The plans for an exciting new beaver festival this summer just got a lot more tangible. This week I turned in the Talmud-length application for a special event using the downtown park. When I say that the paperwork was 19 pages, you will think surely I exaggerate, but it takes a committed and self-employed civic person to host an event in our fine city. (For comparison, the application for special event in San Francisco is 18 pages less.)
With the application in, the insurance purchased, the restrooms booked, the vendors invited and the park paid for, we can focus our attention on getting your attention. Save the date! August 1st, 2009 from 12:30 to 6:30. So far we have arranged the Alhambra Valley Band, (which is composing a special beaver song!) and the Muir Station Jazz Band, and are looking for a middle group. Anyone have a great Mariachi contact? We also want a bag piper to play and mark the return of beavers to Scotland after 400 years.
So far our line-up of vendors and activities looks prodigious. I’ll keep you posted as the numbers grow, but we’re planning to do individual tiles for the children’s art project, so that they can be fired and added eventually to a “children of Martinez beaver wall”….
The perfect adornment for one of the dull cement bridges. We already have the tiles, the glaze, the training and the firing paid for, just need to work on the city permission part. I’m thinking after each child’s art tile is completed, they can sit down and jot a quick note to the mayor.
Repeat as necessary. Whadya think, too much?
