Big Fun at the Bigfoot Jambore & Don’t miss the Parade Sunday!!

Alyssa Allgiers was crowned Bigfoot Queen on Friday night at the Happy Camp River Park. Alyssa was escorted by Travis Ward as they danced the Queen’s dance. Her royal court of Princesses included, Julia Peters escorted by her dad, Abigail Eadie escorted by Kris Nelson, Frankie Snyder escorted by Cody Haskell and Cierra Silva escorted by Brandon Tripp. The girls were all lovely and handed flowers by the two little flower girls as former Bigfoot Queen of the Jamboree, Bailee Allec placed the tieras.

2013 Bigfoot Jamree Queen

2013 Bigfoot Jamree Queen


The parade begins about eleven o:clock on Sunday!
We hope to see you at the Happy Camp River Park this
Labor Day Weekend!

Bigfoot Jamboree Schedule is Out!!

The annual Bigfoot Jamboree is held at the Happy Camp River Park in Happy Camp, California. This year’s event will feature great entertainment for kids and adults. Don’t miss out this Labor Day Weekend, starting August 30th, 2013 through September 1st, 2013. The 47th Annual Event will provide great music, games, prizes, the parade and a whole lot of fun! We hope to see you and your family and friends at the River Park!

The Happy Camp Coordinating Council has created a website to connect with the community regarding this important event. In order to continue this event in the future we need the support of the community, both in participation and donations. For more information go to the website:
http://bigfootjamboree.org/Schedule_of_Events.html

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47th Annual Bigfoot Jamboree is Coming!

The River Park is open to the public to begin to celbrate the 47th annual Bigfoot Jamboree.at
6pm:

6pm: is also the time when the 103,9 Radio Remote Kickoff Event. This is sponsored by the Karuk Tribe Housing Authority.

6pm: Duke Arwood is also going to arrange a Horseshoe Tournament and that will also begin at the beginning.
6pm:Mushball tounametn will begin at the ball field. 3rd Annual Mushball games will continue throughout the weekend.

7pm:Happy Hour.

7:30pm:Alan Dyar will announce the Bigfoot Jamboree Coronation. After the coronation, and the Queen’s Dance there will be the drawing for the raffle items. How exciting a 42″ flat screen television, a hp laptop pc, and a Craftsman miter saw and numerous other wonderful prizes..

9pm:until 12 am:Friday Dance will be bu DJ VIP Entertainment.

Saturday:
11 am. The Park Opens – Concessions, Vendor Booths

11 to 5 will be Kids Day at the Park!
Water Slide! Mechanical Bull! Obstacle Course! Bounce House!
Sponsored by Marble Mountain Gift Co. and Clinic Pharamacy

Beer Booth Opens

1 pm will be the Cupcake Wars Contest
Fundraiser for the Happy Camp High Cheerleading Squad

4 to 8 will be the Karaoke Contest
Cash Prize of $200, only $5 to enter!
Sponsored by Karuk Tribe and The Pizza House

6 pm will be the Poker Booth
Presented by the State of Jefferson Brotherhood

Horseshoe Tournament Continues

6pm there will be Lawn Mower Races
Presented by the State of Jefferson Mower Racing Club

9 to 12 Saturday Night Dance
Featuring LIVE music from “The Genuine Draft
SUNDAY
8 to 10 am Pancake Breakfast
Presented by the AAU Basketball Team

9:30 am will be the 5k Bigfoot Dash Race begins at the River Park Pavilion.
Race-day Registration starts at 8:30am at the Pavilion

9)40 to 10:30 Parade Registration and Staging by the post office.
11 am Bigfoot Parade – Theme is Disney Movies!
Grand Marshalls ~ Ms. Dorie & Greg MacDonald

12 o’clock the Park Opens – Beer Booth, Concessions, Vendor Booths

12 to 4 Kids Bounce House
Fundraiser for the Happy Camp High Cheerleading Squad

12:30 Be sure to be at the Pavilion for the Parade Awards Presentation
Non-profit float Award – $500 Sponsored by Double J Sports & Spirits
Additional awards for Best Business, Best Individual & Best Equestrian

12:30 Lawn Mower Races
Presented by State of Jefferson Mower Racing

1 to 4 LIVE Music from “The Fret Drifters”

2 o;clock begins the 5th Annual Ducky Derby
$5 each or 3 for $10, Cash Prizes! Purchase ducks all weekend at River Park
47th Annual Bigfoot Jamboree ends at 4 pm

The Happy Camp Coordinating Council has put on the Annual Bigfoot Jamboree since a few years after it’s beginning as a Square Dance event and their official website for uptodate announcements is www.bigfootjamboree.org

Town Meeting: Jefferson Proposal Discussions

Happy Camp is our town!

Happy Camp is our town!

Thanks to those who came out for the Community Solutions and Neighborhood Watch meeting Monday evening. It was great to have Deputy David Nye with us again and he brought Deputy Dennis Mellum with him!

Deputy Mellum has been Deputy Dare for most of our children and was involved with Happy Camp Neighborhood Watch when it was tremendously successful in the past. You will not want to miss the September 9th meeting when a chairperson is elected and Neighborhood Watch launches forth with renewed enthusiasm!!

Thanks to those who came out and supported the Town Meeting the previous week also. It was great to have our Sheriff, Jon Lopey, with us and despite the good size crowd, he committed to let everyone who had a topic to discuss would be heard. This was appreciated.

Even though the meeting began at 6 and didn’t wrap up until 9:30 there were many things discussed that needed to be brought up for solutions. Thanks to Doreen and Becky for posting information, as well as Nadine who e-mailed to get people informed. So grateful when Becky Tiraterra brought in platters of watermelon and grapes! Javabob brought the coffee machine ready to go, Dan Effman had BBQ hot dog slices and other Chamber members provided the cookies. Doreen made the lemonade and we were so grateful for the Grange providing the place to meet. Thank you Ruth!

If you are curious about the Jefferson proposals, be sure to check out the information at the Grange tonight (Tuesday evening) at 6 at the Grange.

Tomorrow school begins for the elementary school, Wednesday, August 21 while the high schoolers start next Monday, August 26th. Still it is that time of year!

Do you remember all of those first days of school?… What are your memories of heading back to school? In An Old Man’s Thought of School, Walt Whitman writes,

“An old man’s thought of school,
An old man gathering youthful memories and blooms that youth itself cannot.
Now only do I know you,
O fair auroral skies–O morning dew upon the grass!
And these I see, these sparkling eyes,
These stores of mystic meaning, these young lives,
Building, equipping like a fleet of ships, immortal ships,
Soon to sail out over the measureless seas,
On the soul’s voyage.”

Happy Camp

Happy Camp, as seen from the Town Trail

Seiad Day is Saturday, August 24th. Don’t miss the parade there!!

Bigfoot Jamboree is Saturday, August 30, 31 and September 1st which is the Disney parade! (See bigfootjamboree.org)

Dear Mad’m Days is coming soon, October 11-13 (friendsofdearmadm.com)

Thank you for your active interest in our community!!

Happy Camp Town Meeting Tuesday

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Most Important coming event is the Town Meeting at the Grange August 13th with Jon Lopey, our sheriff. Please come and bring a citizen of the community with you!!

Last week the Happy Camp Coordinating Council began meeting each week as they tie everything together for putting on the 47th Annual Bigfoot Jamboree on Labor Day weekend. This year has some really special activities planned for families. Saturday will be a very special Kids time. In preparation you are invited to get the picture to color the coloring page can be downloaded from the website, www.bigfootjamboree.org under Events/Kids Day. You can bring it to Double J, Parry’s Market, or Scott Valley Bank who will hang up the pictures until they take them to the River Park, Saturday August 31st? You may also bring it to the park for the Kids Day events. The winning boy and girl will receive a brand new bicycle. So if you have a child 3 to 8 years old, be sure to have them enter the coloring contest.

Winning raffle tickets have some great prizes this year so keep your eye out for the Bigfoot Princesses, the girls selling raffle tickets.

Light a Spark in our Community & slay apathy!

Light a spark!


by Judy Bushy
Isn’t it amazing the conflicts that we have these days!! Seems hard to discuss with anyone that disagrees with a person’s viewpoint. Learning about each others viewpoints seems to me to be the best way to get the balanced view of a topic and proceed to coming up with solutions.

Dr. Blue quoted the historian Alexander Tyler, professor at Edinburgh Scotland back in the early 1800s. He was talking about the fall of the Athenian Republic 2000 years earlier. He said, “A democracy is always temporary in nature. It simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate who promises the most benefits from the public treasury. With the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to lose fiscal policy which is always followed by a dictatorship.”

No nation in the history of the world has lasted forever, according to historian Alexander Tyler. I wonder if his views were as apparent in his day as they are in our own We have been very grateful that our forefathers came here out of bondage, to spiritual faith to great courage, and achieved liberty and have had such great blessings and abundance in this nation. We are going through some of the things that other countries have gone through when they have abundance and descend to complacency, to apathy and to dependence, which leads back into bondage.

So much has changed with our technology of the day. Dr. Royal Blue, who was telling about Alexander Tyler’s views, asked people listening to him each morning to let him know if they are listening by Streaming audio from Redding to the uttermost parts of the world via Internet. It is amazing that people around the world who can hear the same talk.

There’s an old saying, “Dead wood can light a great blaze if it comes in contact with a little spark.’ We hate to see that when it makes a great wildfire that threatens homes and towns, such as we are seeing this week on the Salmon River, Sawyers Bar, and over the hill in the same area that the Biscuit Fire was years ago. I remember visiting Dan when he was working at Lake Selma, the same place that the Incident Command for the Complex is now stationed.

Today, you can be the spark to make a difference in the hearts & Lives of our neighbors. Volunteer to make a difference. Attend Town Meetings like the one Tuesday, August 13th with Sheriff Lopey, whatever your vies so that you can be well informed and express your viewpoint. He was elected to be the Sheriff of all Siskiyou County citizens. Take part in respectful debate.

Let’s not be complacent but light a spark by using the wwisdom and kind respectful words which may just be the spark to light a blaze for good among our friends and neighbors along the Klamath. Light a spark!!

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