Volunteers keep glimmer in Gold Dust Days
Published 12:01 am Monday, March 7, 2011
GOLD BAR — The community festival needs more volunteers.
The Gold Dust Days event may see changes this summer because some volunteers are leaving the project.
That’s why the Sky Valley of Chamber, which is organizing the event, is looking for new people interested in helping out.
The first planning meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday in Gold Bar City Hall, 107 Fifth St.
The festival has about 25 volunteers, but at least 10 more are needed to keep the festival operating as it has in the past, chamber director Debbie Copple said.
More will be needed for the festival to grow.
“We are trying to spread the work and help the volunteers make it through the festival,” Copple said.
This is the fifth year Gold Dust Days has been celebrated. It is a community heritage festival with a focus on history that includes musicians, vendors and a parade.
The festival is planned for the last weekend of July.
Copple said she believes people have not stepped forward to help because they did not know how they could be involved.
“Everybody can do something,” she said.
The festival needs volunteers to clean the streets, provide security and help with the parade. Volunteers can be from the Sky Valley area and of all ages. Copple hopes to attract a younger wave of volunteers to help with the physical part of the event.
“We need young muscle,” Copple said.
The city also wants to hear what the festival should add this year, Mayor Joe Beavers said.
The festival has been expanded in an attempt to attract more people from out of town. Also, some former residents plan on visiting relatives on the festival days, Beavers said.
Alejandro Dominguez: 425-339-3422; adominguez@heraldnet.com.
Join in
Gold Dust Days is having its first planning meeting at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Gold Bar City Hall, 107 Fifth St.
