Dash for a dress Saturday.
But you may want to get there Friday.
A Bellevue radio station hosts a wedding dress dash at 8 a.m. Saturday at Comcast Arena, 2000 Hewitt Ave. in Everett. Each dress costs only $150.
Brides are encouraged to show up early. At the event last year, ladi
es were camping out near the entrance five hours before the doors opened.
There should be more than 500 gowns on sale. Sales benefit Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation that aims to grant wishes to those with cancer.
Line up outside the Southeast doors of the arena. Admission is free.
The dress dash kicks off the eighth annual Northwest Bridal Showcase featuring more than 100 local vendors at Everett Comcast Arena. Those attending the dress dash, organized by KQMV (92.5 FM) may purchase a discount ticket to the Northwest Bridal Showcase for $9.25 and get early “preview” admission at 9:25 a.m. Northwest Bridal Showcase is planned from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the arena.
Admission is $12.
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After 13 years as president of the Pacific International League, in which the Everett Merchants baseball team plays, Steve Konek Sr. is retiring.
“I am choosing to concentrate my efforts on Vietnam projects for now while I am still physically able,” Konek said. “The mentally able part went a while ago, so I do not worry about that part.”
He was kidding, of course.
We wrote about Konek Oct. 9, 2009. The Arlington man helps an orphanage in Vietnam. He served his country in Vietnam in 1966, ’67 and ’68 as an Army paratrooper. Konek now supports Vinh Son II Orphanage in Kontum.
The family man is a groundskeeper for the Marysville School District.
He will continue his support of a benefit baseball game every summer at Everett Memorial Stadium and his support of a library for Vietnamese and Vietnam’s Montagnard children.
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Janice Armstrong, director of Washington International Girl, says this isn’t a beauty pageant.
“Most people think ‘Toddlers and Tiaras,’ but the real truth behind pageants is not screaming babies and tyrannical parents,” Armstrong says. “The International Girl Youth Development Program is a family-oriented pageant system dedicated to providing inspiration and ambition to all its participants.”
“Toddlers and Tiaras” is a reality TV show about young girls and their parents who do pageants, mostly in the southwest part of our country.
See for yourself if the Washington event is advertised appropriately.
It’s billed as a “wholesome” pageant.
A preliminary event for International Girl Youth Development System is planned for 9 a.m. Jan. 22 at Garden City Grange, 800 Second St. in Snohomish.
Tickets are $5 at the door. Please bring five items to be donated to care packages sent to Afghanistan.
For more information, call 253-292-0597 or go to www.internationalgirlpageant.com.
Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451, oharran@heraldnet.com.
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