Raining Queen Diane oversees Rain Fest

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Queen Diane presided over a very blustery Official Pacific Northwest Rain Festival today.  With wind gusts of over 40 mph, the festival went on.  Some even thought they felt a drop or two of rain.  Above, the Raining Queen Diane pets the pug to see if it is wet or dry.  She pronounced it dry to the cheers of all present.  Dirty Dan Harris, aka Jim Rich, told us that meant only 8 more weeks of rain before spring.  All cheered again, for no particular reason.  Thats Dirty Dan at the microphone.  Others are Jody, on the left, and Taimi holding the pug ( it is her pet, after all) from the Ladies of the Evening Society - a very upright association of Historic Fairhaven.  The smiling top hatted fellow is Rich Bulman, a local artist of fine repute.  Click the photo for a larger view.

Lauren reads her poem for the annual Rain Poetry contest.  She won.  Actually, both she and the other contestant won first prize.  The judges decided what the heck, both poems were very good, were original and were about rain.  Fairhaven merchants donate the prizes and they are placed on a table.  Winners of the various contests simply look them over and choose something they can use.  It works. Another contest was a children’s rain gear modeling - but they were too shy for a decent photo.  They still got prizes. 

This was the 9th annual Rain Fest, first started when the Village Green was almost finished in 2003.  It is a fun but short - would you believe half hour - event that helps break the monotony of the gray rainy days of our Pacific Northwest winter.  After the Fest, all in attendance scatter to the fine coffee houses and wine bars of Fairhaven.  The Ladies of the Evening Society have participated each year and have decided to join Diane and help organize it next year.  It should be fun and we look forward to it.

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