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September
2004 Edition
PRESIDENT’s
MESSAGE:
Another month has come
and gone and fortunately the weather was better and we missed the
hurricanes that did such devastation to our friends in Florida. I hope
you will join me in keeping our Florida friends in your prayers and
thoughts. Well since our last newsletter I have had my surgery and am
back in the mix. I want to thank all of you for your thoughts, prayers,
E-mails, cards and phone calls. It is most heartwarming to know that
the festival and fair people can offer support to each other in a time
of need. I have lost about 76 pounds since July 28th, and am
still losing. My meals could starve a bird, but since I have a brain
like a bird, I don’t seem to miss the food I used to love. But lookout
after February, I’ll be able to eat normal 2food again, just not as much
as before.
I have not had the opportunity to
travel for the past month, but will be seeing many of you on the road
and at Fairs and Festivals in the coming months. I know our Convention
Coordinator has been working hard on the upcoming convention. He has
his committees in place, and all are working to make this convention
another grand success. If you feel like you want to assist, contact
Rob, I know he will never turn down any help.
Our next Board Meeting will be on
October 30, at the Louisiana Catfish Festival Building in DesAllemands,
at 10:00 a.m. Kurt Dempster, our District # 7 Director and his crew
from the Catfish Festival have graciously offered their facility for the
meeting, and as usual will have a meal fit for royalty. So hopefully we
will see you at the meeting.
As for now, I am feeling somewhat
tired. I wish you all the very best for your festivals and fairs and
your families as well. Keep a smile on your face, a song in your heart,
and work hard to make your event a complete success.
Thanks again to all of you for your
thoughts and Prayers during my illness.
S/Warren Deemer
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Vice President’s Message
STEPPING
OUT WITH LAFF
My top hat and cane are ready and my
shoes are being polished as I type this message. …I’m getting ready for
“STEPPING OUT WITH LAFF” February 17-20, 2005 at the Holiday Inn
Select (formerly the Radisson Hotel) in Baton Rouge.
I want to say a very big “thank you”
to the Washington Parish Fair and Kaye Ladner for hosting our L.A.F.F.
Board meeting on Saturday, July 24th. The accommodations and
meal were well worth the drive from Lake Charles. For those of you who
have not had the opportunity to tour this wonderful site, please make
every effort to attend this October for the Washington Parish Free
Fair. You will not be disappointed in any way I promise you. Again,
thanks Kaye and staff for your continued support of L.A.F.F. and your
gracious hospitality.
My month has been filled with
grandchildren and remodeling my daughter’s home and making arrangements
for Convention 2005. On August 21st, we will be heading to
the Frog Festival Queen’s Pageant in Rayne. On August 31st,
we will be heading to Palm Springs, California for the MRS. AMERICA
Pageant to cheer on our former L.A.F.F. Queen of Queens, Michelle
Thompson Mudd.
We are now coming into prime fair
and festival time as the fall approaches. Our calendar is filled with
many wonderful events and spending time with great people. We will be
heading up North to make new friends, and heading east to visit with
long standing old friends. If we can help you with anything, please do
not hesitate to contact us.
Our next board meeting will be
hosted by the Louisiana Catfish Festival in DesAllemands on October 30th.
If you have any topics you would like discussed or if you would just
like to visit, please give us a call. We are your Board
and we are here to serve YOU.
Wishing each and every one a very
successful and profitable event,
S/Rob
Piraro
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SECRETARY’s REPORT
By now,
you should have received this year’s member handbook. I want to thank
past president J. H. Martin and his crew at Franklin Press for the
help. By the way, don’t blame J. H., I picked the color – to play off
Rob’s elegant theme of a 1930’s “STEPPING OUT
WITH LAFF”, I offer an “over the top” touch
with the member’s handbook. Well at least you should not lose something
that color.
Information on this year’s Marketing Awards will be out soon.
Watch for that information, under separate cover. Please take the time
to enter.
Want a
write up of your event, information about your pageant (or queen), or
other LAFF related news in your newsletter? {See information of
“Festival in the Park” in this issue.} Submit your information to me at
laffadupre@yahoo.com or at 2402 Elizabeth St., Thibodaux
70301. I need the information by the 20th of the month for
the next newsletter. Also, please check the web site for new postings.
In addition, we are asking for your event to submit a picture of your
queen for the web site….www.laffnet.org
S/ Al
Dupré
From
(Past President) Monsignor J. Anthony Luminais – on the occasion of the
50th anniversary of his ordination to the Priesthood and
LAFF’s participation in the celebration.
– To the
Officers & Members of LAFF - “You certainly helped make June 5, 2004 the
happiest day in my life since June 5, 1954. You will always be in my
priestly prayers!” - Monsignor Luminais
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District #3 Director
District III workshop held on July
31, 2004 was very successful. Without the assistance of several
individuals I would not have had such a great workshop. I would first
like to thank the City of Rayne for the use of the newly constructed
Green Room. Thanks to the Rayne Chamber of Commerce for securing the
building, thank you Vickie, Jimmy, Kelly and Debbie. To the presenters
of the workshop, Cheryl, Gail, Dennis, Byron, Neil, Barbara and Francis,
thank you for giving up your time. Twenty-Two members were present two
new members of LAFF (St. Martinville Pepper) and two Queens attended
Lauren, and Charmine with the Frog Festival. I would also like to thank
the cooks, as the meal was delicious. Thanks, Donna, Natalie, Neil and
Lucy Lu our Miss Guided Queen who assisted with opening cans of tomato
sauce.
During the first six months I have
been very busy traveling the District III area. I have traveled to
various fairs and festivals and have always been welcomed and provided
with great hospitality. I have attended so far 16 pageants, 14 Board
Meetings and 14 festivals. District III is a very busy district with
its fairs and festivals.
Both my wife (Natalie) and I would
like to thank all of the festivals for always welcoming us. We are here
to help in any way possible, so if you need just call us.
District III ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
S/Dennis C. Mouton - D3D
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A CALL FOR PRINGLE CANS
We are in need of 100 Pringle
potato chip cans for Convention 2005. Please save them for us and get
them to your district reps for our October 30th meeting or
give me a call and we will get them somehow. Call me at 337-478-2355 or
by Email:
robpiraro@aol.com
Thanks,
Janet Piraro
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LOOKING FOR FORMER QUEEN OF QUEENS INFORMATION
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Janet Piraro
In my attempt to compile an accurate
record of L.A.F.F. Queen of Queens, I have received the names of
Miss Bridgett Landry as 1985 Queen of Queens and Miss
Sharon Harb as 1986 Queen of Queens but I do not know which fair
or festival they represented. If anyone knows these young ladies or
what event they represented, please let me hear from you. I know that
Sharon Harb crowned Lisa Roberts as 1987 Queen of Queens. Lisa
represented the Louisiana Fur and Wildlife Festival.
2004 Taryn Sanford
Louisiana Railroad days
2003 Clara Victorian
Boggy Bayou Festival
2002 Sara St. Pierre
Bogalusa Fest. in the Park
2001 Courtney Tatman
Louisiana Fur & Wildlife
2000 Keely Cabra
West Louisiana Forestry
1999 Kristi Lynn O’Quin
Louisiana Cotton Festival
1998 Summer Leigh
Parker Louisiana Fur & Wildlife
1997 Anne Katherine Lené
Louisiana Cattle Festival
1996 Stacey Fontenot
Contraband Days
1995 Gina Landry
Breaux Bridge Crawfish
1994 Michelle Morris
Gheens Bon Mangagé Fest
1993 Michelle Thompson
Calcasieu Cameron Fair
1992 Jennifer Romero
Louisiana Cattle Festival
1991 Candance Bowden Cajun
Heritage Festival
1990 D’Lane Wimberly
Louisiana Cotton festival
1989 Monica Hargett
Delcambre Shrimp Festival
1988 Sherry Smith
Kentwood Dairy Festival
1987 Lisa Roberts
Louisiana Fir & Wildlife
1986 Sharon Harb
Not known at this time
1985 Bridgett Landry
Not known at this time
1984 information needed
1983 Rhonda Gainey
Louisiana Strawberry Fest
1982 Penny Riggs
S. W. La. St. Fair & Trade
1981 Jacki Ewing
Contraband Days
1980 Alisa Langlois
Contraband Days
1979 Laura David
Contraband Days
1978 Phyliss Kelly
East Baton Rouge Fair
1977 Lauren Delaroderie
Dixie Darling Festival
1976 Lee Ann Gossett
Calcasieu Cameron Fair
1975 information needed
1974 Rene Sherrell Duplechin
Int. Rice Festival
1973 Johnnie Ruth Young
Church Point Centennial
1972 through 1959
information needed
1958 Pauline Sanders
Louisiana Oil Queen
Member News!
The
Bogalusa Chamber of Commerce’s 18th Annual "Festival in the Park" takes
place September 24 - 26, 2004. The Arts and Crafts Festival lines the
tree-shaded roadway of picturesque Cassidy Park, bordered by the Bogue
Lusa Creek and located on Willis Avenue in Bogalusa, Washington Parish,
Louisiana.
All three days there's something for everyone:
Children's entertainment, canoe and pony rides, stage entertainment, the
"Duck Race" (with a chance to win $1000 first place!), and over 60
booths full of crafts, antiques, artwork and commercial exhibits. The
Festival has a new entertainment this year: the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack
show that will be performing creek side and in the Bogue Lusa Creek.
Craft vendor applications are available, with prices
starting at $25; wood crafts and furniture, bath products, plants,
dolls, antiques, ceramics and glassware are just a few of the things
usually available. Non-profit groups are given a discount rate on
arts/crafts or children's activity booths; call to see if your group is
eligible. Local businesses are encouraged to set up a commercial booth
to show their products in a convenient location with lots of foot
traffic!
Double D Meat Co. is one of
the Festival’s sponsors, giving us a featured Louisiana food, with the
addition of their DD hot and mild smoked sausage served up in a Sausage
Cook-off! Food booths are required to have at least one sausage item
and are automatically entered in the Cook-off; applications are
available for other entrants vying for the prize money. Food, snack and
drink booth applications are available at $250, $200 and $150. Food and
drinks from 10 concessions will offer festival favorites from funnel
cakes to frankfurters, from juices to jambalaya and everything else!
Coca-Cola is our drink sponsor, with other local sponsors so far for our
entertainment--Citizens Savings Bank, Mack Grubb’s Motors and
Weyerhaeuser, with others to be added.
The Festival features pageants for Queen, Princess, Deb
Miss, Junior Miss, Little Miss and Tiny Miss; with ages ranging from 3
to 23, for residents of Washington Parish. 2003-04 Festival in the Park
Queen Macauley Knight will be crowning the new royalty.
Entertainment features the music of VINCE VANCE and
THE VALIANTS who’ll headline on Saturday, with local acts starting
on Friday.
There's free admission and parking, but no dogs or ice
chests allowed, and no alcohol sold or allowed on site. This is a
family-oriented event that offers a lot to see, do, buy and enjoy in a
beautiful location!
For more information, call the Bogalusa Chamber of
Commerce at 985-735-5731; email
bogchamber@I-55.com
or fax 985-735-6707.
SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1POSTER
CONTEST RULES
1.
Subject of poster shall be: “My Fair/Festival”.
Name, location and date of event must be on poster.
2. Any
public, private, or parochial school student may participate.
3.
Poster will be judged in four categories:
A. Grades 1 - 3
B. Grades 4 - 6
C. Grades 7 - 9
D. Grades 10 - 12
4.
Poster must be displayed on 14" X 22" white poster paper. (½ sheet
of standard poster paper.)
5. All
work must be vertical. Nothing horizontal will be judged.
6. All
lettering must be free-hand. Do not use Stencils.
7.
Medium used shall be: Crayon; Water Color; Acrylics, Felt-Tip Pen; or
Oil. No Cut-outs nor Collage.
8.
First, Second, and Third place winners in each category are eligible for
state competition.
Limit of Twelve (12) posters per event.
9.
Posters will be judged and points awarded as follows:
Originality 35%
Theme 25%
Neatness 25%
Spelling 15%
10.
Poster Prizes:
Third Place $ 25.00
Second Place $ 50.00
First Place $ 75.00
One Best Overall $100.00
11.
Information cards (5X7 index cards) should include the following:
Name Address Telephone Parents
Category Fair/Festival
This
should be placed on the left top corner of poster in such a way that it
can be flipped over from front to back.
12. All
posters must be presented by 5:00 PM on Friday of the annual convention.
Chairman: Kaye Ladner, 27280 R. F. Ball Road Franklinton, LA 70438
985-848-5937 Fax: 985-839-9164
Email: wpfairlady@yahoo.com
ESSAY CONTEST
Theme:
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Life and Style of the 1930's
in Louisiana
Rules and
Regulations:
1.
Essay must contain between 500 and 800 words.
2. Name
of contestant MUST NOT be written on the essay but must be written on a
separate sheet and clipped, not stapled to the essay.
3. On a
separate sheet, contestant should follow this format:
Name: Address: Grade: Phone:
Parents’s Name: School Name: Fair/Festival Represented:
4.
Essay may be handwritten or typed.
5.
Spelling, grammar, phraseology, general interest, continuity and
adherence to theme will be determining factors for selecting the winning
essay.
6. The
categories: A. Grades 6 - 8; B. Grades 9 - 12.
7.
Information used from sources should be acknowledged in a bibliography.
8.
Pictures or diagrams can be included within contest of essay or in
appropriate appendix.
9.
Essay must be in the hands of Chairman no later than
January 6, 2004.
10.
Criteria for judging:
Content (adherence to theme) ........... 40%
Grammar (punctuation, capitalization) .. 25%
Continuity (introduction, body,
sentence structure, conclusion) .... 20%
Spelling ............................... 15%
11.
Essay Prizes (State Level)*
1st. $150 2nd. $100 3rd. $50
*All fairs should use this theme on the local level for
elimination purposes; only the top three winners should be submitted
on state level.
12. All
essays become the property of LAFF. The first place winners will be
published in a collection by groups.
Chairman: DAVID BOURDIER 985-395-3720
P. O. Box
762 Patterson, LA 70392
ATTENTION,
ATTENTION, ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All of you men out
there who want to reign as a Queen and experience the Rhinestone
Sisterhood, WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU! Be All that you can be..
We are in need of contestants to participate in our 3rd
Annual Womanless Pageant to be held on Thursday February 17, 2005 at our
Annual Convention/Queen of Queens Pageant.
Forms are available on the web-site. We would appreciate each festival
sending at least one contestant. The best news is that we are waiving
the entry fee. It is free of charge (what an incentive!). Dress
code: Please keep it rated PG-13
KEEP IT FUN AND SAFE
For more information, please
contact Dennis Mouton - Dist #3 Director
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EVENTS TO ATTEND
Get
Ready, Get Set……….GO!!!
September 2 - 6
Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival - Morgan City
September 3 - 5
Rayne Frog Festival - Rayne
September 10 - 12
River Parishes Fall Festival - Norco
September 11 - 12
Cajun Heritage Festival - Cut Off
September 14 - 18
Red River Parish Fair & Rodeo - Coushatta
September 15 - 17
Allen Parish Fair - Oberlin
September 17 - 18
Marthaville Good Ole Days - Marthaville
September 17 - 19
Lockport Fall Food Festival - Lockport
September 17 - 19
Natchitoches Meat Pie Festival - Natchitoches
September 18
Ragley Heritage & Timber Festival - Lake Charles
September 18 - 19
Evangeline Oil and Gas Festival - Evangeline
September 19
St. John the Baptist Family Festival - Boutte
September 21 - 25
Red River Parish Fair and Rodeo - Coushatta
September 23 - 26
Alligator Festival - Luling
September 24- 26
Cut Off youth Center Fair – Cut Off
September 24- 26
Festival in the Park - Bogalusa
September 25
St. Helena Parish Forest Festival - Greensburg
September 25
La Fete d’ Ecologie, Barataria-Terrebonne - Thibodaux
September 25
Creole Zydeco Festival - Branch
September 26
Ragley Heritage & Timber Festival - DeQuincy
October 1 - 3
St. Tammany Parish Fair - Covington
October 1 - 3
Cajun Country Festival - Labadieville
October 1 - 3
LA Cattle Festival & Fair - Abbeville
October 1 - 3
Gretna Heritage Festival - Gretna
October 2
Arpadhon Hungarian Settlement Cultural Assn - Albany
October 2 - 9
Red River Revel Arts Festival - Shreveport
October 2 - 9
Red River Reel Arts Festival - Shreveport
October 4 - 10
Tangipahoa Parish Free Fair - Amite
October 5 - 9
Beauregard Parish Fair – DeRidder
October 5 - 10
Livingston Parish Fair
October 5 - 10
Louisiana Cotton Festival - Ville Platte
October 5 - 10
North Louisiana Cotton Festival & Fair - Bastrop
October 6 - 10
St. Tammany Parish Fair - Covington
October 8 - 10
Sorrento Boucherie Festival - Sorrento
October 8 - 10
Bridge City Gumbo Festival – Bridge City
October 9
Jennings Alive - Jennings
October 10
Louisiana Tournoi De La Ville Platte - Ville Platte
October 14 - 16
International Rice Festival - Crowley
October 15 - 17
International Acadian Festival - Plaquemine
October 16 - 17
Madisonville Wooden Boat Festival
October 17
Kiwanis Club of St. Martinville Pepper Festival
October 20-23
Washington Parish Free Fair - Franklinton
October 19 - 24
Calcasieu Cameron Parish Fair - Sulphur
October 21 - 24
Tri-Parish Fair and Festival - Eunice
October 22 – 24
LA. Gumbo Festival - Chackbay
October 22 - 24
Hammond Fest - Hammond
Oct. 22 - 24
St. John Parish Andouille Festival -
LaPlace
October 22 - November 7
State Fair of Louisiana - Shreveport
October 27 - 31
Louisiana Yambilee - Opelousas
October 28 - November 7
Greater Baton Rouge State Fair - Baton Rouge
October 29 - 31
French Food Festival - Larose
October 30 - 31
Lecompte Pie Festival - Lecompte
Remember,
our 2005
Convention theme:
“Stepping out with L.A.F.F.”
Holiday Inn Select - Baton Rouge
February 17 – 20, 2005
Make your plans to
attend
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