First, I would like to congratulate Beau Pugh, "float chairman" who took the late ricky starkey's dream to build this float and making his dream come alive by showing the IISA board of directors a way to raise money for our charities and get the job done. It is thinking like this that keeps the gibtown club strong. The float is well on its way to bringing in plenty of scratch. Instead of just spending money our goal is spend it, if you can get a return to keep this club alive and strong. The scholarship is the first to receive profits made from the float.
The day parade grossed over $13,000 on admissions only. Riders and walkers were charged $$125.00 to ride or walk. you received krewe beads, shirt,throwing beads,unlimited draft beer. cocktails were an additional 25.00 wristband for all you could drink.extra beads were sold on board.
Like i mentioned before, Beau was under a lot of pressure to even get ready for the parades. a bunch of behind the scenes work needed to be done just to get accepted.all this while his wife tara was giving birth to their first child. nothing like added pressure. I'm sure Beau will be the first to tell you none of this would have been possible without the generous donations and hard work by many, man,. dedicated hardworking members too numerous to mention.
One donation I will put some pressure on beau to get will be from Marianne Reithoffer. While everyone on the float had shower cheap shower curtain hooks on their bead belts. Bob Pugh had high tech quick release bead holders givin to him by marianne. They were Reithoffer key chain holders. lol
The IISA float won best association float which guarantees acceptance into next year's parade. This is something that is not taken lightly by the parade officials. Every float fights for acceptance every year, it is not a given if you've been there before. We were also asked to be in 2 other parades. and working on getting into this year's night parade.
Floating To Victory
Krewe officials announced the following parade winners:
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General Commercial Float: Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
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National Commercial Float: Southwest Airlines
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Cities Float: New Port Richey
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Krewe Float: Unsinkable Krewe of Molly Brown
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Environmentally Sensitive Float: Anheuser-Busch Clydesdales
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Association Float: Independent Showmen’s Association
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Grand Prize: Rough Riders
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Special Award: Get A Life Marching Band
Powered by TECNAVIA ©2008 Media General Inc. All Rights Reserved 01/27/2008 our float was so much fun we had members of other krewe's joining our float, and we picked up hitchhikers from a float that broke down along the way.
again i want to emphasise that spending at gibtown is being focused on projects that will bring members together for a good time and raise enough money to cover any expenses and put money into our charities. this project is a definite WINNER.
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