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May 29 - June 1, 2008
The First Annual Flying Fish Festival was quite a
success. The museum's kids activity booth hosted close to 400 kids over
the three days! Here are a few photos from the event.
Ada Blanche Wrigley Schreiner enjoyed
meeting the Flying Fish Mascot, Gil. Blanny graciously
rededicated the historic flying fish sightseeing boat, the
Blanche W. which was named after her by her grandfather, William
Wrigley Jr. After the rededication ceremony on Friday evening
the full boat plied the waters along the coast and dozens of flying
fish greeted the passengers.
Hundreds of kids enjoyed learning about
flying fish while making their own Flying-Fish-On-A-Stick,
postcards, fishy jewelry and more. Thanks to all of the
volunteers who helped!
Festival attendees enjoyed watching the
3-day process of creating this gorgeous sand castle!
Professional artists spent hours painstakingly forming and carving
this castle with its delicate spires and towers.
6th Annual TELETHON
November 13, 2007
LIVE on Avalon's local cable station
Channel 3 thanks to the generosity of the the folks at Catalina
Cable. Each year we feature segments with historical video,
interviews with old-timers, live entertainment and more! This
year, join us for Spencer Davis, historical footage of the damaging
ocean storm of 1988, a tour of Black Jack Mines with William Wrigley
Jr. filmed in 1926, Kids at Play and so much more. This year
over $70,000 was raised through this event! Thank you to all
who contributed!
Click here to watch the 2007
Telethon:
(photo
above shows emcee Wayne Griffin interviewing Bruce Belland,
co-founder of The Four Preps and co-writer of "26 Miles (across the
sea)," at our 2006 Telethon)
