QUARTZ HILL LOOKS FORWARD TO ANNUAL ALMOND BLOSSOM FESTIVAL.Byline: Daily News Staff This weekend, Quartz Hill residents will celebrate the 50th anniversary Almond Blossom Festival The Almond Blossom Festival is an annual arts, social, and entertainment festival held every year on the first weekend of August at Willunga, South Australia, Australia. , named after the almond orchards that once surrounded the town. Included will be a reunion of former Miss Quartz Hills Quartz Hills () is an arcuate group of mainly ice-free hills and peaks standing immediately south of Colorado Glacier along the west side of Reedy Glacier. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. , Quartz Hill Little Misses, former Almond Blossom almond blossom of Israel. [Flower Symbolism: WB, 7: 264] See : Flower Or Plant, National Parade grand marshals, and past presidents and directors of the Quartz Hill Chamber of Commerce. ``We're really excited about this,'' chamber President Jan Tatangelo said of the reunion. ``We have a past community queen from 1951, one from 1953, two from 1955 - one girl got married, so the first princess became queen.'' Featuring carnival-style rides and games, an antique car show, arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. , foods and a variety of entertainment, the festival will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at George Lane County Park, 5520 W. Ave. L-8. The Almond Blossom Parade will start at 10 a.m. Saturday, running north along 50th Street West from Avenue M to Avenue L-8. The annual pet parade will begin at 9 a.m. at 50th Street West and Avenue M. Grand marshal will be Curt Crawford, a longtime community activist. The former queens and chamber officials will ride on two floats and a Wells Fargo stagecoach stagecoach, heavy, closed vehicle on wheels, usually drawn by horses, formerly used to transport passengers and goods overland. Throughout the Middle Ages and until about the end of the 18th cent. for the parade, then mingle with the crowd Saturday at the festival. Quartz Hill Women's Club will serve a pancake breakfast from 6 to 10 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church First Baptist Church may refer to many churches: Canada
Family entertainment for the two-day festival will include the Quartz Hill Jazz Band, Boogie Mamas and Big Band-style Night Wind on Saturday, along with a car show, a pie baking contest and a Desert Stars Dance Studios performance. Sunday performances will include the rock band Goldfish, Quartz Hill Karate, Satin and Spurs, Tyne Country Line Dancing, and the Viper Drill Team and Drum Squad of Quartz Hill. For more information on the event, call (661) 722-7780. |
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