizer in Seaside last year and Adele and I volunteered mostly to extend the sphere of community to be beyond just Santa Cruz and Aptos.

It was thru Adele’s Aptos network that she approached Cabrillo College for their buy in and not only were they supportive but they offered to host the finish. Brian King immediately grasped the visibility for the college of hosting this international event and the staff of Cabrillo College were enthusiastic as well.

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Letter from the

Aptos Chamber President Brent Dunton

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elcome to the 2012 Aptos 4th of July celebration. The Aptos Chamber is happy to once again sponsor the Shortest Parade in the World!

This is a day when we all have the chance to slow down and focus on friends and family and to reflect on the year and its many successes.

The Aptos Chamber had unbelievable attendance at all of our events throughout the year, thank you so much John and Karen Hibble and your dedicated staff.

This year Aptos had the unique opportunity to host the finish line for the second stage of the AMGEN Tour of California bike race. Not only did our little town get international recognition, but it also galvanized our little community to rally and help pull off a very successful event.

Not many people know that the local organizing committee, led by Maura Noel and hosted by Adele Talmadge were the real champions who brought us the race and doggedly made sure that every detail was taken care of for race day. A special thank you goes to this year’s Grand Marshals: Maura Noel and Adele Talmadge -Brent Dunton

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Aptos Parade Celebrates 51 Years

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t Takes a Village... For the small town of Aptos to throw a parade every year attended by thousands, it truly takes a village. The Aptos 4th of July Parade is something the townspeople look forward to and celebrate every July 4. ... continued on page 24

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Please comply with the following rules for the safety of all 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 the Aptos Village Park for the parade winners 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 throw or hand out anything along parade route

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•Rita Law, Kendall & Potter Property Management •Judge William Kelsay, Retired •Ellen Pirie, 2nd District Supervisor •Patrice Edwards, Publisher Aptos Times •Mary Russell, Mortgage Broker

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n 1961, much to the horror of local citizens, a zoning change was proposed that would have allowed a cement batching plant to be built in the center of Aptos Village. Locals rose up against the proposal. Concerned women such as Lucille Aldrich, Anne Isaacs, Babe Toney and others formed the “Aptos Ladies Tuesday Evening Society” and organized themselves to defeat the zoning change. Their efforts were successful, and after their victory,

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 “Sun Tan Special,” the train that once passed through Aptos Village while transporting visitors from the San Francisco peninsula to Santa Cruz, stopped for the parade. “It was a happy coincidence that the parade coincided with the train passing through,” recalled Lucille Aldrich.

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Later that year, when the Southern Pacific Railroad tried to close the crossing in front of the Bayview Hotel, the Aptos Ladies’ Tuesday Evening Society again took action.

Inviting the press, they dressed in Victorian clothes and laid themselves down upon the railroad tracks.

Eventually, the court decided the Southern Pacific could not close off the right-of-way, and the Ladies were again victorious. This second victory provided the impetus for continuing the parade.

Originally, the parade route was from the Driftwood Gas Station at Trout Gulch Road to the Pop Inn restaurant (Britannia Arms) and back to the Bayview Hotel. It lasted less than ten minutes. Soon, food booths were set up to help raise money for Mar Vista School and ears of corn were sold.

Childrens’ games and contests were added including a cow milking contest. The pancake breakfast was added in 1987 and is a cooperative venture between the Aptos Chamber of Commerce and the Aptos Lions Club.

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t was 50 years ago when Lucille Aldrich and the Aptos Ladies Tuesday Evening Society celebrated the first Aptos Fourth of July Parade. The parade began as a community victory celebration that has expanded into a world-renowned icon. Even today the parade still reflects the small-town community values that were so important to its founder.

As Lucille explained it, the Aptos Fourth of July Parade actually began to celebrate the community’s victory over big business. It was 1961, the year the Berlin Wall went up, and there was a proposal to build a cement plant in Aptos.

Aldrich and her group of friends in the Tuesday Evening Society successfully lobbied against the project.

The membership of the Tuesday Evening Society celebrated the defeat of the cement plant by inviting everyone in Aptos to a Memorial Day barbecue in the fields near the in the center of the village close to the railroad tracks. Lucille enlisted the help of her friend Hank Shaw, a member of the Monterey Bay Antique Car Club. Hank showed up with 18 antique cars & drivers. The ladies of the Tuesday Evening Society dressed up in old-fashioned clothes and paraded alongside the antique cars with their children in tow.

As they were parading through the village, a train headed for the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz pulled into the Aptos Station. Many of the passengers decided to hop off and join in the fun. Before they knew it, an impromptu procession of happy folks was marching down Soquel Drive from the Driftwood gas station to the Pop Inn Restaurant (now the Britannia Arms). Little did they know that was the

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Lucille’s Dream continued from page 22... beginning of the World’s Shortest Parade.

Lucille and her friends decided to repeat the celebration by making it an annual Fourth of July parade.

The enthusiasm for the event grew by leaps and bounds. The crowd of parade watchers increased from a few families and visitors in 1961 to a few hundred in 1968 to an estimated 25,000 today including participants and spectators.

Early each Fourth of July, lawn chairs and blankets mysteriously appear out of the fog along the parade route and by parade time are filled by enthusiastic spectators. Times have changed since that first parade & Lucille Aldrich would be pleased of what that first victory parade has become.

Aptos Parade Celebrates 51 Years continued from page 13...

In order for this momentous occasion to happen every year, several organizations and people put their hands and minds together to create an event that everyone enjoys. The Pancake Breakfast is held every year at Britannia Arms. The restaurant and bar is open to the whole town to come and enjoy a feast to fill up on before the parade. The coffee from Pacific Roasting Company is a yearly treat. The Cabrillo Host Lions host the Pancake Breakfast as they have for years. For the parade, Rita Law of Kendall Potter is busy organizing the judge’s booth, buying balloons, and generally creating a festive atmosphere. The Aptos Chamber of Commerce’ presence is felt all around the parade, from directing traffic to organizing volunteers and participants. After the parade, the fun down at Aptos Park never ends thanks to the Capitola/Aptos Rotary Club. Oh, and if you want a Fourth of July T-Shirt… don’t forget to stop in at Deluxe Foods!

Yes, organizing the Aptos 4th of July Parade takes a village….

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he funky floats, the cars and trucks and trailers loaded with kids, musicians, flags and celebrants of all ages and all those who paraded and danced and entertained (some in rather weird and unique ways), the spectators who waved and applauded made this tradition a unique expression of the delight that the freedoms we enjoy can create for us.

The parade participants and the crowds that cheered, laughed, and felt a lump in their throat as they stood for the honor guards made the World’s Smallest Parade - the 2011 Aptos’ Fourth of July parade - once more a community celebration… and a celebration of community!

While just some of those who took the time and had the pah to be in the parade are being honored as winners various categories - We all were winners! This year it be you! Start planning now to surprise and entertain us 2013 edition of the World’s Smallest Parade.

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Last year’s 2011 Parade Judges: Ellen Pirie (County Supervisor 2nd District) • Terry Hancock (Attorney) • Patrice Edwards (Publisher Times Publishing Group) • Rita Law (Owner/Broker, Kendall & Potter Realty)

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First Prize: KPIG Radio • Judges’ Choice: IGS Aquariums, Inc. • Most Patriotic: Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW Post 10110) • Most Unique: E Clampus Vitus

Bands

First Prize: The Dew Wopps • Judges’ Choice: Seacliff Environmental Services & Construction • Most Colorful: Watsonville Community Band

Cars

First Prize: Tom & JoAnn Martindale • Most Patriotic: Gary Evans • Most Unique: Ralph Moceo

Children Groups

First Prize: Aptos Little League 8-9, 10-11, 11-12 • Judges’ Choice: Cabrillo Crushers • Most Patriotic: Cub Scouts Pack 676 • Most Unique: Orchard School

Floats

Judges Choice: Kendall and Potter • Most Original: Masonic Youth of Santa Cruz County • Best of Theme: Paul & Carol Benuin

Individual

First Prize: 1904 Oldsmobile • Second Prize: Michael Monte • Third Prize: 1948 Ford Woodie • Fourth Prize: Taylor Burdiac

Pets

Best Costumes: Woofers & Walkers • Cutest: Daniel Ambrose • First Prize: Monterey Bay Dog Training Club • Judges’ Choice: Santa Cruz Pony Rides

Trucks

First Prize: Santa Cruz Follies • Most Patriotic: Yankee Doodle Dandy Crew • Most Unique: Christ Lutheran Church

Schools

Most Spirited: CYT Santa Cruz • Best of Theme: June Bug’s Gym

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